fruity/veggie

[opuntia]

Is tomato a fruit or a vegetable:?:
[In most of the dictionaries it states that tomato s a fruit but i don't know any reason why it cannot be a vegetable ]

[canalon]

Fruit is a Plant biology term taht design a specific part of a plant. Vegetable is a culinary word that design the use of some plants. Hence the overlaping items in the 2 categories.

Patrick

[Chris4]

I always thought most people classed it as a fruit.

[mith]

A fruit is a reproductive part of a plant. A veggie...not. An nuts are in a different category.

[opuntia]

but i just wanted to know why it cannot be considered as a fruit

[Chris4]

So tomatos are fruit then...
I dont really like them but they have one of the strongest form of antioxident. Lycopene

[mith]

But it is considered a fruit...

[canalon]

Biologist (as can be seen on this forum) knows that tomatoes are a fruit. But cooks (I seem to be the only one to be both) since they are mainly using tomatoes in savoury dishes consider them as vegetables. So Fruit or vegetable, it only depends if you study them or eat them

Patrick

[MrMistery]

Yeah, Patrick is right. Cooks consider fruits to be only the fruits with a high concetration of glucose and fructose in their juices(aka: the ones that are sweet )

[Poison]

If we are talking about it non-biologically it is vegetable but you can not use the term 'vegetable' for anything in the biology. Most of the the things that we call 'vegetable' and 'fruit' are all FRUITS of those plants.
Hope it is clear now.

*edit*: the word 'All' was wrong sorry. Replaced with 'most of the' And thank you for correcting, Andrew.

[MrMistery]

Now quite... the potato and onion(actually here it is more complicated but it doesn't matter) are underground stems. Carrot is a root. Salad and cabbage are leaves. These are all vegetables

[Winter]

actually I once heard that the tomato is considered a fruit, because it has seeds...
???
according to whoever made that up, vegetables usually don't