What is a fruit AND a vegatable at the same time?

Question

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Answer 1

How is that possible? Some people often consider fruit such as tomatoes and cucumbers are vegetables, but that doesn't make it so. Fruit are the ripened ovary of a flower, usually fleshy pulp surrounding the seed, while vegetables are the leave, stem, or root part of the plant.

Answer 2

A tomato!

Answer 3

If you care to mix culinary and scientific descriptions (but I'm not sure why you'd want to), then lots of plant products would be "both at the same time" -- the most common one has been identified already (tomato). A tomato is technically a fruit (bears seeds) but most cooks will refer to it as a vegetable. In that sense, a pepper is also a fruit but, again, is never referred to as such in a grocery store. Broccoli, despite Bobby's suggestion, would not fit... it's a floret, not the products of that floret.

Answer 4

Tomato. It is fruit vegetable (like root veg, leaf veg etc) and dealt with under Olericulture. But Pomology is the science of fruits and tomato is not included under that.

Answer 5

Well, a tomato is a fruit that a lot of people call a vegetable.

Answer 6

yes its very possible just like a tamato, or how an egg is dairy and meat

Answer 7

Broccoli  seems to fit the requirements.

Tomatoes are fruits.  

Edit:   If broccoli is not, according to Mavster, then what is?   I am pretty sure that tomatoes are fruit by the scientific definition, so they are ruled out.

Answer 8

Andrea there is no such thing as a vegetable fruit or a fruit vegetable. I mean the two are very different. Considering the fact that you posted your question in Botany i would assume that you want a scientific answer and not an answer which involves culinary thing whatsoever. If this is so then I would stand for my answer that nothing is both a vegetable and a fruit that is to consider all definitions. You must be swayed that tomato is considered a vegetable when coking. This is in fact true for those who know nothing about Botany or biology. For those who studied botany however they consider tomato as a fruit despite the fact that they used it as a vegetable when cooking.

Hope this helps...

Answer 9

tomato

Answer 10

Tomato????