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Tomatoes on trial : the fruit v. vegetable showdown by Metcalf, Lindsay H. 

Publisher Edition(Calkins Creek, 2025)


Publication Date: 08/12/2025

BTSB #: 639886 Available

Dewey: 635/NAges: 7-10   
Lexile: 730 F&P: T

Subjects: Fruit Vegetables Tomatoes - History Trials - United States - History


Summary: In the late 1800s, American produce king John Nix just wanted to sell tomatoes. But when import taxes on popular vegetables impacted his profits, he knew he had to remedy the situation. Nix set out to prove that tomatoes, which have seeds and grow on vines, were clearly fruits. That was the claim Nix argued all the way to the US Supreme Court. With Nix on Team Fruit, and the US government on Team Vegetable, both sides slung definition after definition in an epic, legal food fight.


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