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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 24, 2010 -> 11:06 AM)
Turns out pumpkins are fruits.

Various supreme court decisions take precedence for me.

If you are speaking in a botanical, scientific context, then pumpkin, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, tomato and squash are FRUITS because they all have seeds. If you are speaking in culinary terms, they can all be properly called VEGETABLES.

 

Case solved, right? Not quite. The United States Supreme Court entered into this fascinating debate and gave a legal verdict on whether a tomato should be classified as a vegetable or a fruit. They decided unanimously, in Nix versus Hedden, 1883, that a tomato is a vegetable, even though it is a botanical fruit.

 

So, there you have the difference between fruit and vegetable and an amazing nutrition fact. A tomato is a fruit AND a vegetable. A pumpkin is a fruit AND a vegetable. The age-old question of "Is it a fruit or vegetable?" has been resolved. Next, we will tackle "Which came first - the chicken or the egg?" (You do know it was the chicken first, right?)

 

 

Read more at Suite101: Fruit or Vegetable?: Pumpkin, fruit or vegetable? Tomato, fruit or vegetable? Difference between fruit and vegetable revealed http://www.suite101.com/content/fruit-or-v...6#ixzz13IYqRfM2

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