Tamato: Is it a Fruit or Vegetable

[surge]

I don't care what stupid scientist or teachers say about the supermarket or whatever, I say it's a vegetable. It looks and tastes like a vegetable. It tastes nasty eating it plain like a vegetable where fruits taste good eating them by themselves. The insides looks like cucumber insides.

[jzero]

Berry?

[surge]

Berry?

Isn't a berry a fruit?

[wvguy645]

Actually cucumbers, along with zucchini, belong in the fruit family as well.

[Ramindra]

Yes, the humble tomato, lycopersicon esculentum, is a fruit.

[looseliam]

And a banana is a herb.

[teadrinker]

It's technically a fruit, because it contains its seeds, but it's eaten and cooked with as though it were a vegetable. Tomatoes, sliced thinly, with a little salad dressing... yum! Or nice fresh ones, cut in half and eaten with a dusting of salt...

-T.

[surge]

It's technically a fruit, because it contains its seeds, but it's eaten and cooked with as though it were a vegetable. Tomatoes, sliced thinly, with a little salad dressing... yum! Or nice fresh ones, cut in half and eaten with a dusting of salt...

-T.

Lots of Vegetables have seeds.

[teadrinker]

Lots of Vegetables have seeds.

Then they are in fact fruits.

-T.

[cocktales]

.............UND, tomatoes with Lycopen (sp), is known to be an anti-oxidant and "will" help to fight bad things!!! lol

My man says I am almost at a dangerous level of eating sooooo many of these great "fruits"!!!

I try to get him to eat more; but he's NOT that easy to convince to eat more of these wonderful fruits that taste like a vegetable!!!

Whenever there's a question of "red" sauce or "white" sauce, guess which one I opt to have??

RED, of course.......gotta have my "fruits"!!!

[sb]

Pumpkin is fruit... I just learnt something new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit

[teadrinker]

tomatoes with Lycopen (sp), is known to be an anti-oxidant and "will" help to fight bad things!!!

Unfortunately you can't be too sure about this...most recent studies have indicated that all this hype about antioxidants has no real substance, and the fact that antioxidants do good things in test tubes doesn't translate across to doing good things in the human body.

Just eat well and exercise a bit.

-T.

[luminum]

I don't care what stupid scientist or teachers say about the supermarket or whatever, I say it's a vegetable. It looks and tastes like a vegetable. It tastes nasty eating it plain like a vegetable where fruits taste good eating them by themselves. The insides looks like cucumber insides.

Obviously you've never had a durian. Those are fruits, and they are described (correctly) as smelling like rotting flesh and tasting like it and they have the consistancy of a year-old rotted peach.

[surge]

Obviously you've never had a durian. Those are fruits, and they are described (correctly) as smelling like rotting flesh and tasting like it and they have the consistancy of a year-old rotted peach.

Durian is sweet and tastes like fruit. It's not bad, I had it at a market I visited in Canada.

[teadrinker]

Ohh durian - I love durian! One of the many delights of work visits to SE Asia for me is the opportunity to get stuck into some fresh durian.

-T.

[Kulindahr]

Teadrinker has it right:

in botanical terms, the piece of a plant that contains the seeds is a fruit; in gardening terms whether it's a fruit depends mostly on how it's used.

[cbtfan]

if it has seeds it is a fruit.
bananas are usually eaten young in the west before the seeds have developed.
seedless grapes are still a fruit.

Tomatoes that 'taste like vegetables' usually taste like that because they are picked before the flavour has developed, in order to get them to the shops... they are best eaten straight from the bush/plant they grow on.

Nuts, leugemes (?sp) etc are the seeds of a fruit.
most herbs are vegetables
most spices are seeds of a fruit.

[TEEJAY]

A tomato is definitely a fruit, it comes from the apple family and is also known as a "Love apple"

[NedNickerson]

What about V8 juice...? On the V8 Juice website

http://www.v8juice.com

the frequently asked questions has this question:

Q: What Vegetable Juices Are Included In V8 Vegetable Juice?

A: V8 100% vegetable juice contains the juices of tomatoes, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress, and spinach.

[cbtfan]

1 fruit: tomatoes, 7 veg: carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress, and spinach.

[jft245]

If I remember my history correctly a tomato is a fruit but was designated a vegetable by the US government so that a tariff or tax on imported fruits could be bypassed. If I can find the link to the site I read that on I will edit this post and provide the link.

[sunshinesteve]

A tomato is a fruit and so are you!

[DiaryOfAMadman]

Seeds do not make someting 100% a fruit.

Here you go, the most confusing defination I've ever read in my lifetime but provided by Webster's English Dictionary.

fruit
1. fruit \'fru:t\ n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L fructus fruit, use, fr. fructus, pp.
of frui)] often attribX to enjoy, have the use of - more at BROOK 1a: a
product of plant growth - usu. used in pl. 1b1: the usu. edible
reproductive body of a seed plant; esp : one h aving a sweet pulp
associated with the seed 1b2: a succulent plant part used chiefly in a
dessert or sweet course 1c: a dish, quantity, or diet of fruits 1d: a
product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or ap
pendages; specif : the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents 2:
OFFSPRING, PROGENY 3: CONSEQUENCE, RESULT

[Ramindra]

Obviously you've never had a durian. Those are fruits, and they are described (correctly) as smelling like rotting flesh and tasting like it and they have the consistancy of a year-old rotted peach.

I regret to tell you but your description of durian is incorrect. They are usually described as "tasing like heaven, smelling like hell"! At home in Thailand, we have about 20 durian trees growing near the house. I am one of those who actually like the smell of them. It is amazing how many friends we have during the durian season! They are delish!

[greaves]

Actually cucumbers, along with zucchini, belong in the fruit family as well.

Indeed they figure prominently in gay cuisine, along with

Tomato?

You say toe-mar-toe. I say toe-may-toe. But however you say it, it's a fruit: or is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

Let's call the whole thing scoff

[I-Heart-Menz]

Fruit, but used and mistaken as a veggie. I love em, especially tomato juice and stewed tomatos LOL

[bedbugy]

durian the king of fruits

[luminum]

Are you guys nuts? Durians taste awful! Or perhaps it's because taste relies heavily on smell...

Either way: Tomato --> fruit

[BenBrowdersArse]

What about berries? A strawberry ISN'T actually a berry. Neither is a gooseberry. A blackberry IS a berry. So is a raspberry.