Find out in this article what kind of plants are tomatoes. And also read how to write tomato or tomatoes correctly.
Many are sure that tomatoes belong to vegetables. Judging by an ordinary person, really in colloquial speech, tomatoes are often called vegetables. Indeed, from the fruits of the plant you can prepare many delicious dishes, and not sweet, as prepared from fruits, berries.
In botany, plants are classified a little differently, probably many know that the watermelon, despite their size, is called the berry. Maybe tomatoes, despite the taste, can also be considered berries. Next, we will study this problem in details.
Is tomatoes fruits, vegetables or berries?
If you have already read a lot about this culture, you probably noticed that tomatoes are sometimes called tomatoes. What are the differences between these plants or is it the same fruit?
Tomatoes are beautiful bushes with green leaves, they can be annual, perennial. The fruits of tomatoes themselves are called tomatoes. It is interesting that tomatoes differ from each other in color (there are yellow, pink, red, black, green, coral), size, shape. Everything is clear with this.
We will find out where to tie the tomatoes from the point of view of botany. Fruits grow on trees, you can’t say this about tomatoes, they grow on the bushes, the fruits develop from flowers. It will not work logically to fruits to attribute to fruits.
Maybe tomatoes are berries?
What are the berries:
- with fleshy pulp (melons, grapefruits, oranges, tangerines)
- with a bone inside (cherries, plums, apricots)
- with dry inside (nuts, beans).
From the above list tomatoes suitable for berries with fleshy pulp. It follows that tomatoes are a family of berry. But again, melons, apples, and grapefruit few people call berries, they are ranked for fruits.
You can simply explain this phenomenon. According to botanical terms, these fruits are called - berries, and in cooking and with ordinary communication - fruits.
It is very interesting that fruits are eaten for dessert, and tomatoes are not suitable for this-they are better combined with sweet and salted dishes.
Fruits in the English sense are fruits that grow from the plant. By the way, the word fruit is borrowed, it fell into the Russian dictionary back in the eighteenth century. By tomatoes consider the English version to fruits. They do not look at the taste of fruits, but draw conclusions on the basis of a cultural growth method. So despite the prejudices, scientists ranked tomatoes to fruits.
Although these fruits:
- they grow on open ground next to other vegetables.
- tomatoes are eaten raw, like all vegetables and they are perfectly combined with meat and other dishes.
- they are not used as a dessert.
Therefore, the opinions of official sources and folk ones vary.
There are still few who know how to use the word true tomato or tomatoes. Sometimes both words are found in the literature. But one of them is not entirely correct. According to the grammatical rules - masculine nouns used in the genitive case are written with the end of -ov- (if the word ends with a solid consonant letter). That is why it is necessary to write tomatoes And nothing else.
Now let's summarize:
- According to the statements of scientists tomato is a berry. It is suitable for the description of these cultures. After all, there is a thin peel from above, inside - juicy pulp. There are also many seeds inside, from which you can grow a plant.
- According to technological processing, culture can be considered vegetables. Still - they plant tomatoes on the beds, fertilize, water, irrigate in the same way as other vegetable plants.
- In European countries, everything is different. Tomato is a fruit. Fruits also appear on the bushes after pollination of the flowers. It grows according to the same scheme, let's say that the watermelon, pear, etc.
Around this fetus there are many controversy about the type of culture. If we consider different positions, then each has its own weighty base.
Video: Tomato is a berry?
