Mankind have been boggling this question for centuries. Is a tomato really a fruit or a vegetable? I think is a vegetable because what I learn at school is that a tomato is really a vegetable 100%.
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The argument I heard was that anything with seeds is a fruit, so avocados and olives can be considered fruits, so with cucumbers, and so on. It's like the argument if Pluto is a planet or an asteroid, or if Earth is conscious or just electromagnetic (which is probably a bad example, considering I am not scientifically apt, at all).
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Biologically speaking, tomatoes are fruits (as are peanuts).
In biology (or botany, if we want to get real technical), any component of a plant (edible or non edible) that contains the seed (there are fancy descriptors involving plant ovaries... Thal probably knows them) is a fruit. That means anything that has seeds, and also most nuts and legumes, plus things like corn cobs and a even certain grains.
Conversely, there is no biological definition of a 'vegetable'. The term 'vegetable' is not a technical term and only exists in culinary and common vernacular contexts.
So what that means is that if you want to argue using common vernacular, a tomato can be described as either a fruit or a vegetable and both are 'correct'. But if you want to use science, it's a fruit and nothing anyone says will change that.
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They are both.
The fruit is the structure which surrounds the seeds, in apples it's that plastic-like substance. The flesh is not, however, the fruit in botany, but in common parlance.
A vegetable is any edible part of a plant, whether stem (celery), flower (artichoke), seed (pea), leaves (cabbage) or 'fruit', including tomato, so its a false dichotomy.
Plant biology is a basic important part of my course.
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From my botany notes:
Fruit: fleshy or dry seed bearing structure that develops from the mature ovary--consists of the carpels (where ovules/seeds develop) and the ovary wall (pericarp, inc. endo-, meso-, and exo/epicarp) and associated structures
*Simple fruits--develop from a single flower containing a single carpel or several fused carpels (ex. cherry, apricot)
*Aggregate fruits--develop from a single flower with multiple separate carpels (ex. blackberry)
*Multiple fruits--develop from multiple flowers (ex. pineapple)
Exocarp (or epicarp)--outer wall of the fruit, "skin"
Mesocarp--middle, often fleshy layer
Endocarp--inner part surrounding seeds
Not from my botany notes because I got sick of typing:
Types of fruits
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I know this is completely not scientific, but for me, if it's sweet, it's a fruit. If it's not, it's a veggie. Tomatoes would taste disgusting in a smoothie with raspberries and pears. Ergo, it's a veggie.
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Re: Tomato: Fruit Or Vegetable
Originally posted by habbalah View PostI know this is completely not scientific, but for me, if it's sweet, it's a fruit. If it's not, it's a veggie. Tomatoes would taste disgusting in a smoothie with raspberries and pears. Ergo, it's a veggie.Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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Originally posted by thalassa View PostYeah, but I put sweet potatoes and carrots in smoothies with bananas and pineapple
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