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> The tomato paste on a pizza was recently ruled a vegetable too, depending on its volume.

This has been going on for just about 40 years now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

That is outrageous. Of course it's not a vegetable, tomato is a fruit.

Pizza == Vegetable

This has been a running joke / outrage in our house.

To be fair, in the specific case of tomatoes, the more it's cooked/reduced, the more bioavailable many of its nutrients are. Tomato paste is just tomatoes. Usually these kinds of pizzas have tons of sugar in the sauce, though.