Is tomatoe Fruit or Vegetable?

i think it can be classified as both fruit and vegetable. biologically speaking, its really a fruit since it has seeds and had grown from a seed. commercially, its classified as a vegetable. you seldom find tomatoes being displayed together with oranges,apples and other other fruits. you will mostly, if not always, find it in the vegetable section of the store.

Is it really a vegetable? huh?! lol, whatever comes from a flower that has seeds is called a fruit and tomatoes is one of that but it seems we always classified it as a vegetable because it's not in the side of apples and oranges on the top of the table but you can find it in the lower part of your fridge with the veggies, the chiller (i am right with this part?) lol!

Tomato is both a vegetable & a fruit ! see more details here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

for me it's always been a vegetable and it always will be :)

Yeah, it is - but the fact is majority of peoples used it as a vegetable. So I go for vegetable.

To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS? If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables. Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores. Certain fruits like tomatoes and green beans will probably always be mostly referred to as "vegetables" in today's society. NOW YOU KNOW!

i know that vegetable.

I have heard that Tomato is a fruit, but we use it as a vegatable normally. I still believe its a Fruit

I've always thought it was a fruit.

tomatoe is not a fruit... it's is not sweet!!! it's a legum.

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, formerly Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant, typically growing to 1–3 m in height, with a weak, woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. The genus Solanum also contains the eggplant and the potato, as well as many poisonous species. The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together. The fruit is an edible, brightly colored (usually red, from the pigment lycopene) berry, 1–2 cm diameter in wild plants, commonly much larger in cultivated forms. The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple").

Over the years I have known that tomato is a vegetable! I only learned from you now that it is a fruit. Now I'm confused but I really think it's a vegetable.

Yah right tomato is grouped into a vegetable..

As far as I know tomato is a vegetable :P .