Is a Tomato a fruit or vegetable?🍅
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I agree with fruit. It's produce. The plant beared fruit (via pollination) as a produced tomato.
Vegetables are leaves or practically any other part of the plant besides the fruit. (Like broccoli, spinach, lettuce, etc.)
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I hate it when people try to act smart about something that's wrong lol
In a Culinary stance, you'd be right. They are more sweeter and are a nice addition to salads.
But in a botanical sense, you're wrong. Vegetables are the roots, or the leaves of plants from my understanding. So this is carrots, spinach, lettuce, etc. But a fruit is something that grows from the plant itself. So this is bananas, blueberries, and also tomatoes. And squash also fall into this category
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fruit.
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Is a Tomato a fruit or vegetable?🍅
Yes.
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More specifically, a fruit is anything that carries the seeds of the plant. Peas, beans, corn, and any kind of nut can also be considered fruit from a botanical stance!
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Sooooo, we're saying the same thing with different words, right? And I hope you weren't talking about me with that first statement/sentence. (I haven't had a university level science class in years... Lol, probably since before you were born, so sometimes I can't use the proper science terms. I apologize for not recalling all the details, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct)
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Tomatoes are botanically fruits because they develop from a flower and contain seeds. However, in culinary terms, they are considered vegetables due to their savory flavor, lack of sweetness, and use in main dishes. A 1893 Supreme Court case (Nix v. Hedden) even classified them as vegetables for trade purposes.
Google says they'rere BOTH!4 -
My brother was watching me and read the title of this discussion and explained to me why a tomato is a fruit. I countered, "would you put it in your fruit salad?" he says "but science is more important than cooking!" me: "counterpoint: that is bull"
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