Is tomato fruit or vegetable?

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Tomato
Where's the "human" option? 🙁

you know that you're really an apple, right? 😉

 

[edro]

A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.

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[Bryophyte]

Botanically, it is a fruit.
Culinarily, it is considered a vegetable.

 

[ThePresence]

So y'all put tomatoes in your fruit salad??

 

[Dacalo]

Looks like a fruit, tastes like a veggie, so it's lame

 

[xenocyd3]

weed has seeds too... is it a fruit?

 

[Judgement]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
So y'all put tomatoes in your fruit salad??

Yet another reason why I'll stick to my guns and always call it a vegetable 😀

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: edro13

A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.

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Ditto.

It is a fruit.

Koing

 

[ndee]

Is tomato fruit or vegetable?

It's a drama queen.

 

[m3lo]

Vegetable!!!!

 

[ABitTooSpicy]

What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

A vegetable is an edible part of a plant with a soft stem, and it might include the leaves (lettuce), roots (carrot), bulbs (garlic), stalks (celery), seeds (pea), tubers (potato), or flowers (cauliflower). A fruit is the mature ovary in a flowering plant; that fleshy part of the plant which contains the seeds. This would mean that tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and squashes are technically fruits, even though they are commonly thought of as vegetables.

FYI, there was actually a Supreme Court decision in 1893 that held a plant or plant part that is eaten as part of the main course is a vegetable, while the plant part that is eaten an an appetizer, dessert or out of hand is a fruit.

 

[Yossarian]

I've been eating ovaries?? OMFG

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: ndee
Is tomato fruit or vegetable?

It's a drama queen.

I prefer the term "attention whore," but to each his own.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand: I know the tomato is technically a fruit, but it really tastes like a vegetable to me. And you put it in vegetable soup. So I vote vegetable. Damn the biologists.

 

[Vic]

A tomato is a fruit, actually a berry.

 

[Colt45]

its a fruit, but i always call it a veggie

 

[Sephy]

Technically its a fruit but dammit its a vegetable!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Sephy
Technically its a fruit but dammit its a vegetable!

Damnit, carrots and onions and cabbage are vegetables!

Tomatoes OTOH are sweet and juicy. 🙂

 

[mpitts]

Doesn't matter.

Tomatoes = nasty.

 

[LOLyourFace]

It is classified as fruit but eats like a vegetable.

You don't see peopel putting strawberries and kiwis in their burger, salsa, pasta, etc...

 

[silverpig]

It's both.

The fruit is the fleshy ovary seedy part of a plant. Vegetables are plants. Fruits are a subset of vegetables.

 

[eplebnista]

Fruit

 

[Bassyhead]

fruit

 

[NumbaJuan]

i don't really care. i just like em 😀

 

[Sid59]

fruit .. but i prefer it as a veggie.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: ndee
Is tomato fruit or vegetable?

It's a drama queen.

I prefer the term "attention whore," but to each his own.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand: I know the tomato is technically a fruit, but it really tastes like a vegetable to me. And you put it in vegetable soup. So I vote vegetable. Damn the biologists.

that's what I actually meant 😉