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Question by <3: Why is a tomato classified as a fruit?
It’s always used in vegetable dishes and nobody really eats a Roma tomato by itself like an apple, except those cherry tomatoes. The world doesn’t make sense anymore.
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Answer by Sabrina
It has seeds.
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It has seeds. Therefor its a vegetable along with peppers, cucumbers/pickles ect
because it has seeds
Because there are TWO groups that classify fruits and veggies –
1) Botanists – a “fruit” is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. This contains the plant’s seeds… therefore string beans are fruits, as are cucumbers and squash !!
2) Cooks and Nutritionists – They normally limit “fruits” to sweet fruits despite the biological definition !!
Interestingly… it went to the Supreme Court regarding the tomato – The court ruled unanimously in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is correctly identified as, and thus taxed as, a vegetable, for the purposes of the Tariff of 1883 on imported produce. The court did acknowledge, however, that, botanically speaking, a tomato is a fruit !!
Botanically, tomato is fruit because it carries the seeds of the tomato plant. That’s what a fruit is.
And I eat fresh garden tomatoes by themselves all the time. Sun-ripened and warm with just a sprinkling of salt…Mm…
Because it has seeds in it
Fruit because it grows from the ovaries, that is the definition biologically of a ”true” fruit. Though nature isn’t always as simple as that when following rules, apples for example are not true fruits.
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