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What kind of plant is a tomato?

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A tomato is botanically a fruit but was defined by the US Congress in the 1800's as a vegetable so that it could be taxed. Their reasoning was that they are used as vegetables for culinary purposes. It is a red fruit with seeds and similar to strawberries and other red fruits with seeds.

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tomato= red round fruit growes on plant above ground, seeds inside all edibal sorry abount spelling errors

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14y ago

fruit. has seeds and grows on branches

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13y ago

People consider tomatoes as vegetables, but due to it's seeds, tomato is actually a fruit. This is a very unknown fact.

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A beef tomato is a type of large tomato, known as a beefsteak tomato in the United States, some of which have a mass of around one pound.

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Some people think that tomatoes are vegetables as we use them to make salads. But, one study found that tomato is acrually a fruit..

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It's a fruit that tastes like a vegetable

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Technically it is a herb.

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a tomato is a berry

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Fruit

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