Tomato.. fruit or vegetable

Which one is it.. a always thought it was a vegetable..

tastes like a vegetable would but it technically is a fruit.

I heard it was a fruit...something about the seeds in it and the way it grows...

Are you speaking in culinary terms or botanical terms?

Biologically-speaking, a Tomato is actually a berry :wtf:

Speaking from a culinary sense, a tomato is a vegetable. Vegetable has no meaning in terms of biology so the whole "Is it a fruit or a vegetable?" thing is a bit misleading '>_>

How the hell is it misleading question.. its quite simple one or the other.

he's saying, vegetable has no 'set' meaning.... atleast biologicaly... kinda hard to explain you just gotta understand it sorta o.0

anyways, it is both... technically fruit, but for all practical purposes it's a vegetable...

wait according to the dictionary any plant we eat is vegetable... o.0 including fruits and herbs...

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any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.

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lol.... a fruit is a vegetable now?

Yea... as in, in terms of cooking both fruit and vegetable mean something, but if you're speaking in terms of biology 'vegetable' doesn't mean anything.

So, it's a vegetable.

Uh oh slipknot now the world's turning upside down ><

then there's this.... for fruit...

1. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
3. the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.


and definition of berry...

1. any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
2. Botany. a simple fruit having a pulpy pericarp in which the seeds are embedded, as the grape, gooseberry, currant, or tomato.

I think it is actually a fruit but I class it as a vegetable when cooking.