Is the tomato a fruit or a veggie? and why? ?

Question

Other veggies have seeds. eg eggplant, squash, string beans.

Answer 1

tomato is fruit but also say it vegetable

Answer 2

its a fruit and a berry..

and it does have sugar.. I am on a diabetic diet and my dietician makes me limit them cause they are high in sugar.. only the tartness masks the sugar of them..

if you've ever been to a farmers market and eaten a fresh, red, vine ripened tomato.. you will taste the sweetness in them.. good tomatoes are sweet...  

Answer 3

fruit i don't know why

(i hate tomato)

Answer 4

this query's been over asked.. why not keyword search yahoo answers and google.com   to find out what others think instead.

Answer 5

tomato has a certain typ of seed matching tht of a fruit x its a dfruit x

Answer 6

It is a fruit, the seeds are inside the fruit. Vegetables dont contain seeds.

Answer 7

A vegetable. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a goddamn liar.

Answer 8

It's a fruit.

Anything with a root system (i.e. parsnips, potatoes) is a vegetable.

Anything that grows above ground is a fruit.

"Wisdom is knowing a tomato is a fruit.  Common sense is knowing not to put it in your fruit salad".

Answer 9

tomato is a veggie and it does have seeds

Answer 10

Botanically it's a fruit. "fruit" is an anatomical description for a certain part of the plant. "Vegetable" is a more general term that generally means simply, "plant". In cooking the tomato is treated as a vegetable.

Answer 11

apparently it is a fruit because scientists have stated that It has it's seeds are in the same place as a berry and other fruits and is also eaten in the same way, classifying it as a fruit.

Answer 12

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.

Answer 13

A fruit.

a round fruit with bright-red skin and pulpy seedy flesh, eaten cooked or raw as a vegetable

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Answer 14

It's a fruit because it has seeds. Actually string beans, squash, eggplant our fruits to because they have seeds!