Chillies = fruits or vege or flowers?

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

i read an article online the other day - the debate whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable? this is what oxford dictionaries got to say :-

The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a 'fruit', though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry is an example.

As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits, such as tomatoes or bean pods, may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The term 'vegetable' is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term 'fruit' may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example.


So, the answer to the question is that a tomato is technically the fruit of the tomato plant, but it's used as a vegetable in cooking.

so what makes a fruit, a fruit or a vegetable, a vegetable? simple question - does it have seeds? if it does, then technically (or botanically) its a fruit..so that makes  tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, beans, walnuts all FRUITS.

what about Chillies? if you use the above argument, then they should also be Fruits lah kan??

but not in the case of  Red Chillies yang terselit in the bouquet of  Heliconia and Red Ginger Flowers that i got last weekend; bought from the quaint Wissendine village. technically, in my case, Chillies are Flowers..

so kaedahnya (bak kata my biras, Corlyn), kalau kehabisan cili, boleh lah petik dalam vase..