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So a tomato is a fruit. And Anna, tomatoes are sweet, just not as much as other fruits. Cherry tomatoes have quite a bit of sweetness to them.
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Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
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The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a 'fruit', though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry is an example. As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often used as a vegetable, and a bean pod is also technically a fruit. The term 'vegetable' is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term 'fruit' may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.
There have also been some legal cases where tomatoes where classified as vegetable.
I think the English term fruit is a little bit misleading. In German there is a differentiation between sweet fruits (Obst), vegetables (Gemüse) and the fruit of a plant (Frucht). This last term "Frucht" is not differentiating between sweet and savoury fruits it is just a botanical term that describes the thing that comes after the flower has been pollinated while "Gemüse" and "Obst" are culinaric terms that describe the usage of the fruit (main dish or sweet desert).
Taking this differentiation a tomato is definitely a vegetable (Gemüse) and a fruit (Frucht) but no fruit (Obst).
I can imagine that this is hard to reconstruct if your language doesn't have this differentiation, but being raised with German as native language it is hard for me to understand how someone would call a tomato fruit meaning "Obst".
I think the English term fruit is a little bit misleading. In German there is a differentiation between sweet fruits (Obst), vegetables (Gemüse) and the fruit of a plant (Frucht). This last term "Frucht" is not differentiating between sweet and savoury fruits it is just a botanical term that describes the thing that comes after the flower has been pollinated while "Gemüse" and "Obst" are culinaric terms that describe the usage of the fruit (main dish or sweet desert).
Taking this differentiation a tomato is definitely a vegetable (Gemüse) and a fruit (Frucht) but no fruit (Obst).
I can imagine that this is hard to reconstruct if your language doesn't have this differentiation, but being raised with German as native language it is hard for me to understand how someone would call a tomato fruit meaning "Obst".
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At least I got carrot. Too bad I thought of 10, LOL.killar wrote:OMG, CARROT!!! haha though i was thinking of number 10. still amazing anyhow...
btw, my native language is not english and carrot worked on me...cool eh
That was a cool mind trick though
About the fruit and vegetable debate, my mom said that an easy way to remember what is fruit and what is vegetable is that fruits have seeds and vegetables don't. The only reason why most people think of tomatoes as vegetables is because they treat it as a vegetable (like cooking it and stuff).
Also, when most people think of fruits, they think of sweet things which isn't always the case (well that's the way I see it).
That's my opinion
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i had 6 and tomato( i consider it to be a veggie)
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i think in america the government considers tomatoes vegatables because of some import-export tax reasons...at least thats what alton brown says :P iim actually not to certain what the deal was....mostly because they could tax more on a vegetable? eh anyway food for thought. oh! and by the way, food for thought comes from the medieval days when the philosophers did not have any money for their trade, and to eat traded food for thought.. hahaha just kidding :P
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Tomato is a fruit, because it is a seed pod.
Tomato is a fruit, because it is a seed pod.
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