Tomatoes: Fruit or Vegetable?

[mpw]

Sorry

No worries btw bananas are actually herbs ya'know.

 

[sushi]

Yeah, couldn't have said it better myself.

Not to be picky...

You said:

It is knowledge that tells us a tomato is a fruit.
It is wisdom that tells us not to put it in a fruit salad.

Much Ado said:

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.

I like Much Ado's verbiage better. Shorter and more concise!

But great minds, yours and Ado's think alike.

I once dated a girl who would eat tomatoes like apples. I guess she was firmly in the "tomatoes are fruit" camp.

I've seen that too.

Messy...

 

[Gray-Wolf]

This thread makes me want to pick up a tomato and make a sliced tomato sandwich tomorrow for lunch. A little Mayo, some salt and pepper and it s ready to go on whole wheat

 

[nick9191]

FYI, the strawberry is a false fruit (or an accessory fruit) as the fleshy part is not derived from the ovary, but from adjacent tissue.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

It can still be looked at as the fruit of the plant.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Ooh, what do I win?

Wow, fast thread.

Well, you have been patient, and I have no idea what it holding up WildCowboy with your navel lint.

I'll send him a PM right away.

 

[sushi]

This thread makes me want to pick up a tomato and make a sliced tomato sandwich tomorrow for lunch. A little Mayo, some salt and pepper and it s ready to go on whole wheat

Sounds good.

Eating some sliced tomatoes tonight.

 

[Apple Ink]

A tomato is essentially an ovary with its seeds, as quoted by wiki!
To go in detail, once a seed develops, it keeps some layers of food around itself as nutrition!
Two of the most common types of these layers are of course, nuts as we know them and berries! Berries have an edible pericarp with division of endo/meso/exo-carp! Second is nut has a dried up pericarp! Any thing else is a false fruit (eg: Apple, strawberry). Since tomato has an edible pericarp, its a FRUIT.
Info source:Biology Major now in Med School!