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| To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or a 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, (botanically) you have a fruit. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruit as well. Along with the fruit from a plant or tree, we often eat the leaves, stems, roots and flowers. Many of these other parts of the plant are typically referred to as vegetables. Now don’t go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores; fruits like tomatoes and green beans are usually (alas, incorrectly) referred to as ‘vegetables’ in most grocery stores and cookbooks. The following is a list of food items that technically are fruits or vegetables: • Flower bud: broccoli, cauliflower, globe artichokes • Seeds: Sweetcorn (maize), peas, beans, popcorn, corn • Leaves: Kale, collard greens, spinach, beet greens, turnip greens, endive, lettuce, tomato • Leaf sheaths: leeks • Buds: Brussels sprouts, capers • Stem: Kohlrabi • Stems of leaves: celery, rhubarb, cardoon • Stem shoots: asparagus, bamboo shoots, and ginger • Tubers: potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes, and yams • Whole-plant sprouts: soybean (moyaski), mung beans, urad, and alfalfa • Roots: carrots, parsnips, beets, radishes, rutabagas, turnips, and burdocks • Bulbs: onions, shallots, garlic • Fruits in the Botanical sense, but used as vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchinis, pumpkins, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, christophene, okra, breadfruit, and avocado, and also the following: Legumes, green beans, snap peas, soybean Information taken from Sciencebob and also Wikipedia |
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