North South University

Spring 2021

Department of English and Modern Languages

Course Code: ENG 105

Section: 29

Final Exam (Assignment) on:

Incorporating Source

Submitted To
Faculty Name: Raihana Tasnim (RT1)

Submitted By
Name: Naushin Fariha Jalal
ID: 1821146630

Date of submission: 23th May, 202

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The contrast between fruit and vegetables is known to everyone, but still

there is a debate on whether tomatoes are fruit or vegetable. Rupp, R. &

Fey. T. state in National Geographic that “The word fruit comes from the

Latin fructus or frui, meaning to enjoy and vegetabilis, which means

growing (as in plants)” (Rupp, R., 2015, pp 81-82). Vegetables are more

stolid and commonsensical. Fruits are tempting and scrumptious.

According to botanists, fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized

ovary of a flower. On the other hand, vegetables are any edible part of a plant

that doesn’t happen to be a fruit, as in leaves, stems, tubers, bulbs, and

flowers. On this basis, it can be said that tomato is a fruit. Though scientists

define fruits as the parts of a plant that bear seeds, so according to scientists,

tomatoes are clearly fruits [ CITATION Han15 \l 1033 ]. According to culinary

definition, fruits are the edible parts of a plant with a sweet flavor where

vegetables are defined as the edible parts of a plant with a savory flavor

[ CITATION Han15 \l 1033 ]. since there is the dibble part of the tomato plant and

it contains both savory sweet taste. There are 5 basic tastes we have, such as:

sweet, sour, bitter salty and savory. savory is a pleasant “meaty” taste with a

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lasting coating on the tongue[ CITATION Han15 \l 1033 ]. The taste of tomato is

defined as a vegetable by cookers. In an 1893 case, the U.S. Supreme

Court ruled that, for purposes of taxation, tomatoes are vegetables. The

Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually used as

vegetables since they are normally served with dinner and not as dessert.

The ruling, though, only applied to tax law and did not attempt to

reclassify tomatoes scientifically. Finally, in 2001, the European Union

declared carrots, sweet potatoes, and the now thoroughly confused

tomatoes all to be fruits (Rupp, R., 2015, pp 81-82).

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Reference List:

Rupp, R. & Fey. T. (2015, February 9). The great tomato debate. National

Geographic 252 (6), 78-79. The selection is from pp 81-82 

Source: Hannah, B. (n.d.). Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Wonderpolis,

Retrieved August 1, 2015 from http://wonderpolis.org/wonder/are-

tomatoes-fruits-or-vegetables

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