Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?

12/9/2019

Everyone has heard of the age-old question of whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. Science says it's a fruit, smart people say it's a vegetable. The simple answer is, of course, it’s a vegetable because you don’t put tomatoes in fruit salad unless you’re weird. The tomato argument, however, affects much more than just tomatoes. By letting tomatoes into the fruit category, you must also let cucumbers, peppers, and even squash into the fruit category. All of these foods are technically fruits due to how they are grown as well as where their seeds are located, but there are exceptions to this rule. Attention needs to be brought to this matter as it is unacceptable for any of these vegetables to infiltrate the fruit family.

A fruit is a flavor, not a definition. This is why we say peppers, squash, and cucumbers are vegetables. No one considers a pepper a fruit because they don’t taste like fruits. No matter what you think - tomatoes don’t taste like fruit either. Taste, this is why they are vegetables! Think of it this way, if a tomato is a fruit, that means that you put fruit on burgers, pizzas, and lasagna! Meatballs do not go with fruit sauce. It makes you wonder how were these categories created?