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  Posted by Vansh Arora on December 8, 2023 at 7:02 pm

  is tomato a fruit or a vegetable

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  Utkarsh Yadav

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  December 15, 2023 at 1:26 pm

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  A tomato is a fruit. It develops from the ovary of a flowering plant after fertilization, and it contains seeds. This is the scientific definition of a fruit.

  But we use it as a vegetable in cooking and in preparation of salads

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  Abhibandita Parija

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  December 15, 2023 at 1:47 pm

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  Fruits and vegetables comprise different parts of a plant. When we broadly look into the matter we realize that fruits are the matured flowers or grow from the flowering part of a plant containing seeds. On the other hand vegetables are all other edible parts of a plant like leaves, stems, roots etc. In the case of a tomato we know that it comes from a flower and definitely has seeds so it is a fruit. Tomato is a fruit because botanically a fruit will at least have one seed and will grow from the flower part of the plant.

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