Is Tomato a Fruit or a Vegetable?
By pinoycity
@pinoycity (575)
Philippines
September 23, 2010 9:29am CST
Doing my blogs on Fruits and Vegetables, I wrote a post about Tomato. Initially, I was thinking that Tomato is a vegetable, having been considered as such by the US Department of Agriculture. But, browsing through the web, lots of sites consider this wonderful food a fruit.
Could please help me settle the issue?
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8 responses
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
9 Mar 12
There is something called rasam made from tomato and it is very tasty. The recipe can be find in the internet. I think one should try making rasam. It is a Southindian dish. There is something called rasavada where vada is put on the tomato soup or rasam and with spices and eaten hot. It is very yummy.
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
10 Apr 11
Because it grows on a plant it is fruit and because we eat it , it is vegetable, so US dept of agriculture is right and other sites are also right..
Thanks for sharing
Cheers.
God bless you, have a nice day ahead.
Professor ‘Bhuwan’. .
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@pinoycity (575)
• Philippines
30 Sep 10
Me too. I always think of fruits as sweet and foods that you can eat on its own. Tomato? I always eat it, in partner with other foods.
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@moneyspinner (613)
• Mumbai, India
23 Sep 10
hello Pinoycity,
Tamato is a typically Red edible fruit as well as the plant "solanum lycopersicum", usually grown in cooler climates :). Botanically it is a fruit though considered a vegetable for culinary purposes, yess USA supreme court has passed a verdict to consider it as a vegetable which has caused this confusion to arise.
Hope this helps :)
@chicko (86)
• India
11 Nov 10
Botonically a berry, it is characterised as a vegetable. Most fruits are sweet, but tomato is not!Its never used in sweet receipes, never placed next to a banana or apple in a grocery store! In 1983 US supreme court declared it as vegetable.
@LaurenInLA (2270)
• United States
23 Sep 10
I've always thought of a tomato as a vegetable but I think that it is considered a fruit. Seems strange.
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