Is a tomato an fruit or vegetable?!
It is also a fruit it terms of culinary talk because culinarily speaking, everything with either a sweet or sour taste is a fruit. Tomatoes generally have sweet tastes, so they are fruits.
Answers: a fruit - this is because scientifically speaking, anything that produces seeds is a fruit.
It is also a fruit it terms of culinary talk because culinarily speaking, everything with either a sweet or sour taste is a fruit. Tomatoes generally have sweet tastes, so they are fruits.
fruit
a fruit
It is a fruit. It is a fruit because of some archaic tax rule.
fruit - vitamin C
fruits have seeds so a fruit
Technically it's both. A fruit is the part of a plant that has the seeds in it. A vegetable is the part of the plant you eat. A tomato is both of them.
fruit cuz for the seeds it has.
A fruit cus it has seeds
"Marcie"'s answer didn't make any sense, no offense to her.
A fruit is the part of the plant that has seeds, yes. A vegetable, on the other hand, is any other part of the plant (leaves, roots, stems, flowers...)
A tomato is a fruit.
technically a fruit
its a Fruit
Hope this Answers your question.
Question - Why is a tomato a fruit and not a vegetable? More
generally, what is the difference between a vegetable and a fruit?
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Generally, a fleshy growth originating from a flower and carry seeds is
considered a fruit. So a gourd or cucumber or pea pod is a fruit too.
A potato fails because it does not come from the flower and is part of the
root, cabbage and spinach and is leaves and stems, etc.
Don Yee
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Please refer to previous answers to this famous question:
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solution...
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/f...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question143...
Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.
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Botanically speaking, anything that bears seeds is a fruit. The fruit forms
from the reproductive part of the plant, i.e., the flower. The ovary of the
flower becomes the fruit and inside the seeds form. So a tomato comes from
the flower and inside are the seeds. So it is a fruit. A nut is a seed and
the shell is the fruit. Anything from a part of the plant that is not the
flower is vegetative, i.e., does not reproduce. So leaves, stems and roots
are vegetables. So lettuce, carrots and potatoes are vegetables.
vanhoeck
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A fruit is a seed bearing structure derived from the flower, and is not
necessarily edible. A "vegetable" in human dietary terms, is any edible,
non-seed bearing part of a plant.
J. Elliott
its a fruit
The answer is because it has seeds. Now, here is what a lot of people are amazed to find out. If a tomato has seeds and is --technically or botanically speaking -- a fruit, not a vegetable, then what about other seed producing plants? Here is what Science Bob had to say:
"To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?
If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables."
But don't worry! For our purposes at Vegetable Gardens, and for the purposes of most families, the fruits commonly considered part of the vegetable family will continue to be included!
I HEARD ITS BOTH LOL
A TOMATO FALLS INTO THE FRUIT CATEGORY BUT SUPPOSEDLY WHEN IT'S COOKED IT'S CONSIDERED A VEGETABLE.
Although a lot of people mistake it for a vegetable, its actuallly a fruit... I have no idea why it is a fruit though. Maybe it has a lot of juice in it or either because of the seeds...still wondering...