Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? Options

[coconutter]

It's a vegetable.

prove me otherwise?

[karmakiller]

It has seeds :shrugs:

Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit

"vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term.

[MarcelleB]

well it has seeds so doesn't that make it a fruit

[brooklyneast05]

well that was fast

[Amaranthus]

It's nasty.
So it's a vegetable.

[tokyo-rose]

This is not a debatable topic. A tomato is a fruit.

[coconutter]

You mean it's a fruit because it has seeds in it?

I've just always seen it as a vegetable.

[Joanne]

I've just always seen it as a vegetable.

[freeridefight]

I've just always seen it as a vegetable.

I understand biologically it is a fruit. Technically yes it is.

[Melissa]

This is not a debatable topic.

exactly.

so why is it still here? are we past moving things to the VIP lounge? maybe we should call james, he'll move it in a jiffy.

OH JAMES, WHERE ART THOU?! ANOTHER TOPIC YOU CAN SHIP ON OVER TO THE VIP WHERE I WILL PROMPTLY MERGE IT WITH THE ORGY!!

[DontStealMyNameI...]

What about bananas?

[katebaybayy]

vegetable, all the way

[SpreadThePeace]

A tomato is a fruit. I used to think it was a vegetable, but I was wrong.

[Serendipity]

So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.

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

[Relentless]

VEGETABLE.

But I know for a fact that it's a fruit, yet I still don't believe it. I say it's a vegetable.

[mackenziee]

^ same here, I've grown up with it as a vegetable, which makes it seem to be one, even if it isn't.

[*absinthe*]

It's nasty.
So it's a vegetable.

I grew up with it as a vegetable, but I know it's technically a fruit.

[CelestialAbyss]

If everyone wants to get really technical, it's a fruit vegitable. *yes there is that classification* It's concidered a vegitable because of it's low sugar content but is under the fruit subcategory of vegitable because of the seeds. Other vegitables that fall under this category are avocados and eggplants.

and yes, I did do my research on this one!!!!

[Tomates]

It may look like a vegtable...and taste like a vegtable
but those suckers are fruits.

I didnt find out until 4th grade.


EDIT: fine lets just call it a Vegafruit. Solves both conflicts

[heyo-captain-jac...]

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 do that. Tomatoes are delicious.

Anyway, it's a fruit. Vegetable just means it has no seeds in the edible part.

[karmakiller]

If everyone wants to get really technical, it's a fruit vegitable. *yes there is that classification* It's concidered a vegitable because of it's low sugar content but is under the fruit subcategory of vegitable because of the seeds. Other vegitables that fall under this category are avocados and eggplants.

and yes, I did do my research on this one!!!!

You seem like a reliable source for information about vegitables.

Weird to think that cucumbers are technically classified as fruits, too. Poor cucumbers, tomatoes are getting all the fame.

When you ask if something's a fruit or a vegetable you're using terms that apply to way different things. If you're asking how it's grown and how it's cooked then I'd say that it's both.

[Tomates]

My name means tomatoes in french : D
that slipped my mind also even though i took french.

[shoryuken]

VEGGI..

[nikx618]

FRUIT.
its a FACT.
not a debatable topic[;

[USCavalry]

it's actually a genetically modified fruigetable made in the year 2011 and sent back in time by scientists before the end of the world so that humanity might become stronger with its nutrition and have a chance at fighting off the zombie sloth invasion of 2012, which actually move freakishly fast