is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable

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09 Dec 2010, 5:33 pm

is it a fruit or vegetable

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09 Dec 2010, 6:01 pm

It is a fruit as it is "the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state"

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09 Dec 2010, 6:17 pm

A fruit, from the point of view of botanists (life scientists who happen to study plants). That said, I treated it as a veggie when I was little.

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09 Dec 2010, 7:02 pm

It should be classed as a vegetable, on account of it tasting awful...

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09 Dec 2010, 9:53 pm

when i see a tomato cut open, so that its quivering glistening seedy internal jelly becomes visible, it turns my stomach. it's like it's ALIVE.

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09 Dec 2010, 10:02 pm

Because it is seed bearing I call it a fruit, as are cucumbers and the squashes.

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