tamato frut or vegetable?!
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a tomato is a fruit because:
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.
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, such as tomatoes or bean pods, may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. 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, the answer to the question is that a tomato is technically the fruit of the tomato plant, but it's used as a vegetable in cooking.
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They're neither, its a flying orangutan with a hat that speaks fluent german.
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''knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad''
It's technically a fruit and, in fact, tastes very good when you sprinkle a slice with a little sugar. Try it.
In biology it is a fruit.
Some cooks group it with the vegetables.
I understand that's how you pronounce it so here I go with the correct spelling: tomato is a fruit
All items that have seeds are a fruit if they have no seeds thay are veg. Not To good with your spelking are you mate
It's a fruit. Just like pineapple is actually an herb.
A TOMATO is a FRUIT. Spell check is there for a reason!
It's actulley a fruit.
A tomato is a fruit.
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