Sweet and acid fruits — water, fibre, vitamin C, potassium and the pigment families (anthocyanins, carotenoids, flavanones) that give fruit its colour.
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Malus domestica
A pome fruit grown in temperate regions worldwide, with thousands of cultivars differing in acid, sugar and polyphenol content.…
Persea americana
A large single-seeded berry with dense, oily flesh, unusual among fruits for being mostly fat rather than carbohydrate. It ripens…
Musa acuminata
The fruit of a large tropical herb, harvested green and ripened after picking. Ripening converts most of its starch into sugars,…
Rubus fruticosus
Dark aggregate fruit of bramble canes, distinguished from raspberries by keeping the central core when picked. Sold fresh in…
Vaccinium corymbosum
Small blue-purple berries of the Vaccinium genus, sold fresh, frozen and dried. Cultivated highbush varieties are larger and…
Citrus x paradisi
A large, bitter-sweet citrus fruit, a hybrid of pomelo and sweet orange. Pink and red varieties owe their colour to lycopene,…
Actinidia deliciosa
A fuzzy-skinned berry from a woody vine, with green or golden flesh and small edible black seeds. It contains actinidin, a…
Citrus limon
A highly acidic citrus fruit used mainly for its juice and zest rather than eaten whole. Citric acid makes up a large share of…
Mangifera indica
A tropical stone fruit in the cashew family, with hundreds of cultivars differing sharply in fibre, sweetness and aroma. Eaten…
Citrus x sinensis
The sweet orange, a hybrid citrus grown commercially on every inhabited continent. Most of the world crop is pressed for juice…
Carica papaya
A soft tropical fruit with orange or red flesh and black seeds, eaten ripe as fruit and green as a vegetable. Its latex contains…
Prunus persica
A summer stone fruit of the Rosaceae family, with fuzzy skin and a single hard pit. Nectarines are the same species differing by…
Ananas comosus
A tropical bromeliad whose edible fruit is formed from many fused berries around a fibrous core. Notable for bromelain, a group…
Punica granatum
A thick-skinned fruit filled with hundreds of juice-filled arils, each containing a seed. Commercial juice is usually pressed…
Rubus idaeus
A hollow aggregate fruit made up of many small drupelets, harvested from thorny Rubus canes. Fragile enough that most of the crop…
Vitis vinifera
The fruit of the common grapevine, eaten fresh, dried as raisins or fermented into wine. Red and black varieties carry…
Fragaria x ananassa
The aggregate fruit of a low-growing Rosaceae plant, with the seeds carried on the outside. Sold fresh year-round and frozen,…
Prunus cerasus
The sour cherry species, distinct from sweet cherries and grown largely for juice, concentrate and processing. Montmorency is the…
Citrullus lanatus
A large cucurbit fruit that is over nine-tenths water by weight, with red flesh coloured by lycopene. The rind and the flesh both…