Tomato: fruit or vegetable.
@Scrapper88 (5983)
United States
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@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
29 Oct 21
@Scrapper88 most Nana's I eat are pretty sweet, but some are rather bland
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@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
29 Oct 21
A banana is a fruit and it is not sweet.
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@ihasaquestion (8276)
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29 Oct 21
I think tomato is a night vegetable, but it looks like a fruit too. So, maybe it is both.
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@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
29 Oct 21
I never thought about it being both.
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@RebeccasFarm (89882)
• Arvada, Colorado
29 Oct 21
They say it is a fruit but it sure seems like a vegetable to me.
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@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
29 Oct 21
A lot of people has the same problem with deciding on which one it is.
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@Jigenj (75)
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29 Oct 21
In biological term, tomato is a fruit. Because fruit is a product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.
But in cultural term, it's vegetable. Because vegetable can be any part of plant; fruit, leaf, stem, root, even seed.
So, imo, tomato is a fruit that we eat as vegetable (people even eat it raw as other fruit too!)
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@Scrapper88 (5983)
• United States
29 Oct 21
No matter which one it is; I still like to eat tomatoes.
@marguicha (223008)
• Chile
29 Oct 21
It depends on how you see it. It is the fruit of a plant in the same way that beans and peas are. And what are veggies? Culturally, it depends on how we eat them , not what we eat of them (leaves in lettuce and basil and flowers in artichokes). Are roots of plants veggies?
I eat tomatoes in salads ( veggies) or make sauces with them (veggies again). I call fruit what I eat for desert.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
29 Oct 21
Scientific it’s a fruit. It grows on a vine stock and has seeds on the inside. It’s a fruit!
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