POLL: A tomato - Fruit or Vegetable?

January 8th, 2009
  • Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? What do you think?


  • Yes you are the only one ROFL. Report Abuse


  • In agriculture it's a vegetable, but in botany it's a fruit. So it's both. IN YO FACE!!!!!!!!!!!


  • A tomato is a fruit


  • fruit

    but looks more like a veggie


  • it's a Fruit


  • fruit


  • Botanically it is a fruit but it will be found in the vegetable section as it isn't sweet .


  • my guess it's fruit?...but i always call it a vegetable ^_^


    ~peace~


  • Sorry, but it is not just "viewed" as a vegetable -- it IS one and ALSO a "fruit" (the two are NOT mutually exclusive), as you'll see if you'd just stop to look it up in the DICTIONARY (Am I the only one who bothered to do so??) Report Abuse


  • It is a fruit and was considered an aphrodisiac when first discovered.


  • A fruit :D lol.


  • Fruit.


  • it is techniccally a fruit, but we think of it as a vegetable cuz it isn't as sweet.


  • In fact, it is BOTH a fruit and a vegetable -- as you can see from the dictionary definitions below.

    A big part of the problem is with the QUESTION -- "fruit OR vegetable?" assumes that these are two complementary or opposite categories. But they are not!

    VEGETABLE
    1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the TOMATO, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/v...

    FRUIT
    2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, TOMATO, or pineapple.
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/f...


  • vegetable


  • Vegetable.


  • Fruit


  • technically its a fruit...but i consider it more of a vegetable.


  • fruit


  • Fruit.


  • vegtable


  • fruit


  • Fruit

    http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/f...


  • fruit, but i eat it with veggies


  • you say fruit i say vegetable lets just call the whole thing off


  • A tomato is a fruit, but it is eaten as a vegetable, and that's a fact.


  • vege

    and i gave star cuz u stared me!!!


  • Technically it is a fruit, however, we view it as a vegetable because it is not sweet like fruit. Avocados are fruits too! So is my cousin, but that's a whole other question...


  • Fruit because it has skin, flash and seed, unless kiwi is a vegetable and potatoes are fruits...People tend to treat it like veggie cos it doesnt have that certain sweetnes and it tastes a little veggie-ish...

    Ps- Watermelon is a fruit, how did it become a state's official veggie?!!!


  • Fruit!


  • Answer: "A tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking."

    Proof:
    "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."


  • it's a fruit!


  • vegetable-....fruit? well maybe a nasty one (I don't see it as one)







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