Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

Technically, they are fruits. Fruits are the ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit! So if what you are eating has one or more seeds, it is a fruit (and possibly a vegetable as well!): Eggplants, peapods, and cucumbers all fit the bill. And what about nuts? According to the experts, they are one-seeded fruits as well.