Tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

Generally, a fleshy growth originating from a flower and carry seeds isconsidered a fruit. So a gourd or cucumber or pea pod is a fruit too.
A potato fails because it does not come from the flower and is part of theroot, cabbage and spinach and is leaves and stems, etc.

Botanically speaking, anything that bears seeds is a fruit. The fruit formsfrom the reproductive part of the plant, i.e., the flower. The ovary of theflower becomes the fruit and inside the seeds form. So a tomato comes fromthe flower and inside are the seeds. So it is a fruit. A nut is a seed andthe shell is the fruit. Anything from a part of the plant that is not theflower is vegetative, i.e., does not reproduce. So leaves, stems and rootsare vegetables. So lettuce, carrots and potatoes are vegetables.
A fruit is a seed bearing structure derived from the flower, and is notnecessarily edible. A "vegetable" in human dietary terms, is any edible,non-seed bearing part of a plant.

Its finally concluded that tomato is a fruit not a vegetable.







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