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Question by : Is the tomato a fruit of vegatable?
I have looked up the Word tomato and it says “edible fruit family” However, you can’t have a tomato smoothie, or making a fruit salad you can’t throw tomatoes in it. Help we out please!
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Answer by Blessed
It is a fruit. It is just not sweet like other fruits you are used to.
What do you think? Answer below!
A tomato is a fruit because it grows on a vine and has seeds. Its just not sweet like other fruit.
It’s a fruit just like cucumbers, squash, bell peppers. If it has seeds, it’s classified as a fruit in a botanical way but they are used as vegetables in the culinary world.
Tomatoes are fruit but treat it like a vegetable.
A fruit!
Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit. However, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and, from a culinary standpoint, it is typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, as are vegetables, rather than at dessert in the case of most fruits. This is what confuses people.
It is a fruit. They were also called a “love apple”.
is a fruit
Ok to answer the question once and for all, a tomato is a fruit and that is just the way it is. Sure its not the sweetest fruit but non the less that is what it is.
fruit duhh
A tomato is a fruit. Fruits, like tomatoes, begin developing from the ovary in the base of the flower, and they contain seeds (cultivated forms might be seedless). In cooking, tomatoes are seen as vegetables because they are not used in sweet dishes.
Hope that helps
It’s a fruit