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幼小的彼得斯頓小姐及先生
1999
年的蕃茄節
 

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彼得斯頓蕃茄節
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蕃茄是水果,還是蔬菜

40,000多人前來參加彼得斯頓的蕃茄節,一起慶祝彼得斯頓最愛的水果之一。是的,水果!雖然蕃茄不甜,但它是一種水果,而不是蔬菜。因為水果在科學上的定義為,任何含有植物種子的多肉物質。而蕃茄內有種子,所以它是水果;同理可證,黃瓜、青椒及南瓜都是水果。雖然我們常將以它們的食用方式,而將它們視為蔬菜。我們常認為水果是甜的,這是一個r便利的方式,幫助我們區分各式各樣的食用植物。

不論蕃茄是蔬菜或是水果,它都是賓州彼得斯頓居民的最愛。您最愛吃的水果是那一樣?


Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

More than 40,000 people come to the Pittston Tomato Festival to celebrate one of Pittston's favorite fruits. That's right, fruits! Although the tomato is not sweet, it is a fruit rather than a vegetable. That's because science calls a fruit any fleshy material covering the seeds of a plant. The tomato has seeds inside, so it is a fruit -- so are cucumbers, green peppers, and squash. We often refer to them as vegetables, though, because of the way they taste. We tend to think of fruits as sweet; it's a handy way to distinguish between the different kinds of plants that we eat.

The people of Pittston, Pennsylvania, love the tomato, whether it is a fruit or a vegetable. What's your favorite fruit?

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