For the record...is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

[flavio]

I just saw Busta Rhymes win a trivia game on Craig Kilborn answering the question "Name a vegetable any vegetable". He won with the answer "Tomato", which I think is wrong.

 

[Nohr]

It be a fruit.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Fruit.

 

[Zugzwang152]

fruits have visible and well-defined seeds (tomato), vegetables do not. that is the official way to determine.

 

[Shockwave]

So a banana is a vegetable??

 

[brtspears2]

Its a fruit.

Though I'm rather partial with the "does it cook well with onions test" to test if its a fruit or vegetable. Good taste = veggy, bad = fruit. Oranges and onions....bleck. Onions and potatoes.... its decent.

 

[brtspears2]

Interesting Read here

In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices.

 

[flavio]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
fruits have visible and well-defined seeds (tomato), vegetables do not. that is the official way to determine.

So a banana is a vegetable??

good question.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Its a fruit.

Though I'm rather partial with the "does it cook well with onions test" to test if its a fruit or vegetable. Good taste = veggy, bad = fruit. Oranges and onions....bleck. Onions and potatoes.... its decent.

Eggs IMHO need to be cooked w/ onions, what does that make an egg? 🙂🙂

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: flavio
I just saw Busta Rhymes win a trivia game on Craig Kilborn answering the question "Name a vegetable any vegetable". He won with the answer "Tomato", which I think is wrong.

"For the record...is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?"
Yes it is a fruit or vegetable,both, 😉

 

[white]

legally it's a vegetable and technically it's a fruit. that's what a law prof i spoke to said. but c'mon, this is the Craig Kilborn show.

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Nohr
It be a fruit.

 

[aircooled]

Fruit

 

[MC]

Vegetable

 

[billandopus]

Both.

C'mon guys ... does it HAVE to be either or? Not everything has to be black or white.

Think of the venerable tomato as being the Michael Jackson of the veggie/fruit world.

 

[gopunk]

http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solutions/horticulture/docs/tomato.html

Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. So is a watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber, and squash. A "fruit" is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds.

Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and nonwoody. Most fruits, from a horticulture perspective, are grown on a woody plant (apples, cherries, raspberries, oranges) with the exception of strawberries.

 

You'r a fruit, tomatoes are vegetables 😉

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Interesting Read here

In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices.

Supreme court pwn j00.

 

[dbzwukan]

Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Both.

C'mon guys ... does it HAVE to be either or? Not everything has to be black or white.

Think of the venerable tomato as being the Michael Jackson of the veggie/fruit world.

it is both....

think about it... greenpepper also have seeds...so it technically also is a fruit....

 

[akahai]

It's a Fruitable....🙂

 

[JupiterJones]

A fruit is from the reproductive parts of a plant (i.e. fruit of my loins)

A vegetable is from the body parts of the plant (root, stem, leaf, etc...)

 

[IGBT]

Fruitable...

 

[Jzero]

Culinarily speaking, it may be considered a fruit when eaten by itself or in a salad, but a vegetable when used a soup, sauce, stew, etc.

 

[aircooled]

Looks like the govenment says it "legally" a vegetable...

Tomato. Fruit or Vegetable

 

[flavio]

LOL...."legally"