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    23 hours ago

    Not unique because EU also classifies tomatoes as vegetables.

    Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
    The classification of fruit and vegetables can be based
    on various approaches — botanical, agronomical,
    culinary — thus resulting in different definitions. For
    example, the tomato is botanically a fruit, but it is
    commonly considered a vegetable from both the
    agronomical and the culinary points of view.
    The facts and figures presented in this briefing follow
    Eurostat’s definitions based on the farm management
    and agronomical practices, according to which the
    term ‘fresh vegetable’ refers to annual (or, rarely,
    biennial) horticultural crops, and the term ‘fruit’ refers
    to perennial crops.
    Following this approach, tomatoes are included in the
    main statistical aggregate of vegetables, as well as
    melons, water melons and strawberries, which are
    commonly considered and consumed as fruit.

    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2019/635563/EPRS_BRI(2019)635563_EN.pdf