A-Z list of fruits
Here is an alphabetical list of fruits and some related facts about each one.
Apple - a global favourite fruit and a good source of vitamin C
Apricot - soft, sweet and juicy orange coloured fruit packed with beta-carotene.
Avocado - Fatty soft flesh and a large stone in a thin outer casing. These trees produce hundreds of fruits which taste buttery and rich.
Breadfruit- a single Malayan tree
produces up to 200 or more grapefruit sized fruits each season. Breadfruit
flesh can be roasted, baked or fried and the taste is like bread (hence the
name).
Banana - yellow curved tropical fruit beloved the world over. In terms of global sales this tops the list of fruits.
Blackberry - The fruit of the bramble bush which is a very common european wild bush, blackberries are also cultivated and blackberry jam is a british favourite. Picking blackberries is enjoyable, but the bush has sharp spines.
Blackcurrant - A european native currant also popular for jams.
Blueberry - A north American fruit high in antioxidants. The small bushes grow in acidic soils, producing hundreds of small blue fruits in early summer.
Cherimoya- or custard apple. A delicious south american fruit with a white flesh which does indeed taste of apples and custard. The seeds and skin are toxic.
Cherry - Related to both plums and apricots, the cherry tree produces small red fruits with a distinctive taste. Sweet and fragrant, cheeries are a midsummer treat.
Clementine - A sweet orange citrus fruit from the mandarin family. Clementines are much easier to peel than oranges.
Coconut - Should this even be in a list of fruits? The fruit of the coconut palm is harvested throughout the tropical world for food, oil and Coir (the brown fibrous husk of the coconut).
Cranberry - American bog berry, high in vitamin C. An astringent taste makes it a great breakfast fruit.
Custard Apple - see Cherimoya
Durian - A thorn-covered outer layer reveals a strong smelling fruit that is most definitely an aquired taste.
Fig - The fruit we know of as the fig is actually the flower of the fig tree. Sweet and delicious
Grapefruit - A breakfast favourite, The large sharp but succulent grapefruit has a yellow skin and is about three times the size of an average orange.
Grape - Clusters of green, yellow or red fruits grow on vines in many parts of the world. Eaten fresh or turned into wine, grapes are a very popular fruit.
Guava - Round or oval fruits between 4 and 12 cm long. The taste is slightly perfumed and sweet and Guavas are packed with vitamins A and C.
Jackfruit - Related to Guava but much bigger fruits that can grow to 80 lbs in weight. the taste is unique and many westerners find they cannot enjoy them, but in Asia jackfruits are hugely popular.
Kiwi - Green to brown skinned fruit with a hairy surface. Inside is a sharp but sweet flesh that goes equally well in a traditional sweet fruit salad as it does in a tomato salad.
Lemon - The king of citrus fruits and essential in meddeterranian cookery. Southern Italy is particularly famous for cooking with lemons.
Lime - Green relative of the lemon
Loganberry - A cross between raspberries and blackberries and like both parents is high vitamin C.
Mandarin - Relative of the satsuma
Nectarine - A hairless form of peach that grows in slightly more nothern lattitudes than its more tender cousin.
Orange - Popular citrus with many varieties.
Peach - The fine experience of picking and eating a fully ripe peach from a tree and eating it there and then has little competition for unalloyed pleasure. A thin downy skin parts to reveal rich succulent flesh that is sweet and delicious.
Pear - A nothern european native, the pear is a wonderful fruit although not as popular as apples these days, largely due to shorter shelf life.
Pinapple - Very popular in the 17th Century when first imported into europe. Sir christopher Wren wanted to replace the ancient Gargoyles on the roof of St Georges Chappel in Windsor with a row of stone pineapples, but thankfully, wiser heads prevailed.
Watermelon - A large melon with sweet and extreemely watery flesh. Very refreshing and sold on beaches to sunbathers throughout europe.
We hope this alphabetical list of fruit is of use to you.
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