Is a chili fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

They are both... The chilli and the tomato is a fruit and a vegetable!!

Answer 2

A chili is a fruit.

The scientific definition of a fruit is any structure that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower and contains seeds of a plant.

It is legally a vegetable in the US, but botanically, it is a fruit.
Chili peppers are botanically fruits, but are generally considered in culinary contexts to be vegetables.

The Grocery industry keep on profiling this fruit as a vegetable. This leads to much confusion regarding the terms Vegetable and Fruit.

A vegetable is however a part of a plant which does not contain seeds.

Chili Peppers are fruits since thy most certainly have got seeds in them.

Answer 3

Chili pepper (from Nahuatl chilli, chilli pepper, chilli, chillie, chili, and chile) is the fruit[1] of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

Answer 4

It is a fruit. Plants that produce seeds contained within the body and known as fruits. Those seeds that develope externaly are from vegetables. Naturally, there are some exeptions to the rule

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

vegetable

Answer 8

Fruit