Tomato: Is it a fruit or vegetable??...

It's a fruit.

I don't put fruit on my hamburger.

Never had avocado on your burger?

Or pineapple? Or maybe that's just me >.>

NOPE......

Despite the fact that a tomato is full of seeds and thus classified as a fruit?

Just because it isn't sweet doesn't mean it isn't a fruit. Remember, this tomato is part of the nightshade family of plants. Most of the rest of the plant is highly toxic.

i don't know why though

I personally eat it as a vegetable.

Most do because it's a savory fruit rather then a sweet one.

But I never understood why.

A tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, this is a scientific fact. However, cooks use it as a vegetable as its properties to a cook are far more vegetable in nature.

Fruit, because vegetables reproduce asexually, and fruit do not, and neither do tomatoes.
In short, tomatoes are sexy!

its a vegitable so just shut up

Don't be rude. Honestly there no need for that

It's a berry.

I'm told it's a fruit because it grows on a vine, instead of below the earth like a potato.

Beans grow on a vine and they are a vegetable.

Legume, along with peas lentils & peanuts

this is what I was told.

fruit

Let's just say it's good for you and leave it at that.

because it grows on a vine it classified as a fruit

A vegetable is a stock, root or leaf.

Fruits have seeds like tomato, peppers, cucumber, etc

You're a fruit.

What about peas then?

Some plant products, such as corn or peas, may be considered to be vegetables only while still unripe.

So, we eat corn, and peas when they are ripe. By this logic they are fruits?

Honestly I only copied Wikipedia.

haha, fair enough. :)

im pretty sure but i think it should be considered a vegetable

Its a Vegetable to me

It grows on a vine and has seeds

Green beans grow on a vine and they have seeds.

Green beans are legumes. A part of the bean family, They grow into pods unlike tomatoes.

it's a fruit

It tastes like a vegetable though.

In the culinary sense of these words, a fruit is usually any sweet-tasting plant product, especially those associated with seeds; a vegetable is any savoury or less sweet plant product; and a nut is any hard, oily, and shelled plant product.

These culinary vegetables that are botanically fruit include cucurbits (e.g., squash, pumpkin, and cucumber), tomatoes, peas, beans, corn, eggplant, and sweet pepper. In addition, some spices, such as allspice and chilies, are fruits, botanically speaking. In contrast, rhubarb is often referred to as a fruit, because it is used to make sweet desserts such as pies, though only the petiole (stalk) of the rhubarb plant is edible. Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., pine nuts, ginkgo nuts.

Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, wheat or rice, is also a kind of fruit, termed a caryopsis. However, the fruit wall is very thin, and is fused to the seed coat, so almost all of the edible grain is actually a seed.[8]

Many common terms for seeds and fruit do not correspond to the botanical classifications. In botany, seeds are ripened ovules; fruits are the ripened ovaries or carpels that contain the seeds and a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed.

I meant to put other... IT'S WHATEVER IT WANTS TO BE. Bl

It's a fruit.

It has seeds, still people consider it a vegetable since it's not sweet.

There is an interesting history of why Tomatoes are actually fruit...involving a legal case in New York.....