The Answer: Both (depending on your definition)
"fruit" and "vegetable" are defined differently depending on whether you're a gardener or a chef. Dead center of the overlapping region sits the tomato.
The #SCIENCE: Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems. By those standards, seedy outgrowths such as apples, squash and, yes, tomatoes are all fruits, while roots such as beets, potatoes and turnips, leaves such as spinach, kale and lettuce, and stems such as celery and broccoli are all vegetables
.[attach]667303[/attach]作者: NewLynnHse 时间: 2014-1-10 09:08:12
