Tomatoes are vegetables or fruit? This debate is now over. Courts in America have set a tomato belonging to the vegetable group.
Viewed from the point of view of botany or the science of plants, tomatoes include fruits because they contain seeds. Not vegetables that refer to other parts of the plant such as stems, leaves, roots and flower buds.
So is the culinary where vegetables are usually served in savory dishes. While the fruit is processed so dessert, snack or drink. Seen from this principle, tomatoes are better suited to vegetables because they are usually added in savory dishes.
Tomato debates also appear in the US Supreme Court trial. It questioned whether the tomatoes belong to fruits or vegetables. This question comes after the fruit importer argued about the status of toma
When tomatoes are classified as fruits, tomatoes are subject to 10% import taxes. They protested over this. In the end the court decided that tomatoes belong to vegetables with the application of taxes following the rules.
This decision also saw the use of tomatoes so far in the culinary field. Tomatoes are used more like vegetables in salads, soups and sandwiches. Not like the fruit in the cake, ice cream and dessert.
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