Tomato: Is it a fruit or vegetable??...
Jersey Roze ♥Jwon's Cyar'ika ♥
2012/06/12 00:50:10
|
|
|||||
|
83 votes
|
|
71% | ||
|
19 votes
|
|
16% | ||
|
15 votes
|
|
13% | ||
Top Opinion
-
Fruit...
+4"Vegetable" is not a scientific term; it's a culinary term. Fruit is both scientific and culinary. A scientific fruit is the fruit of the plant...what is essentially the ovary. It has the seeds. A tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant. Culinarily speaking, a fruit that is not sweet is often considered a vegetable, such as cucumber, squash, tomato, etc.
The technical definition of a fruit: a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries.
Note: A vegetable, in culinary terms, is simply any edible plant product with a less sweet or savory taste. This includes many edible foods that are botanically fruit, such as squash, cucumber, eggplant, tomato, sweet pepper, pumpkin, corn kernels, and nuts. Fruits DO NOT have to be sweet.
fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant, which is exactly what a tomato is
...
Do you think they heard me? :)