Tamato: Is it a Fruit or Vegetable

[luminum]

Are you guys nuts? Durians taste awful! Or perhaps it's because taste relies heavily on smell...

Either way: Tomato --> fruit

 

[The Loner]

As long as I put tomatoes in my vegetable salad but not in my fruit cocktail, I will always refer to them as vegetables regardless of what other people say.

 

[unloadonme]

All fruits are vegetables, but not all vegetables are fruits. Some fruits (such as tomatoes) are eaten as vegetables and some vegetables (such as rhubarb) are eaten as fruits.

 

[metta]

Tomatoes are a fruit but I don't eat it like one.

 

[Kahaih]

Tomatoes are a fruit but I don't eat it like one.

But, you're a vegetarian??

Surely you have enjoyed sun dried tomatoes on a pizza the way some enjoy pineapple.

Or even sun dried tomatoes as a snack?

 

[Kahaih]

Next up;

Pizza = fruit pie, or vegetable pie?

And;

Salad olives = fruit or vegetable?

 

[Vannie]

Cabbage: Delicious vegetable or Weapon of mass destruction?

 

[Alistair]

^ odiferous vegetable.

 

[metta]

But, you're a vegetarian??

Surely you have enjoyed sun dried tomatoes on a pizza the way some enjoy pineapple.

Or even sun dried tomatoes as a snack?

My favorite pizza is margherita pizza. Definitely tomatoes and basil.

 

[metta]

Cabbage: Delicious vegetable or Weapon of mass destruction?

I love la curtido on my papusas. Yum.... fermented cabbage.

 

[me203]

As I've heard: "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not using tomatoes in a fruit salad."

 

[pigface]

As I've heard: "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not using tomatoes in a fruit salad."

Tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, avocado pear, green and red peppers - that would be a fine salad, and each ingredient a fruit.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Teadrinker has it right:

in botanical terms, the piece of a plant that contains the seeds is a fruit; in gardening terms whether it's a fruit depends mostly on how it's used.

Seeds do not make someting 100% a fruit.

Here you go, the most confusing defination I've ever read in my lifetime but provided by Webster's English Dictionary.

fruit
1. fruit \'fru:t\ n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L fructus fruit, use, fr. fructus, pp.
of frui)] often attribX to enjoy, have the use of - more at BROOK 1a: a
product of plant growth - usu. used in pl. 1b1: the usu. edible
reproductive body of a seed plant; esp : one h aving a sweet pulp
associated with the seed 1b2: a succulent plant part used chiefly in a
dessert or sweet course 1c: a dish, quantity, or diet of fruits 1d: a
product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or ap
pendages; specif : the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents 2:
OFFSPRING, PROGENY 3: CONSEQUENCE, RESULT

All fruits are vegetables, but not all vegetables are fruits. Some fruits (such as tomatoes) are eaten as vegetables and some vegetables (such as rhubarb) are eaten as fruits.

(Apologies to Paul, but I cannot get the multiquote to include quotes from Page 1 of the thread with his from Page 2.)

Paul is correct. It is a difference between botanical nomenclature and culinary. The culinary drives the gardening distinctions that Kuli mentioned.

As the definition states, if the food is served as a sweet dish or dessert, it becomes a fruit course.

 

[Natello4]

Fruitegetable

 

[lockeroomguy]

Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

 

[LilBit]

(Apologies to Paul, but I cannot get the multiquote to include quotes from Page 1 of the thread with his from Page 2.)

Paul is correct. It is a difference between botanical nomenclature and culinary. The culinary drives the gardening distinctions that Kuli mentioned.

As the definition states, if the food is served as a sweet dish or dessert, it becomes a fruit course.

This. The word "fruit" has different meanings depending on the context. The word "vegetable" has no botanical definition, only a culinary one.

On a separate note, my favorite fruit is Dan Levy.

 

[FPNY]

nothin to say then, apparently same now......I'm rarely speechless...but here I am, nothin....blank

 

[Peloso]

The tamato is a variety of berry, like watermelons or tomatoes.

 

[Kahaih]

The tamato is a variety of berry, like watermelons or tomatoes.

Hence the pizza pie.

 

[pigface]

Watermelon on a pizza... That's something to try.