Are tomatoes Fruits or Vegetables? Why?!
Answers: It's for a project and i have no idea and i have to have an explanation why i think it's a fruit or vegetable...please give me ideas on or facts!!!
Here is what find out by Pauline:
The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a 'fruit', though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry is an example. 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, and a bean pod is also technically a fruit. The term 'vegetable' is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term 'fruit' may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.
They are veggies. i just leared that today. it because it can go with other things like a cheeseburger. you woln't put fruit on a burge.
fruit because it has seeds
Fruit - it has seeds - just cut one open if you aren't sure. Anything w/ seeds is a fruit.
fruit because it comes from a plant that BUDS
Scientifically they are fruits, but legally in the US they are vegetables for tax purpuses. The US Supreme Court decided this in May 10, 1893 in the case Nix vs. Hedden. They are also known as vegatables in the cooking business because of how they are used (as Mz. Rae-Mo alluded to).
Fruit, because fruits by definition have seeds.
Fruit coz it has seeds but it is taxed as a veggie! i dont know why!!
I think that you can call it both. However, tomatoes are used
chiefly as a vegetable but it's also known as a love apple.
tomatoes are vegetables......... because tomatoes are typically served as part of the salad or meal rather than at desert........ furthermore, vegetable is only a culinary term........ vegetables has no botanical meaning.........
totally fruit because there are seeds, and they grow from plants