Botanics and cooking are different domains with vaguely overlapping but fundamentally different vocabularies. There is nothing wrong with that, our brains and o

Botanics and cooking are different domains with vaguely overlapping but fundamentally different vocabularies. There is nothing wrong with that, our brains and our social constructs are equipped to deal with that. In culinary context, tomatoes are not fruit. Rationale? Just one example: they are usually not used as dessert topping, whereas fruit is.