Do you think the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable?

Question

lets settle it.  I think its a vegetable because you can cook with it and it tastes like a vegetable to me.

aMuse · Accepted Answer

Tomatoes are fruits, that are sometimes categorized as vegetables due to not being sweet. Vegetable is just a broad sweeping term for edible plants. It's more in reference to roots, shoots, and leaves. Fruit is the product of sexual reproduction in angiosperms. They arise from the fertilized ovaries of the flower. Fruits have seeds in them. Thus a tomato is a fruit.

Yeahhbro · Accepted Answer

It is a fruit because it comes from a tree from the top. Vegetables on the other hand are vegetables because their plant are not tall at all and they are close to the ground.

This is the scientific term...taste has little to do with it...because if that is the case, should sweet potatoes be frutis because they are sweet? What about baby carrots?

hungergames22 · Accepted Answer

Scientifically, it's categorized as a fruit.  But seriously, can you make marinara sauce from a grape?  I answered "other," mainly because I wanted to be different.  Like the tomato :)

sweet_18 · Accepted Answer

It's a magical fruit

Xx_DRE_xX · Answer

It doesn't really taste sweet to me except for when its made as ketup and we aswell tend to put that in salty things like fries or burgers. when its diced, usually goes in things like Burrtios, Deli Subs, Salads & stews. So seeingit as a fruit is beyond me.

Anonymous · Answer

i don't think, I KNOW it is a fruit, biologically it is an ovary. :) most fruits that are round with seeds inside or one big seed inside are actually female plant ovaries, hence they house the 'seed' ...the flower parts are the male parts often have have pollen 'sperm' stored in them.

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jmr2191 · Answer

Ask an geneticist and they will tell you that a tomato is a fruit, as is a green pepper. If it has seeds, it's a fruit. Vegetables have a different method of fertilization than fruits.

vishna · Answer

The only fruit I can eat the flesh of and enjoy. It's a fruit...if someone asks I would say fruit...way back when I thought it was a veggie..but way now now I deem it fruit :D

Cool-Relax · Answer

Tomatoes are classified as fruit. What's to settle? That's already been done.

cazza3 · Answer

Its a fruit, it contains its own seed. You can cook with coconut, raisins, olives, orange, ginger,pumpkin, etc, etc.

DutchAtheist · Answer

Botanically, it is a fruit. Gastronomically, it is a vegetable. Since I'm a man of science I'm sticking with fruit.

Anonymous · Answer

You asked a question and people were nice about answering it ,  Everyone didn't have to look the answer up .  I already knew ,  Don't ask questions if your going to be rude and drunk.

IHateMeganFox · Answer

I've always considered it a vegetable although I know it technically is a fruit.

SilentTearsz · Answer

Hey, It's a fruit because it has seeds in it. But I'm still refering to it as a veg.

TheGodEmperorLeto · Answer

I KNOW it's a fruit. It's a freaking fact. Anyone who says otherwise is just ignorant.

Transgressionista · Answer

I know its not, but to me it will always be a vegetable

Anonymous · Answer

In a scientific sense anything that contains a seed and is the product of a plant is a fruit. Therefore squash and greenbeans and peas are fruit too,scientifically. The vegetables are the other parts of the plants suck as the leaves, stems and roots. But in a culinary and grocery aspect a tomato is a vegetable.

Anonymous · Answer

its fruit. I couldn't care less if it tastes like vegetable 'cause there are other fruits that taste weirder.

Anonymous · Answer

I use to think it was a vegetable,  But a teacher told me it's considered a fruit.   If it has a seed in it ,  It will be considered a fruit .

LonelyandInTheDark · Answer

I love love love tomatoes.  I think it fits as a vegetable because of the reasons you gave, I eat it like a fruit as well...

josesmaf · Answer

Goes well with vegetables, but I've been told it's a fruit.

Anonymous · Answer

well I guess it's really a fruit but I always thought it was a vegetable before I found out it was a fruit. Call it what you want, I don't think it matters.

dudeman · Answer

vegetable is a culinary term, there is no such thing as a vegetable scientifically

doctorwhofan23 · Answer

It is a fruit by definition but that does not mean it will go in a fruit solid lol

Anonymous · Answer

It's been proven that it's a fruit, but to me it will always be a vegetable.

Anonymous · Answer

It grows out of the ground but it is classified a fruit.

Anonymous · Answer

Fruits are sweet and usually grow on trees, so tomato is a vegetable that looks like a fruit.

Anonymous · Answer

It is essentially a fruit but acts like a vegetable

wallaber · Answer

Treat it as a vegetable, know it's a fruit.

bijinbijinbijin · Answer

its a berry therefor it is a fruit

Deft_maiden · Answer

If it has seeds then it's a fruit!

kheserthorpe · Answer

I think its a vegetable, but know its a fruit.

WaitingAtTheDoor · Answer

It's a vegetable.

Anonymous · Answer

Fruit, but used like a veg

glitterberryalisa · Answer

veggie! letsbehonest

Toony · Answer

thats funny

vertigo1201 · Answer

Fruit.

Anonymous · Answer

POOBRUMS veggie

Anonymous · Answer

Vegetable

Anonymous · Answer

It's a fruit

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