Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?!


Question:

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?


Answers:
From the obvious and botanical standpoint, it's a fruit. From the legal standpoint (according to the law passed by congress) it's a veggie.

A fruit.

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tomato is a fruit... it has seeds.

people say its a fruit but I thought it was a vegtable

definitely a fruit.

Definitely a fruit, and I think it is because it grows on a vine or something like that.

its a fruit it has seeds

Technically speaking? A fruit.

But I grew up with it being a vegetable and to me, it will always be a vegetable.

You don't see them putting tomatoes in a fruit salad do you?

BOTH!!!!!!!!!!

In the true Botanical sense it is a fruit. When it comes to the way most people think of them is is a vegetable.

Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: a fruit or, more precisely, a berry.

officially it is a fruit
but most people use it as a vegetable
after all,have you ever seen a tomato in a fruit salad,in a sweet pie,as an icecream flavour?
yuck!
but i love them tho as part of a main course or in a cheese sandwich!

both




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