Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?!
Answers: I checked the web and found out botanically a tomato is a fruit, but the Supreme Court ruled it a vegetable. So, my purpose of this question is to settle a debate between the hubby and I, by popular vote.
The courts cannot legislate something against basic FACT!
A tomato is FRUIT !! How people choose to use it cannot change that fact !
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Many people think of it as a vegetable but it's fruit. It has seeds inside and it has a high acidity level
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It Is a fruit, all fruits have seeds, for example, a lemon is a fruit, lime is not!!!!! :p
fruit because, you can boil veggies and tomatoes you can not boil in any way so i think tomatoes are fruits.
Tomatoes are diffently fruit as they grow above ground. Vegetable grow below ground...
It is a fruit.
itz a fruit!
yeah its like pluto that they made it not to be a planet :( poor pluto but yeah they say tomatos a fruit it taste good with some salt and lemon :D
it's actually a berry so that would class it as a fruit
It is a fruit
Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit.
As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often used as a vegetable.
So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.
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What determines if something is a fruit or vegetable?
A: A vegetable is described as "any herbaceous (non-woody) plant or plant part that is eaten with the main course rather than as a dessert. It usually has a bland taste."
Botanically the fruit is "the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, pineapple, etc." or " the edible part of a plant developed from a flower with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, banana, etc."
The confusion arises because the "vegetable" can have "fruit" which are the reproductive parts. The tomato is probably the only legally declared vegetable in a Supreme Court ruling in the early 1900's.
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