Tomato: fruit or vegetable?

A tomato is

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Seed-bearing-yummy-thing-with fructose; Fruit. Any food that bargains good flavor, sugars, and nutrition for seed dispersal by herbivores is a fruit in my understanding.
 
The great Tomato is vegetable by whim of commercial enterprise to avoid paying taxes.
 
'Vegetable' is not clearly defined scientifically. We usually call the non-fruit part of a plant we eat a vegetable, but we also call the 'fruits' of a plant by different names. Technically speaking, a tomato is a berry, one of the divisions of fruit. Nuts, beans and corn are not typically thought of as 'fruits' either, but they are scientifically classified as such. For example, beans and peas are legume fruits.
 
Both.
It is a fruit.
But it is also vegetable.
 
thought of as a veggie... due to uses in salads and stuff... but it contains seeds and a hell of a lot of fructose. Its too squishy to be a veggie anyway.
 
I've always thought it as a vegetable but it is scientifically described as a fruit. I just enjoy the taste of it no matter what the hell it is.:p
 
Duplicate argument my ass !
I didn't have an argument to begin with, I asked a question.
And those were all distinctly different fruits.
I bet more people don't know the answer to the questions I asked then the question you ask here.

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Enmos said:
Duplicate argument my ass !
I didn't have an argument to begin with, I asked a question.
And those were all distinctly different fruits.
I bet more people don't know the answer to the questions I asked then the question you ask here.

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Then you should have given an explanation that would allow them to draw conclusions without individual questions.

Enmos said:
Fruit. I don't feel like explaining. Deal with it..
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Fruit - The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

Vegetable - A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.

It is both.
 
S.A.M. said:
Then you should have given an explanation that would allow them to draw conclusions without individual questions.
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Like you do here ?

The quoted post contains a reaction you allowed in the biology forum.
 
Technically, if there are seeds, it is a fruit.

The term fruit has many different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and the surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.[1]

In cuisine, when food items are called "fruit", the term is most often used for those plant fruits that are edible and sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plums, apples and oranges. But in cooking, the word fruit may also rarely be loosely applied to other parts of a plant, such as the stems of rhubarb, which are made into sweet pies, but which are not botanically a fruit at all.

Although the word fruit has limited use in cooking, in reality a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are botanically speaking, the fruits of various plant species.[2] No single terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits.[3] The cuisine terminology for fruits is quite inexact and is likely to remain so.

The term false fruit (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes applied to a fruit like the fig (a multiple-accessory fruit; see below) or to a plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers. Some gymnosperms, such as yew, have fleshy arils that resemble fruits and some junipers have berry-like, fleshy cones. The term "fruit" has also been inaccurately applied to the seed-containing female cones of many conifers.[4]
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This is really quite simple, from a scientific perspective, it is a fruit. From a taxperson perspective it is a vegetable.
 
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