Tomatoes; fruit or vegetable?

[Catnip]

Tomatoes have the characteristics of a vegetable. Other than the seeds, I never would have thought of them as nature's candy.

 

[Six]

Veggie in my opinion. Just by looking at it, tasting it, evertyhing screams Vegetable in it for me. =/

I know there's sour fruits and all, but I dunno, I've considered them veggies my whole life. xD

 

[KingUltros]

Ah, the tomato, what a tumultuous and strange journey you have travelled through.

From a scientific standpoint, a tomato is a fruit. However, "vegetable" has no scientific implications, and is merely a cullinary term. For all intents and purposes, it is technically a fruit, but hold many traits of a vegetable, allowing it to correctly be addressed as either. Although if you are more of a scientist, "fruit" is more botanically correct. If you are a chef, it is much more suitable served as vegetables are, rather than being served as part of desert, as most fruit is.

But, yes. I suppose it is akin to the varied pronunciations of the word "tomato" (among other words in the English language). Both are correct in a sense.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

Well I've heard that technically it's a fruit, but I've always known them to be vegetables.

The way they look and taste just have all the characteristics of a vegetable so I call it that.

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I'd have to say vegetable, it doesn't quite strike me as a fruit when thinking about it. Apples, pears, oranges, bananas...tomatoes >.> They're always on salads and side dishes as well at dinner time which makes it stand out more as a vegetable than a fruit imo >.>

 

[cloudstrife0089]

i would prefer more of frits hahahahahahahaha

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[Gaige]

Apparently they're technically fruits, but for me, they're veggies. They always have been to me, and taste rotten.

 

[Donald Trump]

A tomato is a fruit, there's no debate about it. It's often served with salads which may make it seen like a fruit, and it is different from most other fruits, but it's also different from most vegetables. And there are different kinds of Tomato, cherry tomatoes are very sweet.
They taste quite nice too.

 

[maea]

VEGETABLE.
dude how many time does this need to be discussed ? : p
it always ends with tomatoes being a vegetable.

OKK

 

[Bambi]

I thought I was being lied to when I first found out it was a fruit, it doesn't taste right for fruit at all

I like tomatos though, cherry toms are awesome. Never used to like them mind, but I'l happily much away on them now

 

[Shu]

I would have to say tomatoes are a fruit due to the juice and such, but they really don't come across as one. I love the cherry tomatoes because they have flavor, but a real tomato you'll never see me just pick up and bite into one. I would have to put salt on top of it or something.

 

[Sytec]

Fregetuit - When a fruit or vegetable has charatastics of the other it is known as a Fregetuit.

I'd say a Fregetuit.

 

[AddleBoy]

It's whatever you want it to be. Like a transvestite.

Honestly, I'd say it's a fruit, but it doesn't really matter that much, does it?

 

[Ewan]

"Fruit - noun; the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food"
A tomato fits that definition. But people 'see' it as a vegetable for various reasons but I don't really mind what they call it. It's not that important to me =/

 

[Ness]

From a scientific standpoint, a tomato is a fruit. However, "vegetable" has no scientific implications, and is merely a culinary term.

Well said.

Scientifically, fruits are seed-bearing structures which grow from flowers. This classifies tomatoes (as well as cucumbers and squash) under the fruit category, from a botanical perspective. Generally, we view vegetables as "edible non-fruit thingies", so it is a scientifically loose definition.

However, cucumbers are generally classified as vegetables because they "behave" more like vegetables, from a culinary perspective. I guess The Tomato Debate goes on like this because the tomato sits right in the middle of the "fruit-vegetable" spectrum.

I don't like them either way, so eh.

 

[Catnip]

VEGETABLE.
dude how many time does this need to be discussed ? : p
it always ends with tomatoes being a vegetable.

OKK

Well, botanically, tomatoes are fruits. Knowing this, I still see -and use for that matter- them as a vegetable. I certainly wouldn't add said tomatoes to a sundae or milkshake.

 

[Linnaete]

Tomatoes have always been fruits in a biological point of view. I never liked tomatoes that much, so I don't really care much about them.

For something to be a conventional fruit, they're usually the swellings of the ovaries on flowers following fertilisation of the pollen nucleus inside the ovaries that when ripe, can be eaten. Tomatoes are good examples of this. The edible part of an apple is a receptable around the ovary.

But I despise tomatoes. I don't like vegetables except for broccoli, carrots and choi sum. So tomatoes can fit in the vegetables category for me because I like fruits. Tomatoes are outsiders.

 

[Firion's Babe]

I would have to say both. Tomatoes are the fruit of a vegetable!!!

 

[John Marston]

I always knew it was a fruit, though i can see why so many think otherwise. Its taste and appearance just scream vegetable, but its not.

Makes me think what other veggies out there are really fruit and not veggies at all, there has to be more than just the tomato lol.

 

[Vice Nebulosa]

Fregetuit - When a fruit or vegetable has charatastics of the other it is known as a Fregetuit.

I'd say a Fregetuit.

Hey, I'm in once I can figure out how the hell that is pronounced.

For something to be a conventional fruit, they're usually the swellings of the ovaries on flowers following fertilisation of the pollen nucleus inside the ovaries that when ripe, can be eaten. Tomatoes are good examples of this. The edible part of an apple is a receptable around the ovary.

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