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Grapefruit
Read moreThe Welsh botanist priest Griffiths Hughes was the first to tell the world about grapefruit in 1750. He called the fruit “forbidden fruit”. Later, the grapefruit was called “little sheddock” because of its resemblance to the pomelo, which was then called sheddock (after the English captain Sheddock, who brought it to the island of Barbados in the 17th century), and in 1814 in Jamaica, traders renamed the fruit to grapefruit. It is an occasional hybrid of a pomelo and an orange [5]. After 1880, industrial production of this crop began to grow rapidly in the United States, then in the Caribbean, Brazil, Israel and South Africa). In the 20th century, grapefruit took a leading position in the world fruit market.
Grapes
Read moreProduct Description
The grape is a fruit that grows in tight clusters. It has a white or purple flesh of sweet taste, eaten raw or in juice, although it is chiefly used for making wine. They are also used to make preserves. It contains various minerals and vitamins, and it is considered to be antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic.
GROWERS Varieties
Turkey Red Globe
Chili Merlot
Brazil Sultana
Argentine
Azerbaijan
Melon
Read moreA melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit. The word “melon” can refer to either the plant or specifically to the fruit. Botanically, a melon is a kind of berry, specifically a “pepo”. The word melon derives from Latin melopepo,[1][2] which is the latinization of the Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopepōn), meaning “melon”,[3] itself a compound of μῆλον (mēlon), “apple, treefruit (of any kind)”[4] and πέπων (pepōn), amongst others “a kind of gourd or melon”.[5] Many different cultivars have been produced, particularly of cantaloupes.
Nectarine
Read moreThe variety P. persica var. nucipersica (or var. nectarina), commonly called nectarine, has a smooth skin. It is on occasion referred to as a “shaved peach” or “fuzzless peach”, due to its lack of fuzz or short hairs. Though fuzzy peaches and nectarines are regarded commercially as different fruits, with nectarines often erroneously believed to be a crossbreed between peaches and plums, or a “peach with a plum skin”, nectarines belong to the same species as peaches. Several genetic studies have concluded nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, whereas a fuzzy peach skin is dominant.[5] Nectarines have arisen many times from peach trees, often as bud sports.
Onion
Read moreMost savoury dishes include one of the onion family – brown, white and red onions, garlic, chives, shallots, spring onions and leeks. All of these vary enormously in shape, size, colour, texture and intensity of flavour. New Zealand’s top onion growing area is Pukekohe, south of Auckland.
Papaya
Read moreThe papaya is a small, sparsely branched tree, usually with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk. The lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. The leaves are large, 50–70 cm (20–28 in) in diameter, deeply palmately lobed, with seven lobes. All parts of the plant contain latex in articulated laticifers.[6] Papayas are dioecious. The flowers are five-parted and highly dimorphic; the male flowers have the stamens fused to the petals. The female flowers have a superior ovary and five contorted petals loosely connected at the base.[7]:235 Male and female flowers are borne in the leaf axils, and the males are multiflowered dichasia, and the female flowers are in few-flowered dichasia.[citation needed] The pollen grains are elongated and approximately 35 microns in length.[citation needed] The flowers are sweet-scented, open at night, and wind- or insect-pollinated.
Peach
Read moreThe peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.[3] It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.
The specific name persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia (modern-day Iran), from where it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus, which includes the cherry, apricot, almond, and plum, in the rose family. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell. Due to their close relatedness, the kernel of a peach stone tastes remarkably similar to almond, and peach stones are often used to make a cheap version of marzipan, known as persipan
