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It is a fruit. The whole vegetable push was initially for taxes. (https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/a20705757/are-tomatoes-legally-a-vegetable/
by eftychis 8y ago
It is a fruit.
The whole vegetable push was initially for taxes.
(https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/a20705757/are-tomatoes-legally-a-vegetable/ https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/a20705757/ar...)
(https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-tomato-is-vegetable-2013-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-tomato-is-vege...)
Also, the average Joe around the world is really really bad in plant related food classification. Given that a lot of cookbooks are written by non-culinary experts, I would take such culinary information with a grain of salt as to proper naming and classification. Culinary experts do refer to strawberries, tomatoes etc accordingly.
- jrhurst 8y agoWhat is the scientific definition of a vegetable?
- eftychis 8y agoCulinary: Edible part of a plan that is not, or does not contain seeds (i.e. not a fruit). Biology/Botanology: does not exist. Only the definition of fruit is of interest. Thus something that a cook would call a vegetable are classified into finer categories (e.g. leaves, roots etc).