Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

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A tomato is a fruit - fruits have interior seeds - vegetables don't.

More specifically, the tomato is a "berry". At any rate, the term "vegetable" is a culinary term, so a tomato could be a fruit, served as a vegetable.

The distinction is blurred by the labeling of "ketchup" as a vegetable when it is more properly a nutritional condiment. The US Supreme Court, in 1883, defined the tomato as a vegetable in Nix v. Hedden, but acknowledged that it was botanically a fruit.

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"Knowledge is to know that a tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is to know not to put one in a fruit salad."

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