Why tomato is called a fruit?
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Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit and is classified as a berry. It is a fruit because it is a ripened mature ovary containing seed. One can confirm this by looking up both "fruit" and "tomato" in a dictionary. (No not the definition of old slang that says a "tomato" is an attractive woman). Things like peppers, eggplants and cucumbers are also fruits by this definition.\n\nHorticulturally speaking it is defined as a vegetable for two other reasons:\n1- it is a nonwoody annual (ok, what I want to know then why dont they say watermelons are vegetables?)\n2- it was classified this way in 1893 by the Supreme Court for trade reasons (imposing import taxes to protect growers)
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Nope, just like tomato seeds and banana seeds don't. The reason is,they pass through your system and the feces provide an ideal growing environment for a seedling.
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What most people call seeds on the outside of the strawberry fruit are actually\nthe true fruits. Technically, they are achenes. In an achene, the single seed is\nenclosed by the ovary wall. A sunflower fruit is also an achene.\n\nA strawberry "fruit" is unusual because the red, fleshy part is the enlarged\nreceptacle. The receptacle is the enlarged tip of the flowering stem to which\nthe petals, sepals, stamens and carpels are attached. The strawberry is said to\nhave an accessory fruit because much tissue other than the ovary is part of the\n"fruit". Apples and pineapples are also accessory fruits.\n\nThe strawberry is also termed an aggregate fruit because it is formed from many\nseparate carpels of a single flower. Other aggregate fruits are raspberry and\nblackberry. \n\nSome people mistakenly refer to strawberries as a multiple fruit. In a multiple\nfruit, the carpels of several flowers merge to form the fruit. Pineapple and\nfigs are multiple fruits.
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when an egg is fertilized by a pollen, it begins its development in the ovary. the ovary wall then becomes the fruit. a fruit is a product of reproduction.\n\nthe terms fruits and vegetables were probably coined to differentiate commercial plant products. fruit still refers to fertilized ovary wall while a vegetable refers to edible plant parts other than the fruit. \n\njust like carrot. it is actually the root that is why it is classified as vegetable. an apple is a fruit since it is from the fertilized ovary and the flower's receptacle.\n\none factor to look out for is the seed. a seed is a fertilized ovule. if you're whether something's a fruit or a vegetable, try to look for seeds. when you see some, then that's probably an ovary, since an ovary houses ovules.\n\nabout your question, pumpkins, olives and tomatoes are all fruits.
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The main purpose of plants having fruits is to reproduce. So fruits are generally round so that it will roll a longer distance when it's ripped and drop from the tree. This ensures that the fruit will have a higher chance of survival.
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NOT TOMATOES! TOMATOES ARE A FRUIT! Potatoes aren't either.\n\nI like, uh, uhhhhhh, I can't chose:\n\nLettuce probably,\nOr Carrots,\nOr Peppers\n\nNo, definately peppers. Pepper rules! Even my puppy agrees, pepper is her favorite. Her favorite fruit is banana's. Mine is oranges/pineapples. It depends.
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Do you mean tangerine? If so, yes a tangerine is a fruit.
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it sure can.  it's sterile, and has electrolytes and sugar.  it lacks red/white blood cells though.  but what do you expect from a fruit?
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You're right, it's not the best analogy.  Apples and oranges are both fruits, they both grow on trees, they both have seeds in the middle; however, they have differences: you can eat the skin of an apple and not an orange, an orange has segments, but an apple doesn't.  I guess it's all in the way you look at it!
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if they start leaking juice its too much water above the root system.if thats not it and they just split they are ready to pick.but you didnt say if they are green or red agitation from water can make those tomatoes split as well as too much fertilizer or plant food
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I loved your Menudo answer. You had me laughing. OK, on to the question, though - great segue there, huh- pomegranates and blueberries are high in antioxidants. They have the highest content of any fruits. I think it's a head-to-head competition, albeit, people don't eat pomegranates in the US very often because they're a pain in the @ss & very messy (very sweet, but a lot of seeds like a tomato... tastes like a tomato/tangerine, too- tomatoes are fruits, too, for scientific purposes)... Blueberries are fantastically easy to grow and just as high in antioxidants. What are these antioxidants? They help with cell regeneration. Most cells in our bodies have high turnover naturally and because of free radicals in the environment, they get damaged... I imagine it's like working at Wal-Mart... being a cell. In any case, antioxidants help cells. That, in turn, helps our bodies stay younger, which leads to overall longevity.
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Popularly, the fruit has been identified as an apple (perhaps as a Latin pun of 'malus' sounding like 'evil' and 'apple'), although the Bible does not identify the fruit as an apple. Judaism teaches that the fruit may have been either grape, fig, wheat, or citron.\n\nIn the philosophical novel Ishmael, the story of eating the forbidden fruit is described as a metaphor for the loss of quality of life caused by the change from hunter-gatherer culture to an agriculture-based society.\n\nThe term "forbidden fruit" is a popular metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained. The phrase comes from the Bible, where it is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. According to the narrative, as a result of eating this fruit, Adam and Eve lost their innocence, began to know good and evil, and were exiled from the garden where they were forced to adopt agriculture for a living. The concept of "knowing" good and evil can be best understood as being emotionally entangled with the struggle of determing the difference.
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Fruit and vegetables contain vitamins, minerals and trace minerals as well as phytohormones and fibers. All these ingedigents are important in human diet but are included less and less in modern diets. They are supposed to have been mainstays of human diet in the past but not any more. \nThis is the reason why the recommendations name them - to remind us to eat them
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i would assume it would have something to do with not having to stake plants up, etc..they would grow straighter, because their fruits, branches, etc would not weigh them down as much.  i.e. tomatoes would not have to be staked up but would naturally grow straighter and keep their fruit off the ground.
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"You shall take the first of every fruit of the ground produced by the land that God your Lord is giving you. You must place it in a basket, and go to the site that God will choose as the place associated with His name." (Deuteronomy 26:2) \n\n\nNow I'm no bible thumper...but I asked the same question when I went to my Grandfather's funeral.  Why the heck were we bombarded with bananas and pineapples and pomegranets and such....fruit is supposed to symbolize the world of creation. Life.
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Was your ex-spouse a vegetable? It beets me. Was he a good provider. What kind of celery did he make? You sound cool as a cucumber. So that should squash that idea. You must be one hot tomato(actually a fruit) so please lettuce us alone.
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manufacturers add sugars and other stuff to juice that's no good for you. fruits have only natural sugars.