Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?

[i]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... ...Many true fruits, in a botanical sense, are treated as vegetables in cooking and food preparation because they are not sweet.[/i]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit

Cool. :) Thanks.

I do also think it's a fruit but how can anybody really prove it? Scientists aren't always right.

Exactly, scientists say it's a fruit cause it has seeds, but then what about cucumbers, and all those other vegetables.

cucumber is vegetable. Dont think that even they have seeds they will be considered as fruit.

No, I wouldn't think a cucumber is a fruit, it better not be cause there one of the best vegetables ever. :)

Thanks for your informative response. :)

Same.

Haha yeah, everyone says tomatoes don't have that sweet taste like fruit, but I reckon they are sweet, cause I love them. :)

Yea, We use it exactly like a vegetable, so it should be known as a vegetable. =]

Hahaha, as if my mum would care.