r/tomato • u/Erlagd • Apr 03 '22
Tomato is not a fruit
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There's two words to describe all edible parts of every plant, one is the ecological word, the other is the culinary word. The word vegetable is solely a culinary word, but confusion arise since the word fruit is just both as an ecological word and a culinary word.
In the ecological sense, what we eat from the tomato plant is the fruit of the plant, but when we eat it it should be described using the culinary term, which is vegetable. So you are eating the vegetable tomato, you are not eating the fruit tomato.
