fruit or vegatable thecommon tomato

[dixiedean]

is a tomato a fruit or a vegatable

[Robinia]

It'a fruit dixiedean.

[oxeyedaisy]

i believe its considered a fruit in scotland,,but here in england we call it a vegetable..i also read some where that some eat it with sugar sprinkled on it..yuk..

[scarett]

The tomato is a fruit , The french call it " pommes d�amour"  meaning love apple. Also in a BBC quiz the answer was fruit.

[gen2]

Botanically, a fruit is the part of the plant that contains the seeds (a changed ovary).  Since the tomato contains seeds, it is a fruit.  Cucumbers, marrows, runner beans, and sugarsnap peas are all fruits.  Incidentally, a strawberry is not a fruit because the seeds are on the outside.  It is known as a false fruit.

[Kingaroo]

Scientifically, there is no such thing as a vegetable. If you are a botanist, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc are all the fruits of their respsective plants.

Grocers and cooks, however, distinguish between sweet and savory fruits, lumping the latter in with other edible plant forms such as leaves (lettuce, spinach), roots (carrots), tubers (potatoes), stems (asparagus), flowers (artichokes) by calling them all vegetables.

[Dom Tuk]

A tomato is a berry

[artee]

The tomato is known as a  'vegetable fruit' in some countries dixie dean.  All the people I know, and all the recipes we use. treat it as  a  savoury. Some nationalities sweeten all sorts of  'vegies', of course. Had a dutch friend who encouraged me to try sugar on lettuce and tomatoes. She said they sweeten just about everything. ( didn't like the combination by the way).  Kingaroo has it in a nutshell I think. 

[morg_monster]

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit...

...Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"