Why do you have tomatoes listed in the vegetables section instead of the fruit section?

This is the reason we put tomatoes (as well as other “fruits” such as avocados and bell peppers) under the vegetables category. It is also why that we chose to include foods such as quinoa and buckwheat, which are seeds and not botanically “grains,” in the whole grains section and why we also placed peanuts, which are botanically a legume, in the nuts category. For those foods that are categorized according to culinary rather than botanical classification, I make a note of this in that food’s chapter or website write-up.

For more information on this topic, please see:

• Tomatoes