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"A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in
contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs,
tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a
vegetable could not be a fruit." |
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It is common fact that vegetables are never red so a tomato must be a fruit. Don't come with
raddishes, they are not red enough and red cabbage falls foul of trade description. |
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A defintion of a fruit is a (usually) soft bodied fruit off a plant which contains seeds. Tomatoes
have seeds, so there we go. |
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You'll find there is a hazy gray between fruit and vegetable definitions. Your criteria, however,
that they have seeds so therefore they are fruit, is as valid as any other and makes your position
supportable. And I've both heard and read that they are fruit.
And the argument that you use them like a vegetable doesn't prove anything because there are other
fruits used like vegetables, such as plantains. And shoot, even grains like corn get used like
vegetables and those are literally "grains".
In the end it really doesn't matter to much. |
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Yes they are |
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13 Oct 2008 19:22
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