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The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
Clymenia fruits are a small hesperidium, a citrus fruit. Sweet and lemony in flavor, the tangerine-sized fruits are highly segmented, with yellow pulp, and a leathery rind. They contain a large number of polyembryonic seeds. Clymenia platypoda B.C.Stone Clymenia platypoda: Clymenia polyandra (Tanaka) Swingle Clymenia polyandra
Fruit Blueberry juice [14] [16] [17] Blueberry: Fruit Calamansi juice [18] Calamansi: Fruit Cantaloupe juice Cantaloupe: Fruit Carrot juice [19] [20] [6] Carrot: Vegetable Cashew apple juice [21] [22] Cashew: Fruit Celery juice [23] Celery: Vegetable Ceylon gooseberry juice [24] Ceylon gooseberry: Fruit Chanh muối: Lime: Fruit Pickled limeade ...
Most staple plant foods are derived either from cereals such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rice, or starchy tubers or root vegetables such as potatoes, yams, taro, and cassava. [16] Other staple foods include pulses (dried legumes), sago (derived from the pith of the sago palm tree), and fruits such as breadfruit and plantains. [17]
Physalis fruit are rich in cryptoxanthin. The fruit can be used like the tomato. Once extracted from its husk, it can be eaten raw [16] and used in salads. Some varieties are added to desserts, used as flavoring, made into fruit preserves, or dried and used like raisins. They contain pectin and can be used in pie filling.
The fruit is an acorn-shaped ovoid, three-angled capsule 1–2 centimeters (0.39–0.79 in) long, partly enclosed at the base by the sepals. The mature seed is a hard oval that is dark brown and contains an oil (liquid wax) content of approximately 54%.
The use of the fruit as an exotic flavouring, one of the best known bush tucker (bush food), has led to the attempted domestication of the species. Desert quandong is an evergreen tree, [1] its fruit can be stewed to make pie filling for quandong pies or made into a fruit juice drink. The seed (kernel) inside the tough shell can be extracted to ...
The leaves are small, 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, and oval with a rounded apex. The flowers are small, with five pale yellow-green petals; flowering in April. The fruit is 2–4 cm long and 1.5–3 cm (5 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) broad, with a thick, bitter peel surrounding a sweet-smelling but unpleasantly flavoured layer of ...