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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Why Tomato is a Fruit?

Is a tomato a fruit? According to the dictionary it is!

to·mato: soft juicy red or yellow fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.


What exactly is a fruit?

fruit: fleshy, seed-bearing part of a plant used as food; quantity of these.


Why isn't the tomato a vegetable?

ve·get·able: part of various types of plants eaten as food.


The fruit-vegetables are as healthy as fruit. Some cookbooks make a distinction between fruit, fruit vegetables and vegetables. If you look at it that way; a tomato is a fruit-vegetable. Same as the fruits below: egg-fruit, green pepper, hot pepper, avocado, red pepper, cucumber, tomato and zuchini. These fruits contain the same nutritious elements as the common fruits and contribute as much to your diet as the fruits we call fruit vegetables.

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