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[Missihippi]

from a culinary standpoint, tomato is a vegetable. From a technical standpoint, because of it's seed, tomato is a fruit. Which is what we are taught since grade school (in America at least).

I've found that most Koreans that i've talked to, including my current students, think that tomatos are vegetables only. No way they are fruits.

Seems strange; this kind of discrepency. Haha, just a random deskwarming thought.

[dory]

that's weird. most koreans i know treat them very much like fruits, even eating them like fruits and grouping them with fruits in platters (particularly cherry tomatoes).

[Chet Wautlands]

Did you know that tomatoes taste sweet? They are sweeter than apples. It's only because, when we are young, we are taught that they have a different taste than most fruits.

Try it out for yourself. Blend an apple in a cup of water and then blend a tomato in a cup of water. Close your eyes and have a friend hand you one. You will be unable to tell them apart.

Pretty amazing!

[harshlands101]

[le-paul]

so is a banana truley a fruit? It has no seeds...

[Skippy]

Actually I found more Korean think it is a fruit because if if they thought it was a vegetable it sure as heck would not be put on cakes.

[Radius]

[littlelisa]

[le-paul]

actually yeah, I was joking - a bit.
But the seeds of a commercial banana are useless because they are sterile so they are not really seeds (ie cannot be used to make new trees).
They reproduce with roots.


from yahoo answers -
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Bananas can have seeds since they are flowering plants. However, the banana sold in the market do not develop seeds because they are parthenocarpic, meaning they can proceed with further development without the benefit of a sexual reproduction or fertilization. Wild bananas which are not cultivated can have seeds, and have seeds. The black thing we see in the banana fruits are remnants of the degenerated (or unused) styles or tubes through which sperm nuclei would have passed, had there been any pollination and subsequent fertilization.


and banana trees can walk too (thats all my banana facts used now).

could be another topic of discussion with the kids...

[blackjack]

[blackjack]

http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2006/11/wild-bananas.html

[le-paul]

[murmanjake]

[Missihippi]

[saram_]

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in
your fruit salad."