The tomato - fruit or vegetable?

[dogmatique]

A berry has multiple seeds within one single fruit, eg the banana and the cucumber. (It was a question on QI on Friday, before anyone pretends to be a clever clogs... )

 

[perplexis]

A berry has multiple seeds within one single fruit, eg the banana and the cucumber.

Double
Aren't bananas a herb?

And by this def. tomatoes are also berries?
As are watermelons, courgettes, apples, pears, oranges, grapes...
I'm sure this can't be right?

 

[bloodyhell]

It is a fruit. It forms from the ovaries of a flower and has seeds.

Whether it is used as a savoury or desert is of no consequence to its classification.

Indeed!

 

[dogmatique]

Apparently so. When have you known Stephen Fry to be wrong? Or his research monkeys?

 

[subversplat]

Technically everything mentioned (bar the cheese, and perhaps Steven Fry) is a vegetable anyway, everything else is just subcatogorisation.

 

[Reg in slippers]

nearly interesting..

..the tomato is part of the nightshade family ; all fruits

 

[Idaho]

Heheheh - had fun looking round that site. I'm going to become a fruitarian raw foodist. As a precursor to becoming a breatharian.

 

[subversplat]

I'm intrigued at the idea being a non-vegetarian raw foodist, just for gore value.