Tomato Is Consider As Fruits ? Vegetables?

[littlebigone]

This forum has met it's needs of discussing what a tomato is. I want to close this forum so that discussions are more organized. If we want to discuss other things, then we should post them in the correct places.

As i see it, the forum topic is getting old and people are starting to talk about cooking and culture, etc

[__earth]

From wikipedia

In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would be plum, apple, and orange. However, a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plants they come from. Fruits that might not be considered such in a culinary context include gourds (e.g. squash and pumpkin), maize, tomatoes, and green peppers. These are fruits to a botanist, but are generally treated as vegetables in cooking. Some spices, such as allspice and nutmeg, are fruits. Rarely, culinary "fruits" are not fruits in the botanical sense, such as rhubarb in which only the sweet leaf petiole is edible.

so, in botanical sense, it's fruit. in kitchen sense, it's veggie.

I guess it is pretty simple. Fruit is produced by the flowering plant by its flower. Anyone can give me an example of a veggie which is produced by flower? I don't mean the flower itself but fruit is "transformed" by flowers, I am not sure I used the correct word or not

~ roy ~

A monkey wont eat tomato, instead it prefer to eat fruits
so tomato is not a fruit.

I'm just seeing things from a child's perpective