Is Tomato fruit or vegetable?

1] Is tomato fruit or vegetable?

2] What's your nationality?

3] If you're american, what state do you come from?

4] If you're not american, what do people in your country think of it, fruit or vegetable?

This problem might relate to nationalities.

Is Tomato fruit or vegetable?
Well what does it matter tomato is god's love apple so is fruit...but can also be called vegetable in alot of other countries ?
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Reply:1) fruit

2) American (US)

3) Michigan

It's not about nationalities, it's about science. What are the characteristics of fruits vs. vegetables? The characteristics determine that a tomato is a fruit.
Reply:Fruit

Mexican

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Fruit
Reply:Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. However, from a culinary perspective, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and it is typically served as part of a main course of a meal, as are other vegetables, rather than at dessert. As noted above, the term "vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term.



This argument has led to actual legal implications in the United States. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304). Strictly speaking, the holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and not much else. The court does not purport to reclassify tomato for botanical or for any other purpose other than paying a tax under a tariff act. However, the Nix v. Hedden ruling is recognized by the USDA [9].



The tomato has been designated the state vegetable of New Jersey. Arkansas takes both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its botanical and culinary classifications. In 2006, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a law that would have declared the tomato to be the official state fruit, but the bill died when the Ohio Senate failed to act on it.



But due to the scientific definition of a fruit and a vegetable, the tomato still remains a fruit when not dealing with US tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (including zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity.



The grocers' definition is that a tomato is a vegetable based on the fact that fruits are sweet and vegetables are not.
Reply:1) My opinion - Tomato = vegetable

** Have you ever seen anyone put a tomato in a fruit salad?

2) American

3) New York
Reply:Botanically-speaking, the tomato is a fruit and can be further classified as a berry since it is pulpy and has edible seeds.



Most of us use the tomato as we do vegetables, primarily in savory dishes.



In 1893, an importer claimed the tomato as a fruit in order to avoid vegetable import tariffs imposed by the United States. This dispute led to the Supreme Court ruling for taxation purposes that the tomato be classified as a vegetable, since it was primarily consumed in the manner of a vegetable rather than a fruit which was usually used in desserts.



Other botanical fruits classified as vegetables include squash, cucumbers, green beans, corn kernels, eggplants, and peppers.



american from california



didn't know thi was considered a "problem"
Reply:You are getting annoying by asking the same question repeatedly
Reply:why are you asking the same question over again? you just asked this
Reply:1) It is a fruit

2) New Zealand

3) N/A

4) Generally considered a vegetable (but it is a fruit)
Reply:1. I think its a vegetable, but they say it's a fruit.

2. I am half filipino, half caucasian

3. I'm from California.
Reply:Fruit!!



And this is not what I'm saying my Botany teacher said it was. It's because of the seeds inside. I'm brown.



My teacher on the other hand is



2. white



3. american



4. republican..whoop!
Reply:a tomato is a fruit. you can tell whether something is a fruit or vegetable if it has seeds or not. think about it: tomatoes, cucumbers and avacadoes are fruit because they have seeds or a seed. ummm....i don't know what the other questions have to do with tomatoes, but if you really want to know..... 1. fruit 2. my family is from yemen 3. i was born in orange county, california
Reply:I'm going for numbers 0 and 1. In biology class, we learned that there is no such thing as a vegetable because the pretty and possibly edible part of a plant is the "fruit" of the plant, BUT our teacher forgot to show us a particular page in our biology book. This page differentiated between fruits and vegetables: fruits have a high concentration of sugars, and vegetables have a high concentration of fats. So...tomatoes seem too bitter to be a fruit to me, but I love 'em! I'm tempted to say vegetable, but every other (white) Smart Alec in Texas will say it is a fruit and that there is no such thing as a vegetable.
Reply:1. Both. Botanically fruit but vegetable for cooking.

2. American

3. Alaska
Reply:It is a fruit.



I am Mexican, Italian and Spanish



3 is N/A



People in my country... i'm not sure, I grew up in the U.S. so we use it here as a vegetable.



I think everyone uses it more as a vegetable.
Reply:vegetable
Reply:Tomato is a fruit! Yep sure is :)



The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum (syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum), formerly Lycopersicon esculentum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant, which is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a perennial plant, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual plant, typically reaching to 1–3 m (3 to 10 feet) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.



The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together. The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple").



History:



According to Andrew F Smith's The Tomato in America,[1] the tomato probably originated in the highlands of the west coast of South America. Smith notes there is no evidence the tomato was cultivated or even eaten before the Spanish arrived. Other researchers, however, have pointed out that this is not conclusive, as many other fruits in continuous cultivation in Peru are not present in the very limited historical record. Much horticultural knowledge was lost after the arrival of Europeans.



There is a competing theory that says the tomato, like the word "tomato", originated in Mexico, where one of the two apparently oldest "wild" types grows. It is entirely possible that domestication even arose in both regions independently.



In any case, by some means the tomato migrated to Central America. Maya and other peoples in the region used the fruit in their cooking, and it was being cultivated in southern Mexico and probably other areas, by the 16th century. It is thought that the Pueblo people believed those who witnessed the ingestion of tomato seeds were blessed with powers of divination. The large, lumpy tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated and was encouraged in Central America. Smith states this variant is the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes.



Two modern tomato cultivar groups, one represented by the Matt's Wild Cherry tomato, the other by currant tomatoes, both originate by recent domestication of the wild tomato plants apparently native to eastern Mexico.



Ok, I'm an american :), I LOVE tomatoes of any kind fixed almost any way, live in WASHINGTON STATE!! I have 6 tomato plants growing right NOW and they have little green tomatoes on them!
Reply:1. fruit

2. fil

3.

4. i think most people from my country think it's a vegetable...

im quite sure it's a fruit...
Reply:1) Fruit

2) Australian

4) They would probably vote for it over John Howard in the next election. It's a fruit. What do you want to know?
Reply:fruit

half spanish, then irish, italian, and german, and a little bit of french

California
Reply:It's a fruit
Reply:Can be either one, depending on the person. To me its a vegetable. I'm 100% american, born here, lived here. Ancestors came from Germany. Nebraska.

Oh yes for all of you that say if it has seeds, its a fruit.....I say bull! Peas are the seeds, beans are the seeds, Zuchini has seeds, squash has seeds. Spinach bolts and seeds out, All are vegetables. Explain your way out of that!
Reply:It is a fruit.
Reply:A tomato is a fruit, it starts off as a flower like so many other fruits that grow on trees and plants. A cucumber also starts off from a flower. The other questions don't matter, what really does matter is the quality of education in these countries or States that you are referring to.
Reply:1] its a fruit. =]

2] american/filipino/chinese

3] ny
Reply:1. technically, it is classified as a fruit

2. american

3. colorado





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
Reply:It's a Fruit
Reply:true science states there is no such thing as vegetables. None so its technically a fruit.
Reply:vegetable
Reply:It's a fruit. I'm an American born Chinese from N.Y. state. I learned it was a fruit when I was real young in school and also read about it, so I'm sure it's a fruit no matter what nationality you are.
Reply:i know that its a fruit rather than vegetable... we have studied it in biology... if i'm not mistaken... the people here in philippines regard it as vegetable though

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