Is A Tomatoe A Fruit or Vegetable??? My teacher said it be a veggie but I THINK IT IS...
My teacher said it be a veggie but I THINK IT IS A FRUIT!!!!! IT IS NOT A VEGGIE, unless it's in your assessment of course....lol
Answers: Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together near its seeds, of a flowering plant: a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. However, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually call fruits and, from a culinary standpoint, it is typically served as part of a salad or basic course of a meal, as are vegetables, fairly than at dessert, as are fruits. As noted above, the term "vegetable" have no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary possession.
This argument has have legal implication in the United States. In 1887, U.S. tariff law that imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a issue of legal rush. The U.S. Supreme Court settled the controversy in 1893 by declare that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are collectively served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)). The holding of the covering applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes save for paying a tax below a tariff act.
The tomato have been designated the state vegetable of New Jersey. Arkansas took both sides by declare the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in one and the same law, citing both its botanical and culinary classifications. In 2006, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a regulation that would have declared the tomato to be the public servant state fruit, but the bill died when the Ohio Senate failed to feat on it. Tomato juice have been the public servant beverage of Ohio since 1965. A.W. Livingston, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio played a large piece in popularizing the tomato contained by the late 1800s.
We use it resembling a vegetable, but botanically it's a fruit because it's a plant ovary containing seeds.