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Is tomato a fruit or vegetable?
Posted by humanrubberband • 1/26/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: fruit, tomato
What do you classify it as?
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It doesn't matter what individuals classify it as...it's a fruit. -
Yes. It's one or the other for SURE.
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A fruit is a fruit. Seeds!
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its a FRUIT!!
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Nice to know that we at BC all know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable!
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That cause we is sma'rt
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Actually I'm quite stupid...I only know 4 things and that happens to be one of them...
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Yeah even if they try and confuse us with all that genetic engineering bizniz!
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fruit. it's classified as a druit because it has seeds....
i hate raw tomatoes though.-
Sorry what?!? You hate raw tomatoes???
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what the hell is a druit....you're not apart of the sma'rt BC members thing I was talking about LOL.
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uh oh... and don't blame the keyboard!
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I think it was supposed to be "druid". Everyone knows tomatoes have mystical, pagan tendencies.
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Everyone in history has considered it a fruit, until one of the USA governmental departments decided that fruits must be perennial. Scientists were in an uproar when this was decided. -
My husband and I argue about this all the time, actually. Because I refuse to believe it is a fruit
Technically speaking, tomatoes are classified as berries.
However, genetic evidence (e.g., Peralta & Spooner 2001) has now shown that Linnaeus was correct in the placement of the tomato in the genus Solanum, making the Linnaean name correct; if Lycopersicon is excluded from Solanum, Solanum is left as a paraphyletic taxon. Despite this, it is likely that the exact taxonomic placement of the tomato will be controversial for some time to come, with both names found in the literature. Two of the major reasons that some still consider the genera separate are the leaf structure (tomato leaves are markedly different from any other Solanum), and the biochemistry (many of the alkaloids common to other Solanum species are conspicuously absent in the tomato). The tomato can with some difficulty be crossed with a few species of diploid Potato with viable offspring that are capable of reproducing. Such hybrids provide conclusive evidence of the close relationship between these genera.
Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. -
It amazes me how worked up people can get over this.
oooh-baby-baby.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-almost-forgot-tomatoe-fruit-or.html -
It grows on trees and has seeds
it's a fruit-
Can't say I've ever seen a tomato tree...
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ROFLMAO...yeah, Ali you're also not apart of the sma'rt BC members thing either
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do you have pics?? -
why does this remind me of the cookie tree thing all over again...
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hehehe i like proof regardless of how photoshoped that proof may be
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Fruit. Fruit. Fruity fruit FRUIT! oh and berry still makes is a fruity fruit fruit!
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! it eats like a veggie! Ergo, it's a veggie dammit!
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I agree with Anok -- it's a veggie... -
its a fruit... read my post
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who or what is "Ergo"??
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Ergo:
conj. Consequently; therefore.
adv. Consequently; hence. -
Oh right! Latin ay? I love using the word "heence" I don't know why...
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The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened ovaries of flowering plants. In many plant species, the fruit includes the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds, and the presence of seeds indicates that a structure is most likely a fruit, though not all seeds come from fruits.[1]
The term "vegetable" generally means the edible parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation.
Mushrooms belong to the biological kingdom Fungi, not the plant kingdom, and yet they are also generally considered to be vegetables, at least in the retail industry.[1][2] Nuts, seeds, grains, herbs, spices and culinary fruits are usually not considered to be vegetables, even though all of them are edible parts of plants.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable-
You tell 'em!
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Veggie, veggie veggie!
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I his parents considered parenting school after that one LOL
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Not only is the tomato a fruit but a berry. And my mother made tomato preserves all through my childhood. -
It's a fruit that has been classified and used as a vegetable ... and I think there was a court order involved.
I had the same argument with a friend of mine some years back. He hated pineapple burgers because he said he would not put fruit on his hamburger. I asked him what about tomato and he said that it was not a fruit. We made a hundred dollar bet.
He has never paid me though, but it's a fruit! -
Tomato is a vegetable.. -
um... no. it is a fruit. -
It's a fruit that was once thought to be poisonous. It was named a vegetable in order to tax it.
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Tomatoes are fruits and so are cookies. -
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depends on which tomato boy you are taking about:
jerry tomato is a fruit, not that there is anything wrong with that,
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benny tomato is a vegatable ever since that terrible tractor accident.
lester tomato is the only one who is normal.-
Now this is a truly elegant definition!
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As abridged from Wikipedia:
"Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry."-
I'm sticking with Wikipedia and you can't make me change my mind.
So there. -
dude seriously just look at it
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"In many plant species, the fruit includes the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues."
Aye. That's why the tomato is a fruit, lol. -
LOL
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It's a fruit it has seeds. -
sometimes I wonder why such a simply thread can get soo many replies even when we are all basically saying the same thing except those who I said wasn't in the sma'rt BC members group and that includes Arnous and Dosox.
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yes, but then no one listens to any one in here it like talking to a brick wall with a looping audio tape on the other side
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Don't be like that. I listen, even if this thread is teh suck.
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Veggie veggie veggie!
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@sensico What did ya say
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are you still drunk....
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OMG it was yesterday.. I don't drink anyway
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It's a vote, sensico.
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dont "OMG" me young man :| I was just asking a simple question and you better be lucky you answered correctly or else I was going to tell your mother
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@LU, well...that makes more sense then
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@LynneaUrania
@sensico
See we're in a vegetable thread Have some carrots & relax
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Vegetable. -
It's a fruit, it has seeds. That's what I was taught anyway.-
All fruits are vegetables but all vegetables are not fruit.
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So, if the seeds make a tomato a fruit, then what's a squash? A string bean? Where do we draw the line? Won't somebody please think of the children?! [sob]
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All vegetables are not fruit but all fruits are vegetables
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I don't know, to be honest I'm not sure what a string bean is anyway, is it like a runner bean?
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Yup. Or snow peas or sugar snap peas, if the terminology for such beans is not to be agreed upon.
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A fruit, of course! -
Tomato is considered as a vegetable and is very much useful for skin as it contains lycopene pigment.
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I think tomatos are meat, in particular the "meat tomatos" as they are called in the Netherland (vlees tomaten).
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