How is a tomatoe a fruit and a vegetable?

I've always wanted to figure that out ,but.... It never really became certain. :) :( :)

It's not. It's a fruit, and only a fruit.

It is USED as a vegetable, but use does not define classification.

A fruit is simply the ripened ovary of a flowering plant. So therefore, most of the time, if it has seeds on the inside, is a fruit. So an avocado is a fruit as well. So are pumpkins, squash, peppers, and eggplant.

Vegetable is a culinary term, not a biological term. Vegetable tends to refer to roots, tubers, gourds, and "fruits" that tend to be less sweet to the human palate. Fruits, culinarily, are sweeter to the human palate. This definition usually includes berries... but berries aren't fruit. They're berries. Seeds on the outside.

Corn isn't a vegetable either. It's a member of the grass family, and therefore a grain. Millions of years of selecting growing and harvesting has yielded a grain that has enough moisture in the kernel to be eaten fresh, like a vegetable.

Its a fruit.

its actually just fruit

Biologically speaking it's a fruit.

Yes

it's a fruit.
but it's classified under vege

There isn't a single vegetable that matches a tomato but there are tons of fruit that do. So it's a fruit.

It's both because while it's technically a fruit, it's eaten like a vegetable.

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