• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    161·
    1 month ago

    “Vegetable” isn’t a real scientific term. Nothing is stopping a fruit from also being a vegetable

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

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

      • Carrot@lemmy.today
        4·
        1 month 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.