Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. Therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry . By U.S. tariff laws, a tomato is considered a vegetable . The applicable law defined produce by its use...
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If you are speaking in a botanical, scientific context, then pumpkin, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, tomato and squash are FRUITS because they all have seeds. If you are speaking in culinary terms, they can all be properly called vegetables. H...
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In 1893 , the Supreme Court ruled that the tomato must be considered a vegetable, even though, botanically, it is a fruit. Because vegetables and fruits were subject to different import duties, it was necessary to define it as one or the ot...
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Is a Tomato A Fruit or A Vegetable, and Other Weird Ramblings ... On these cold, gray, winter days, my mind tends to wander down weird pathways. I don't always care for where I end up, but I often enjoy the journey. Here's a few bits of dreck and detritus I considered along the way:
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This article provides both sides of the tomato fruit or vegetable question. ... So, is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? With all that information, it is still tough to tell.
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The fruit forms from the reproductive part of the plant, i.e., the flower. The ovary of the flower becomes the fruit and inside the seeds form. So a tomato comes from the flower and inside are the seeds. So it is a fruit.
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www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bot00/bot00283.htm
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Actually, the tomato is a vegetable fruit! In the scientific sense fruits are mature plant ovaries, but what we eat often includes adjacent or accessory parts of the mother plant. ... Why is a tomato considered a fruit and not a vegetable?
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Pyrethins are derived from ground-up flowers of the chrysanthemum family and are thus considered "natural pesticides" that are even recommended as a last resource by the Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. ... A. First, make sure you are working with an open-pollinated or heirloom tomato, not a hybrid. The latter will...
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www.northerngardening.com/LSfaqs.htm
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Is it a fruit or vegetable? Pumpkin, fruit or vegetable? Tomato, fruit or vegetable? To determine the difference between fruit and vegetable (which has troubled minds since there were such terms as vegetable and fruit,) let’s examine what makes a fruit a fruit and what makes a vegetable ... Would corn be considered a fruit????
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