Tomatoes: Vegetables or Fruits?

[Nancy LC]

This is interesting! I always figured we called them vegetables because in culinary applications they are used that way, with savory applications.

Botanically, they're called fruits because that is how they function. They have seeds.

However, tomatoes have a little more interesting history than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

This is the 120th anniversary of the tomato being a vegetable because of the above ruling.

:lol:

[WereBear]

Botanically, they are fruits! But for that matter, so are avocados, which are similarly seen as savory.

[teaser]

Sort of off-topic, but apparently superhero mutants and mutates are legally non-human. The way for a real-world Mutant Registration Act is cleared.


Toy Biz v. United States
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Toy Biz v. United States [1] was a 2003 decision in the United States Court of International Trade that determined that for purposes of tariffs, Toy Biz's action figures were toys, not dolls, because they represented "nonhuman creatures." This decision effectively reduced the tariff rate by a factor of two.

[edit]Background

U.S. law distinguishes between two types of action figures for determining tariffs: dolls, which are defined to include human figures, and toys, which include "nonhuman creatures". Because duties on dolls were higher than on toys, Marvel Comics subsidiary Toy Biz argued before the U.S. Court of International Trade, that their action figures (including the X-Men and Fantastic Four) represented "nonhuman creatures" and were subject to the lower tariff rates for toys instead of the higher ones for dolls. On January 3, 2003, after examining more than 60 action figures, Judge Judith Barzilay ruled in their favor, granting Toy Biz reimbursement for import taxes on previous toys.

[Katfishy]

I have to ask because I don't follow a specific plan... do plans like Atkins consider tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Is it a controversial issue? :P

~teaser
Thanks for sharing! That cracked me up. I think as fellow humans we should all be concerned about legal discrimination against mutants. :(

[Elizellen]

Atkins includes tomatoes, as well as peppers, aubergines (eggplants) courgettes (zucchini) [which are also really fruits], as being vegetables and they are allowed on the induction veg lists.

[RobLL]

Dr B counts tomatoes, yellow peppers (nor others), and onions as higher carb, on basis that they raise BGs. I am able to consume all three but not in high quantities.