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The fruits are used as a fresh dessert fruit; it is sweet and often served chilled. The fruit also exists in three colors, dark purple, greenish brown and yellow. The purple fruit has a denser skin and texture while the greenish brown fruit has a thin skin and a more liquid pulp; the yellow variety is less common. [citation needed]
Solanum mammosum, commonly known as nipplefruit, [1] fox head, [2] cow's udder, or apple of Sodom, is an inedible Pan-American tropical fruit. [3] The plant is grown for ornamental purposes, in part because of the distal end of the fruit's resemblance to a human breast, while the proximal end looks like a cow's udder.
Solanum dulcamara is a species of vine in the genus Solanum (which also includes the potato and the tomato) of the family Solanaceae.Common names include bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, [3] climbing nightshade, [4] felonwort, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, [5] [6] [7] trailing bittersweet ...
Osajin and pomiferin are isoflavones present in the wood and fruit in an approximately 1:2 ratio by weight, and in turn comprise 4–6% of the weight of dry fruit and wood samples. [37] Primary components of fresh fruit include pectin (46%), resin (17%), fat (5%), and sugar (before hydrolysis, 5%). The moisture content of fresh fruits is about ...
The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind when ripe. [5] [6] In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary.
Fruits mature between February and March. The ripe fruit is a round or slightly elongated berry, up to 20 mm (0.79 in) wide and 25 mm (0.98 in) long. It has a thin purple-black skin and a wet, firm, whitish pulp about 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) thick, surrounding a loose single (rarely double) seed.
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The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but otherwise contains a toxin. [19] The fruit can be used to make jam or syrup, but the bitter nature of the fruit requires sugar to sweeten the preserves. [20] The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruits—including the pits—in a mortar, from which they made sun-baked cakes. [21]