Tomatoes are a Fruit

There is no question - tomatoes are a fruit.  Period.  It's easy to tell a fruit from a vegetable; there are two different ways:

1.  The seeds are INSIDE a fruit or OUTSIDE a vegetable
2.  The flower has a fruit attached, while vegetable flowers are above or separate from the edible portion. 

So yes, tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, green peppers, avocado and cantaloup - all fruits.  Just because we put something into a garden or tossed salad, does not mean it is a vegetable.

And speaking of summer squash, zucchini is not only a fruit, it's a summer squash.  I know the signs at the supermarket say "summer squash" on the yellow and "zucchini" on the green, but they are both summer squash.  The yellow is usually either a crook neck or a straight neck.  Winter squash, which are also fruit, are the ones that become ready in the fall usually after a frost - hubbard, butternut, acorn, etc.

This brings me to corn.  Corn on the cob is one of my summertime favorites and I've been known to buy four dozen at a time.  I cook them, cut the kernels off the cob with a knife, place in an inexpensive plastic bag, then into a vacuum-seal bag.  I lay the bags out in my freezer, flatten and let freeze; I then vacuum seal.  I've also been known to eat only corn on the cob for dinner.  Is there anything better than fresh corn-on-the-cob with organic butter in the summer?  There just might be - freshly frozen corn off the cob in January!  It's always great to take a bag out of the freezer and enjoy on a cold wintery day!  I have not bought insecticide-laden corn from the supermarket in several years.  It is a lot of extra work to freeze my own corn, but well worth it!

Corn - is it a fruit, vegetable or grain?  I personally think the jury is still out on that subject.  The Whole Grains Council defines corn as a grain if it is dried and a vegetable if it is cooked.  I think I may be wrong, but I have to disagree.  Since we eat the kernels, which are the 'seeds,' and the seeds are INSIDE the husk, I would have to take vegetable completely out of the equation - seed, fruit or grain.  But honestly, I vote for grain.