Tomatoes and cucumbers can be eaten raw and cooked. Are they vegetables or fruits?

Generally speaking, we think that fruits are eaten raw and vegetables need to be fried before they can be eaten, so what can be eaten raw and cooked are fruits or vegetables? We generally think that fruits are eaten raw, while vegetables need to be cooked in the kitchen before they can be eaten. In other words, from this point of view, cucumbers and tomatoes belong to both fruits and vegetables. However, we should pay attention to that tomatoes and cucumbers, whether eaten raw or cooked, are different from the fruits we eat, and tomatoes are generally planted as vegetable gardens, and most of them are mainly used as vegetables. in this sense, these two kinds are different from what we call apples, bananas and other fruits, so tomatoes and cucumbers are classified as vegetables in the legal sense. Scientific development of agriculture also agrees with this view.

In fact, there are many similar to cucumbers and tomatoes, such as soybeans, carrots, soybeans are equivalent to vegetables when eating edamame beans, and when they mature, they become food. For example, carrots can also be regarded as a category of fruit, but after all, not many people eat carrots raw, so few people call them fruits.

Usually we call vegetables and fruits as fruits and vegetables, such as fruit and vegetable stores, which implies that the boundaries between fruits and vegetables are not very clear, so the two are mixed together. Speaking of which, there is a short story about tomatoes. Here is a brief introduction to you.

In 1895, a British businessman imported and shipped a batch of tomatoes to the United States. according to local law, imported fruits were duty-free and vegetables were subject to a 10% tariff. There was a dispute when the tomatoes entered the customs. The merchants thought that the tomatoes were fruits and the customs believed that the tomatoes were vegetables. The two sides were deadlocked and went to court for this. In the end, the court held that tomatoes are generally trailing fruits like cucumbers and soybeans, and it is customary to send tomatoes to the kitchen for processing, so they are legally classified as vegetables.

With regard to the question of tomatoes and cucumbers, vegetables or fruits, science does not think that we need to take this problem too seriously. As a kind of food, we can eat raw fruit if we want to make it, and we can eat it if we want to make vegetables.

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