September Harvest Photo by Giselle de Roche lunchdinnerandpunch.blogspot.com Tomatoes!
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Tomatoes!
• Botanically, a tomato is a FRUIT: the part we eat is the ovary, a seed sack with seeds inside, and that defines a fruit. BUT, it has less sugar than other fruits, so we don’t usually eat it like we eat other fruits. SO…
• Legally, the tomato is a
VEGETABLE: in 1893, the US
Supreme Court declared tomatoes
a vegetable because we eat them in salads
and with dinner, like other
vegetables. Why did the Supreme
Court care? There were import taxes on vegetables, but
not on fruits.
Tomatoes:Fruit? Or vegetable?
Tomato information source: www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=16646