Is Watermelon a Fruit or Vegetable? According to Oklahoma it is a veggie...

The way I always looked at it is if it is seed bearing it is a fruit, so tomato, watermelon, apples, oranges, and even squash would technically be fruits. Then with vegetables you have the leafy part of veggies, like broccoli, beet greens, spinach, etc. and the root vegetables, like potato, carrot, turnip, onion, etc. All fruits and vegetables are vastly different, citrus fruits are in no way similar to strawberries, except that they both contain seeds and begin as flowers. Melons and squash are similar due to the hard exterior shell, the way they grow on the vine, and the inner seed structure. Not all fruits are sweet... zucchini is a fruit and it's considered a vegetable. I think people need to think outside the sweet/non-sweet box when talking about foods... but I don't think it right to re-classify watermelon as a vegetable when it defies both biology and popular opinion.

In culinary terms it is a fruit, but in some places it is considered a succulent, like cactus or Aloe plant... all of which can be pickled and served warm like a vegetable... Do people actually sit up and think about stuff like this?

The girl beside my locker asked me this same question today...and I said of course it is a fruit. What dumb person would think that it is a vegetable? Apparently the Oklahoma State Legislature!! And the only reason that they probably did do that was to be the first state(and probably the only state) to have the WATERMELON as a vegetable. I think that a fruit is anything having a seed. This is what wikipedia said, "In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant." A watermelon does come from a flowering plant...and it does have SEEDS!! People...you should know this!! Okay, I voted! And it said that 69 percent think that is a fruit and 30 percent think that it is a vegetable. When did everyone decide this? I cannot believe that Oklahoma's Vegetable is now a Watermelon! There is something new you can tell your kids. While you tell them that...you also have to tell them that according to Oklahoma it is not a fruit. Thanks for the information though. I was wondering why that girl beside my locker asked me that!! LOL :D

Okay, i will always say it's a fruit, i'm sorry but there's tonnes of other veggies they could use instead of grabbing a fruit and trying to make it into a veggi...... Oh my, no really, i say fruit, and if i'm wrong, oops, but it's sweet hahha.......

This is the silliest thing I've ever heard...if a food has seeds it's known as a fruit...right? That's what I was always told.

A watermelon being classified as a vegetable? That sounds very dodgy to me. I know about tomatoes being fruits, and I think pumpkins can fall under either heading, but a watermelon just can't be a vegetable! Are they going tomake all melons vegetables in Oklahoma? Like cantaloupes, honeydews, the whole shebang? That seems downright strange! Well, maybe it'll be easier to get the kids to eat their vegetables if watermelon is on the menu?

I don't care what they say it's a fruit, lol. People say that the tomato is a fruit, but I think it's a vegetable and I'm sticking to it. No matter how stupid it makes me sound, lol. Watermelon= fruit. Tomato= vegetable. :)

well for me it is not a veggie.. it is a fruit since we dont need to cooked it to eat..yeah iw ill check on it later and vote..

A watermelon is indeed a FRUIT .. in botanical terms a fruit is anything that has a 'fleshy' covering over it's seeds .. so watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber,tomato and squash are all fruits ..

This sounds wierd. How come a watermelon be vegetable. I have never heard that watermelon is used to cook for making some dishes. We all eat watermelon as a fruit and put it in fruit salad. This is not fair to make watermelon a vegetable.

That's ridiculous! Watermelons are fruits! Hence the latter part of the name "melon"! Melons are fruits! There's no way a watermelon could ever be a vegetable!! It's just not gonna happen!

thanx for this information. in our country irt comes under fruits section, so i knew it as a fruit. nice to know new things about old things.

Most of my life I have consider watermelon to be a fruit because of its sweetness but after having to study fruits and vegetables for a while now I have found that I was wrong about several fruit and vegetables. I have learned that a fruit can be a vegetable but a vegetable can't be a fruit. Here is an article that saids watermelons are a vegetable. http://www.foodreference.com/html/artwatermelon.html

That's really weird. How can watermelon possibly be consider as a veggie. For one thing there is the word melon attached to it, and that word alone indicates to me that it must be a fruit. Also young kids usually don't like to eat vegetables and if watermelon is a vegetable, then young kids won't like, but the fact is, everyone loves watermelon, so it must be a fruit. Another thing is that I don't think I've ever tasted a vegetable that is sweet before, they are usually all bitter or plain.

If watermelon is a vegetable then I can no longer say I hate vegetables.LOL So I think I wil still say watermelon is a fruit. I love watermelon. Thanks for the article.

Strange how they categorize our food. Doesn't matter to me what they call it. I call it a sweet treat. Love the stuff. I can't wait for it to come in season again.

Well, that is so a good one. It is like that tomato stuff. I personally think that watermelon is a fruit and tomato is a vegetable.

I've always viewed it as a fruit rather than a vegetable, but then again i'm British so maybe we class things differently over here? To be honest it doesn't mattermuch to me what it's classed as!

Ok this has just gotten weird. I have always thought that watermelons were fruits. To name a fruit as a state veggie is just wrong, I agree with you whole heartedly on that one.

think watermelon has different names at different places.Besides watermelon itself is various in sort , therefore it is a good thing to discuss .