Tomato fruit or vegetable?

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V8 IS MADE OF TOMATOES. Am I right?

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excellent point. but it is a fruit.

Did you not go to elementary school?

I always assumed this was something everybody learned at some point in their lives. Like how mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Agriculturally classified as a vegetable, but scientifically a fruit.

EDIT: Yeah, that ^

I've known it was a fruit since like 1st grade,..guess you missed that day.

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Botanically it is a fruit, for culinary purposes it is a vegetable.

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Pretty much this. Tomatoes, peppers, & eggplant are categorized as "fruit vegetables", culinary speaking, because scientifically they are fruit but in the kitchen they are used like vegetables.

Technically, all fruits are vegetables.

All that night shift made you a dumas

Vegetables are determined by what part of the plant you actually eat. Leaves (lettuce) roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), etc.

The fruit is the mature, fully grown, ovary of the plant. So the tomato is botanically a fruit.

May be a fruit but is used more in the way vegetables are.

Grown in a vegetable garden.
Put in vegetable soup.