The Great Debate: The Tomato Debate.

[PinkStar]

Yep. Its a new debate! You know the rules. So here is your debate Q.

IS the Tomato a fruit, or veggie?

[Tanitsja]

well the vegetable chategory is a term of comon folk talk, its not a scientific term as such...its a clasification we use in cullinary...and the tomato as such is a vegitable (akin to if enough people say a breed is a breed it is so, or if the breeders themself say its a breed it is a breed logic defination)

the debate i know come up for wheter we sort it wrong based on scientific evidence that i may indeed be a fruit...as such i went looking to find what they found scientificly

and acording to wiki (summed up in my own words bellow)
the tomato corectly scientificly sorted...its a fruit or more precisely a berry


so scentificly its a berry

on comon terms language where comon people do not use the same definations as the science (ie we sort plants into corn, herbs&spices, berries, fruit, and vegetables as distinct different usage) the tomato is cullianary a vegetable

and neither is actualy wrong because the two are different sets of terms, because we are talking about corect scientific family relation based on genetic for the one, and for the other genetics dont come into it as we are purely talking about culianary usage of a plant

so i am sure there are more then the tomato who between the two chategories of taging has different sorting based on wheter you view it from a scientific view, or a cullinary view

as such its not an either or, but more of a question wheter you want the cullinary or the scientific answer neither is more wrong then the other

another typical example of this is the rosehip, scientificly its a fruit, cullinary it most often get chategories as a herb because the most comon usage for it is in tea or from olden days also in medical usage

[Amara]

Tomato is a fruit because of its seeds

http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-tomato.html

[Bratterratt]

Tomatoes are fruit, ok?

[PinkStar]

I know its A fruit I'm just seeing what other peoples opinions are

[Des_and_Tay]

Well, after reading Amara's article, I'm pretty sure that their opinion of a tomato is going to be that it is a fruit, wouldn't you think?

[SnowKitty]

Fruit.

Period.

[calley22]

Fruit

[lorraine]

tomatoes are totally fruitish(a fruit)

[TomDaForever]

i think that tomatoes are fruit, because you can eat them raw, and most vegetables you can't eat roaw.

[Bratterratt]

There are lots of vegetables you can eat raw! What do you think is in salad?!?!?! (I'm not trying to be rude!)

[Tanitsja]

um actualy a lot of veggies taste a lot better raw then cooked