Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? |
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Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? |
Jul 24 2008, 02:21 PM
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QUOTE(nikx618 Posted Today @ 02:39 PM ) FRUIT. its a FACT. not a debatable topic[; I agree. |
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Jul 24 2008, 03:26 PM
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Jul 24 2008, 04:44 PM
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Jul 24 2008, 05:47 PM
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Jul 24 2008, 05:48 PM
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poison Group: Official Member Posts: 4,806 Joined: Mar 2008 Member No: 629,020 |
everytime i see this forum i keep thinking it says tomates XD
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Jul 24 2008, 05:52 PM
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We all thought it was a vegetable before.
We were all wrong, it's a fruit. This isn't debatable. |
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Jul 25 2008, 02:51 PM
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VEGGIEE...
We all though it was a vegetable before. We were all wrong, it's a fruit. This isn't debatable. u sttylll wrrongg... |
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Aug 27 2008, 03:06 AM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
I think of it as a fruit, but it's not like you're going to take a whole tomato to school to eat as a snack. =p I eat tomatoes as snacks. The littler ones, not the big ones. Roma tomatoes are excellent to just eat 'cos their flavor is a little more robust.So, definitions of each term, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: Tomato - The glossy fleshy fruit of a solanaceous plant (Solanum Lycopersicum or Lycopersicum esculentum), a native of tropical America, now cultivated as a garden vegetable in temperate as well as tropical lands. Fruit - The edible product of a plant or tree, consisting of the seed and its envelope, esp. the latter when it is of a juicy pulpy nature, as in the apple, orange, plum, etc. Vegetable - A plant cultivated for food; esp. an edible herb or root used for human consumption and commonly eaten, either cooked or raw, with meat or other article of food. Also, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia: QUOTE There is no clear botanical distinction between vegetables and fruits. Most vegetables consist largely of water, making them low in calories. They are excellent sources of fiber, vitamins A and C, potassium, calcium, and iron. Therefore, the difference between a fruit and a vegetable seems to be the latter's link to commodification (see the italicized part in the definition of vegetable). |
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Aug 27 2008, 07:46 AM
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I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite :-) Group: Official Member Posts: 3,008 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 601,399 |
vegetable. i dont care what science says, it. is. a. vegetable!
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Aug 28 2008, 07:24 PM
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omnomnom Group: Member Posts: 1,776 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 180,688 |
It is a debate in a sense that you would like to debate what you believe it is, not based on science facts.
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Oct 16 2008, 04:55 PM
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team late night queen Group: Member Posts: 1,602 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,861 |
fruit. even brenda song says so! haha.
you only have to listen to the first 22 seconds. |
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Oct 16 2008, 06:13 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but until the 1920s the tomato was considered a vegetable. It was around that decade that people started considering it a fruit to avoid taxes that vegetables had. So.... Vegetable, renamed fruit by a society who wanted to avoid taxes :)
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Oct 17 2008, 12:01 PM
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I think it's a fruit, but kyro serves a good point.
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Oct 17 2008, 12:49 PM
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It's not a point, it's a fact.
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Oct 17 2008, 05:21 PM
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It does not really matter if the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. Either way, the flavors will still be the same..
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Mar 28 2009, 05:48 PM
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"Silly me, I thought this was a free country" Group: Human Posts: 1,666 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 60,913 |
Ask a botanist and they'll tell you it's a fruit.
Ask a chef and they'll tell you it's a vegetable. |
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Mar 29 2009, 06:15 PM
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Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 5,525 Joined: Nov 2006 Member No: 478,024 |
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Mar 29 2009, 08:26 PM
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For some reason, I always thought tomatos were related to apples. LOL
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Mar 29 2009, 10:53 PM
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Live long and prosper. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 5,525 Joined: Nov 2006 Member No: 478,024 |
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Mar 29 2009, 11:28 PM
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fruit
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Mar 30 2009, 12:24 AM
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I eat it like an apple with salt and pepper...
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Mar 30 2009, 11:15 AM
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huu da h3ll eaat tommoto wyth peppur... WTF.. dat nastii
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Mar 30 2009, 01:18 PM
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Mar 30 2009, 05:11 PM
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Mar 30 2009, 05:15 PM
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