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Question by  selvamuthu (28)

Is a potato a vegetable?

What exactly is the difference in a fruit and a vegetable?

 
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Answer by  Sinefey (457)

They are actually a tuber, they grow at the Root of the plant. Technically a fruit is the ripe ovary of a flower, so many "vegetables" are actually fruits. Grocers separate fruits and veggies by how sweet they are, hence tomato is lumped with vegetables although it is technically a fruit.

 
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Answer by  PZ (1206)

Yes it is. Vegetables are typically the edible roots, stems or leaves of a plant. A fruit develops from the flower of a plant and it contains the seeds that allow the plant to reproduce. Tomatoes are scientifically classified as fruits, even though most people call them vegetables.

 
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Answer by  OmasatoJigoku (128)

Well in my experience it is a part of a fruit-the roots to be more accurate. Fruits as opposed to vegetables have a flowering body, vegetables however, tend not to.

 
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