Is it Fruit or Vegetable?

[yenieta]

Fruits and vegetables are good for health and these contains vitamins in it, which may helps in cure from many of diseases and also makes your skin younger in age and beautiful, acne free.

I agree with you, Liz. I have an autoimmune disease, vitiligo ;and here is my personal experience of eating fruits and vegetables: http://yenieta.com/healthy

[jacobjh]

Tomatoe technically is fruit but shelved with vegetables.

[JennyG]

It’s technically a fruit, but it’s often treated like a vegetable.

[Stelawn]

Hahaha it seems very funny as we all know both are as much as important. Its difficult to skip from our lives.

[Satyamambala12]

Tomato is a fruit but it is eaten as Vegetable like salad or in foods.

[busyvegetarians]

I just eat them, I don’t care if is fruit or vegetable, taste good and is much better than eat a chicken.

[Nanny]

Botanically, a tomato is a fruit:

the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant.

However, the tomato is not as sweet as most foods eaten as fruit, and is typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, rather than at dessert.

It is therefore considered a vegetable for most culinary purposes. One exception is that tomatoes are treated as a fruit in home canning practices: they are acidic enough to be processed in a water bath rather than a pressure cooker as “vegetables” require. Tomatoes are not the only foodstuff with this ambiguity: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds are all botanically fruits, yet cooked as vegetables.

[Hellen19]

Here is the answer for your question I found out at website: oxforddictionaries.com
The confusion about ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a ‘fruit’, though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry is an example.
As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits, such as tomatoes or bean pods, may be called ‘vegetables’ because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The term ‘vegetable’ is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term ‘fruit’ may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example.
So, the answer to the question is that a tomato is technically the fruit of the tomato plant, but it’s used as a vegetable in cooking.

[Annastock]

I think tomato is vegetable.

[Eugenia]

I am vegan for 8 years, my husband and son eat meat, i would really love my son to be a vegan too, but of course, i can not force him to stop eating meat. He thinks i make him study Mathbecause want him to be an engineer, and it is already enough. As for me I prefer to eat vegetables, cause there so many recipes i cook every day.

[expialidocious]

Is its flavor fruity or vegetal? Or would it go with salt… that’s it I think, vegetables are the salted plants (in culinary terms).

[expialidocious]

Here’s my question: do people with plates in their lips prefer fruits or vegetables? Well I suppose cream corn would work with that! As far as flavoring goes, grains like corn are in between a fruit and vegetable, where they can be salted and sweetened at the same time, and taste better that way (or that’s a matter of taste, like a plate in the lip).

[EvaLiuba]

Avocados

Avocado, scientific name Persea americana, belongs to the family Lauraceae of the order Laurales. It shares the same family with camphor and cinnamon. Known by different names in different regions, avocados are highly valuable plants all over the world. Among the several cultivars, the Hass avocado is the most sought after variety. Though, it is easy to grow an avocado tree from seeds, it takes about six years to bear fruit. Considering this, commercial plantation of avocados is done using grafted plantlets. Read more on how to grow an avocado tree.

Avocados are enriched with various types of macronutrients and micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals, fats, dietary fiber, carotenoids, calcium, magnesium and potassium. Considering the fact that avocados are free of sodium and cholesterol, the nutritional value of avocado has been studied from the health perspective. So we actually know a lot about these wonderful avocados. The most confusing question for many of us is whether avocado is a fruit or a vegetable. Let’s take a look at the various concepts that have been put up regarding avocados.

Avocado, Fruit or Vegetable: Botanical Aspect
In botany, fruit is the reproductive organ and/or seed bearing part of the plant. Hence, botanically speaking, there is no doubt that the avocado is a fruit and not a vegetable. It belongs to the berry type of fruits. Nevertheless, there are several true fruits that are used as vegetables in our day-to-day lives such as peas, tomatoes, chillies, peppers, cereal grains, etc. In fact, as far as the botanical definition of fruit is concerned, there are no true vegetables as such. Read more on tomato - fruit or vegetable.

Avocado, Fruit or Vegetable: Culinary Aspect
Avocados are often used as vegetables in the kitchen. They are widely included as a vegetable ingredient in salads and other savory meals. Avocados are also used as vegetables in a variety of cuisines and traditional food recipes. Occasionally, an avocado is used as fruit in dessert recipes and ice creams. Hence, in terms of culinary aspect, the avocado can be considered both as a fruit and as a vegetable.

Avocado, Fruit or Vegetable: Common Aspect
For a layman, fruits are borne in trees, while most vegetables are grown as herbs and at times, as shrubs. Since avocados are harvested from trees, they are included in the fruit category. Another common aspect that categorized avocado as a fruit, is that the majority of the species belonging to the Lauraceae family are fruit trees. In addition, avocados continue to ripen after being plucked from the tree, which is a characteristic feature of most fruits. If you search for avocados, you will find them in the fruit market with other varieties of fruits. Hence, in this case also, avocados belong to fruits and not to vegetables.

Well, this was a brief regarding the query ‘is avocado a fruit or vegetable’. So the answer as to whether avocado is a fruit or a vegetable, depends entirely on your perspective. Many people are of the opinion that avocados are actually fruits, but taste like vegetables. To be precise, avocados are considered both as fruits and vegetables in our day-to-day usage. On a simpler note, it does not matter if the avocado belongs to any group, either fruits or vegetables, as long as it is incorporated in the diet plan.

Wow, this is very interesting!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[EvaLiuba]

I think tomato is vegetable.

I also think so)

[happyvegan]

I was always told a tomato is a fruit as it has seeds

[katebrownell]

I thought it is vegetable because most of the time we cook it with other veggies. I also prefer eating it raw. So nevermind, if it is fruit or veggie. It is helpful for health that’s enough for me

[sassyinpink]

i love it as a fruit or vegetables if the tomato is tasty! haha i prefer the small tomatos, easier to eat as a snack.

[Traceyphillips]

Is a Potato a Vegetable
As if the question about fruits and vegetables wasn’t perplexing enough, there is now another very confusing question, is a potato a vegetable. So is it?

Potato Root Vegetable

We all know the potato, the vaguely spheroid food item (let’s not call it a fruit or a vegetable before we establish, what it is for sure!) is an important part of several delicacies all over the world. Few cuisines you will ever find that completely shun the potato. And even if they do, they’d be pretty silly to! But the potato does enjoy overwhelming popularity all over the world, due to its extensive production. Its high carbohydrate content powers a lot of the world, so to speak.

But is potato fruit or vegetable, or for that matter any fruit vs vegetable questions are pretty much like the chicken-came-first-or-egg, family of questions. So I’m afraid the only way to ascertain the true class to which this humble and popular food item belongs, is by using the definitions of several food items set forth by humans. So now we’ll see the definition of fruits and vegetables which will put the question of is a potato a vegetable beyond doubt once and for all

Fruits
What we Know: In colloquial usage, it is widely accepted, unknowingly so, that a fruit is something which has a sweet/sour taste and a juicy texture. Fruits are supposed to be essentially something which you can make a juice out of! Another very widely accepted colloquial definition of fruits is if you can make an ice cream flavor of it, it is a fruit. Because, there are fruit flavored ones, yet we haven’t (or at least I haven’t) seen a broccoli flavored ice cream!

What it Is: As the definition goes, a fruit is something which has seeds, which facilitate the procreation of that plant in the future. Biologists say something which can be very complicated to understand, but the crux of the definition is that the fruit is a part of a flowering plant which is derives the ovaries from specific tissues of the flower. So if the thing comes from a flowering plant and has seeds, it is safe to assume that it is a fruit. So since the potato has no seeds whatsoever, we can firmly conclude that the potato is most certainly not, by an stretch of imagination, a fruit. So is a potato a vegetable or starch-rich food item?

Vegetables
What We Know: Can we call something we cannot make an ice-cream or juice out of a vegetable? Well then carrots most certainly make an interesting exception! But generally speaking, if the food item is not a fruit, and comes on a tree, it is a vegetable. Which still doesn’t solve our problem, as a potato comes under a tree!

What it is: Vegetables have been defined over the ages as stuff that is edible and on a plant. So as long as it has something to do with a plant, can be eaten and doesn’t carry its genitals, it is a vegetables. So the leaves, the the buds, the seeds too come under the category of vegetables.

Potatoes
And the roots? Yes, even the roots. But since the definition of vegetables is so unclear, the potato falls under an informal sub-category of vegetables, known as root vegetables or tuberous vegetables. They qualify as vegetables on their merit of being edible tree-based items without any ovaries.

Now that you know, learn how to cook some great stuff with potatoes. Read on for some potato recipes.

So, I think now I have firmly laid to rest, the question about, is a potato a vegetable. Yes, it most certainly is.

=Buzzle.com=

Potatoes are definitely vegetables. A packet of crisps are a part of my 5 a day