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[–] 15 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

"Vegetable" isn't a real scientific term. Nothing is stopping a fruit from also being a vegetable

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is a definition of a fruit though, and it is understood that vegetables are not fruit. As I understand it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Sure, but tomatoes are a fruit botanically (more precisely, a berry). "Vegetable" is a culinary term, and has no real strict definition beyond "a plant grown to be eaten", so a tomato falls squarely into being a berry, a fruit, and a vegetable.

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