• Question: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

    Asked by penguin123 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Apparently it is actually a fruit, but commonly considered a vegetable:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

      I’m surprised!

    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Yep I thought it’s a fruit because it has seeds. I think in cooking it’s sometimes considered a vegetable because it’s savoury.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      In a botanical sense, fruit is just a casing for seed dispersal, made from the flowering part of the plant. So that includes fruit we know of traditionally, but also things like runnerbeans, aubergines, and yes, tomatoes.

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