Is Tomato a Fruit?
A vegetable is an edible plant or part of a plant, but usually excludes seeds and most sweet fruit. This typically means the leaf, stem, or root of a plant.
The non-biological definition of a vegetable is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary, based on cultural and/or personal views. Vegetables are most often cooked in savoury or salty dishes. However, a few vegetables can be used in desserts and other sweet dishes, such as pumpkin pie and carrot cake. A fruit on the other hand is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, one or more ovaries, and in some cases accessory tissues. Fruits are the means by which these plants disseminate seeds. Many of them that bear edible fruits, in particular, have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed dispersal and nutrition, respectively; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output. Fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas. On the other hand, the botanical sense of "fruit" includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, and tomatoes. The word 'fruit' literally means 'reproducing, fertility' and that is what seeds are for. Any 'fruit' must have seeds and all foods with seeds must be fruit. This makes the literal meaning correct. All fruit have seeds and that applies to all fruit. If a "vegetable" has seeds, then actually it is a fruit. This is simply a technical thing about
Fruit. All fruit have seeds and anything with seeds is fruit. The word "tomato" may refer to the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) or the edible, typically
The non-biological definition of a vegetable is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary, based on cultural and/or personal views. Vegetables are most often cooked in savoury or salty dishes. However, a few vegetables can be used in desserts and other sweet dishes, such as pumpkin pie and carrot cake. A fruit on the other hand is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, one or more ovaries, and in some cases accessory tissues. Fruits are the means by which these plants disseminate seeds. Many of them that bear edible fruits, in particular, have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed dispersal and nutrition, respectively; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output. Fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas. On the other hand, the botanical sense of "fruit" includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, and tomatoes. The word 'fruit' literally means 'reproducing, fertility' and that is what seeds are for. Any 'fruit' must have seeds and all foods with seeds must be fruit. This makes the literal meaning correct. All fruit have seeds and that applies to all fruit. If a "vegetable" has seeds, then actually it is a fruit. This is simply a technical thing about
Fruit. All fruit have seeds and anything with seeds is fruit. The word "tomato" may refer to the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) or the edible, typically