Tomato....Veggie or Fruit?

[BaD_250ex]

Is the Tomato a veggie or a fruit. I would say it is a veggie.

[QuAdRaCeR244]

fruit:ermm:

[Glow Plug]

It's a veggie do you say i feel like eating a nice fresh tomato to bad i have to go and get it out of the VEGATABLE crisper. Or "hey were do you want these tomtoes putting" you don't put tomatoes in the FRUIT basket do you?

[batgeek]

its a fruit, in the strict botanical sense, the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a plant, enclosing the seed or seeds.

veggies are root crops like potatoes, carrots and turnips; bulbs like onions and garlic; stems like asparagus; leaves like lettuce and cabbage; flowers like broccoli and cauliflower.

i knew that botany class i took in college would help me sometime.

[CHAUNCY]

I think its a fruit:ermm:

[-=Skot=-]

tomato is a fruit.

[sweet300ex]

its a fruit

[AtvMxRider]

I think you're a fruit!:huh

[Honda4trax250x]

its considered a fruit but i think of it more as a vegetable because of the taste

[Pappy]

Originally posted by batgeek
its a fruit, in the strict botanical sense, the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a plant, enclosing the seed or seeds.

veggies are root crops like potatoes, carrots and turnips; bulbs like onions and garlic; stems like asparagus; leaves like lettuce and cabbage; flowers like broccoli and cauliflower.

i knew that botany class i took in college would help me sometime.

:D saved me some typing:scary:

[blondie69]

its a vegtable (sp):huh

you don't put fruits in sandwiches and salads...well..sometimes u put mandrin oranges and stuff like that in salads....but not in sandwhiches

[Juggalo]

its a fruit weather it really seems like one or not. what the guy said about the seeds is right therefore its a fruit.

[300exazzkikr]

a tomato is 100% fruit just like this topic..:huh

[JOEX]

Originally posted by 300exazzkikr
a tomato is 100% fruit just like this topic..:huh
^^^^^^^^

[JOEX]

Boredom+time+Google=
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~robsond/solutions/horticulture/docs/tomato.html

Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. So is a watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber, and squash. A "fruit" is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds.

Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and nonwoody. Most fruits, from a horticulture perspective, are grown on a woody plant (apples, cherries, raspberries, oranges) with the exception of strawberries.

In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce. (A hundred years really hasn't changed anything.)

Taxes are everywhere;) .............

Joe

[j37]

I think of it being vegtable but its a fruit from what ive heard before. Batgeek made very much sense of why its a fruit.

[lex luger]

Originally posted by Glow Plug
FRUIT basket do you?

yeah someones def. a fruit basket




haha j/k

[toby400ex]

WOW:eek:, if there isnt a new sport quad soon, this site is gonna go to **** no matter what Ben does to spruce it up.:(

[JOEX]

Originally posted by toby400ex
WOW:eek:, if there isnt a new sport quad soon, this site is gonna go to **** no matter what Ben does to spruce it up.:(
LOL! Maybe he can "prune" a few more members:D

Joe

[big-guy]

ketchup counts as a vegetable in school lunches...

IT IS CLASSIFIED AS A VEGGIE, BUT IT SERVES THE SAME PURPOSE AS A FRUIT DOES TO THE PLANT...... bY DEFINITION AND THE REASON THE PLANT CREATES IT IT IS A FRUIT, BUT WE CLASSIFY IT AS A VEGGIE DUE TO HOW IT WORKS IN OUR DIET