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Vegetables

Tomato

Tomato, common and scientific or Latin name: Lycopersicon esculentum = Solanum lycopersicum Solanaceae family (Solanaceae) and its origin is the American Southwest. The tomato was introduced to Europe by the Spanish colonizers in the Americas. The stems are slightly angular, semi-ligneous, medium thickness (close to 4 cm at the base) and with simple and glandular trichomes. Leaves medium-sized to large (10-50 cm), alternate, stalked, bipinatisectas (with leaflets further divided) and numerous simple and glandular trichomes.

Cucumber

Cucumber, it is the common or vulgar name and whose scientific name is Cucumis sativus of the family: Cucurbitáceas (Cucurbitaceae) and the origin places in the India. The cucumber is a species of radical extensive system, with a root pivotante, of rapid growth that reaches 1 to 1,2 m, and numerous lateral roots that center in the first 60 cm of the soil. The stems possess simple earrings. The leaves are big (± 15 cm), simple, alternate and with 5 lobes, marcadamente angular what, close to the presence of thorny stems, differs to the cucumber of the melon. Externally, the fruits can be from yellow color to dark green (the most usual thing), of smooth surface or with warts crowned for tricomas or thorns that tend to disappear during the growth.

Zucchini

The Zucchini, which scientific name is Cucurbita pepo and belongs to the family: Cucurbitáceas.y the origin: Central America. The culture of the zucchini is the classic one in Níjar's region, his climate and his conditions of soil do of this fruit a product of great quality, with uniformly cylindrical pieces, of firm texture and good flavor, of green intense color, slightly flecked, of a luminous and fresh natural sheen.

Zucchini of Almeria

Vegetable of great consistency, it supports of natural form his properties from the moment of the compilation providing that the temperatures are not extreme. We find them in his varieties green and whitly.

Aubergine

Aubergine is his common name and has as scientific or Latin name: Solanum melongena of the family Solanaceae and his origin is in the India. It measures from 0,7 to 1,0 m of height, with several erect, hair - thorny ramifications. Entire, oval, big leaves (15 to 25 cm of length) and very hair in the face abaxial. The flowers appear solitary or in small clusters, the flowers are of medium size, with chalice of 5 or more thorny sepals, with corolla of 5 or more petals of purplish color, and with yarns that enclose the ovary that after self-fertilization will give origin to the fruit or berry that constitutes the organ of consumption.

Black aubergine

Lengthened in most cases, we have besides this product in his round form. The "black" variety is most demanded, though also we possess aubergine "striped" inside our variety of products.

Pepper

Pepper is his common name and the scientific or Latin name: Capsicum annuum var. Annuum of the family of the Solanáceas. And his origin is South America. The stem presents ramification dicotómica and on the branches they arrange leaves, entire of average size, of oval-oblong form, glabras and of green intense color. The flowers are perfect and appear solitary in the asillas of the ramifications; they are of small size (1 cm), with toothed chalice, five petals of white color and anthers yellowish - blue or purples. The fruit of the species is a berry of very variable characteristics, with weight that fluctuate between a few grams up to half a kilo, the form changes between round, shaped like a heart, sharpened, cylindrical and square, with external color of white to black, though they predominate over the yellow colors,

California Pepper

In his different varieties: green, red, yellow and orange, they are gathered in the perfect moment of ripeness in order that they support the nutritional properties for those who are so needed and his characteristics of pigmentation that provide an unsurpassable presentation to them.

Potatoes

Potatoes, common or vulgar name and the scientific name or Latin Solanum tuberosum subsp. Tuberosum of the family: Solanáceas (Solanaceae). And his sound of origin is of the Andean mountain chain. Under conditions of culture, it eats it is an annual, herbaceous species, which for being his seed highly heterocigota is reproduced agámicamente from tubers (underground modified stems). The tubers are the eatable organs of the potato. They are formed by fabric parenquimático, where the reservations of starch are accumulated. In the asillas of the tuber there place the yolks of growth called "eyes", arranged in spiral on the surface of the tuber.

Uses of the potatoes:

The uses of it her eats they are multiple, so much as fresh as industrialized product, transforming it into one of the most versatile and widespread food. His consumption, after a process of boiling, can be like a dad roasted, cooked, fried, salad, mash, soup, sufflé, plate him, milcao, etc., giving faith of the variety of uses. Apart from other forms of industrialization for human food that liquors give origin to an enormous variety and quantity of products processed as the frozen ones, dehydrated, tinned, etc., it eats it also glucose is in use for the industrial obtaining of starch, dextrinas, and other products.

Green beans

Green beans, common or vulgar name and scientific or Latin name: Phaseolus vulgaris var. Vulgaris of the family of the Leguminous ones. Varieties of bean exist arbustiva (dwarf) and climbing (of rod, of enrame, climbing stems). Green beans are considered to be those that are in use for being consumed in green taking advantage not only of the seeds (not very studded) but also the ovary. In the beans of enrame of approximately 2 m, there has to place a tutor of 2-2,5 m of height to guide his growth.

Carrot

Carrot is the common or vulgar name and the scientific or Latin name is cheeky Daucus and belongs to the family of the Umbelíferas (Umbelliferae). The origin: center of Asia, Afghanistan. The carrot is a hard vegetable, bianual and of cold climate, which grows for the thick root that produces on the first station of growth. He needs two years to complete his vegetative cycle, but since they are cultivated to take advantage only of the root, his compilation is realized within a few months of the sowing. During the first year there is formed a small rose of few leaves and the root.

Onion

Onion is his common name and his scientific name or latinoes Allium vine-stock of the family of the Liliáceas and his origin is Western Asia. Nowadays it is one of the vegetables most cultivated in the whole world. The plant of the onion possesses a bulb formed by numerous thick and beefy caps to the interior, which realize the functions of reservation of nourishing substances necessary for the supply of the outbreaks and are covered with dry, thin and transparent membranes, which are a base of the leaves. The bulbs have very diverse aspects: globular, depressed, disc-shaped, form of spinning top, piriforme, etc.

Garlic

Garlic is his common name and his scientific or Latin name is Allium sativum of the family of the Liliáceas and his origin is the center of Asia, wherefrom it went on to Egypt, Greece, Rome and to the rest of Europe. The spanish took it to the Americas. There are a lot of varieties of garlic, being the most common the white garlic. It exists pink or purple, giant and miniature. The garlic is one of the fundamental ingredients of the Mediterranean kitchen.

Garlic of the Predroñeras

The garlic is something that goes unnoticed in many homes without falling in the account that on having treated itself about a seasoning and that the expense pos day is not significant, is worth looking for the best, which more properties have, more flavor and better aroma. Purple garlic of the Pedroñeras; it is of medium - small, round, very white size externally and dwelt in the internal skins close to the teeth. It is of the first quality and enjoys a very good reputation even out of our borders.

Purple Garlic Chinese

It is purple externally unlike the authentic one of the pedroñeras. Can come from small stone or be sowed in Spain especially in the south (Cordova, Badajoz ….). His quality has nothing to do with those of the Pedroñeras and is a shame that great people confuse them and prefer varieties of white national garlics. Though there are different calibres they are in the habit of being fatter and stocky, and having the beards sliced with a species of cleaver.

Autochthonous White Garlic

The white national garlic is better when it comes from the zone center of Castilla León, between the province of Valladolid and Segovia. His adverse cold climatology in January of even 15 under zero and the heats that can overcome 40 degrees from the Sun of the half day, beginning July (in two epochs the garlics are inside the land) give it the only hardness in this variety of garlics. In addition, it is a question of the lands fertility as for the variety of the zone, (his compilation is in the habit of beginning at the beginning of July, up to two months afterwards that the first ones of andalucia) in addition and the rich one waters down of the banks of the rivers, they do an ideal zone for the production of this variety of garlics.

Beans

Bean is his common name and his scientific or Latin name is Corrupts faba of the family of the Leguminous ones. The haba is an eatable vegetable, his seeds and his pods can be cooked of very different forms, from boiled or as mash up to since summer soup. Even his top leaves can be used like spinach. The beans are easy to cultivate and very prolific. They eat both the beans and the pods.

Peas

Green peas or Chícharos is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Pisum sativum of the family of the Leguminous ones. The pea has been cultivated in Europe for centuries and one counts today between the most popular vegetables in the whole world, though unfortunately they are in the habit of consuming in tin, dry or frozen. Yes they are consumed in fresh air, proceeding from the garden and cooked in a suitable way, constitute a specially succulent vegetable. It is a question of one of the most ancient eatable plants and probably of first cultivated. He appears in a pod of green color (clear or dark, according to variety), more or less compressed, in many cases cylindrical and sharp-pointed in his two ends. The pods are in the habit of having from 8 to 10 cm of length, are smooth and brilliant.

White Cabbage

Common cabbage is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name is Brassica oleracea var. Viridis of the family of the Crucíferas. The cabbage is a green, fresh vegetable and of station, which is rich in vitamins and minerals. The cabbages grow of a principal stem, where leaves grow towards out with stems that they cannot eat. The green, smooth and firm leaves must be gathered from the low part of the stem, in order that the stem continues producing green leaves until autumns ends.

Cabbage of Brussels

Cabbages of Brussels it is his common name and his scientific or Latin name: Brassica oleracea var. Gemmifera. Family: Crucíferas. It is characterized because along the stem there are formed yolks that they evolve, giving small cabbages (approximately 32 along the stem). The Cabbage of Brussels or Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera is a variety of the family of the Crucíferas characterized by his size reduced with relation to other members of this species, such as cabbages, cabbages or cauliflowers.

Lombard Cabbage

Lombard cabbage, it is his common or vulgar name and has as scientific or Latin name: Brassica oleracea var. Capitata of the family: Crucíferas. Very similar to the cabbage, but less closed, and of flushed color that throws to dwelt. The Lombard cabbage is an eatable cabbage of flavor lightly sweetly and very valued, that is characterized by the dark attraction of his purple color, magenta or purple of his leaves. It is a variety selected of the common cabbage cultivated in the whole Europe. It is cultivated, prepares and consumes in the same way as other cabbages. Flavor lightly sweet.

Cauliflower

Cauliflower is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Brassica oleracea var. Botrytis of the family of the Crucíferas. Origin: Asia. It is one of the most valued vegetables and the whole challenge for the horticulturist. The flower forms a pellet, which is the eatable part. In these plants the inflorescence is hypertrophied, forming a mass of petioles and buttons you will foliate heavy. The pellet or corimbo is a set of beefy flowers, many of them incompletely developed, that constitute the eatable part of the cauliflower. There are varieties of white, yellow and red color. His leaves are like those of the cabbage.

Turnip of Table

Turnip of table is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Brassica napus var. Rapifera of the familiade the Crucíferas. The Turnip is a species of biological biennial cycle, but one is not in the habit of coming to the second one because it is started before it finishes the first one. There is supposed drift of plants that grow wild in NOT of Europe and Scandinavia, though also one has proposed as possible center of origin Central Asia. From these zones it has spread all over the world. For 4.000 years it has been a basic food for certain ethnic groups in Europe, principally in epochs previous to the introduction of it her eats.

Radishes

Radish is his common or vulgar name: scientific or Latin Name: Raphanus sativus of the family of the Crucíferas (Cruciferae) and his origin is the Far East. It is a vegetable of root of easy culture, which does not occupy very much space and grows with great rapidity. Very estimated by his color scarlet and his piquant flavor. The colors of the root change from the white to the black happening for pale red colors to brilliant scarlet.

Artichoke

Artichoke is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Cynara scolymus, belongs to the family: Composed and his origin is the North of Africa and Europa's South. The artichokes are everlasting plants, that is to say, that they remain in the place for several years. It is a vivacious plant, but that in horticultural production of irrigation is in the habit of lasting 2 ó 3 years. They have a rhizome with thick roots and yolks that appear throughout the year. Long leaves, pubescentes, big a meter of light green color above and cottony for below.

Chicory

Chicory is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Cichorium intybus var. Sativa belongs to the family: Composed (Asteraceae). Vegetable very similar to the ruff as for the flavor. Of broad leaves of purplish and white color more or less curled depending on the variety. It is cultivated specially in the north of France, Belgium, Germany and Spain. There is consumed the bud that, depending on the culture, can be more or less tight and firm, in this aspect it is similar to the cabbage.

Endive

Endive is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Cichorium endivia var. It sets on edge belongs to the family: Composed (Asteraceae) and his origin thinks himself that the endive is original of the Mediterranean zone. The endive is actually a variety of the chicory that is obtained by means of a forced or artificial culture. It plants with leaves that start of the neck of the root, with a coloration, variable according to variety and culture, from the dark green one to the light yellow one. The flowers of the chapters are liguladas, perfect, blue or celestial, and arrange in number from 18 to 42 on chapters sésiles, axilares, solitary or in fascicles from 2 to 5. The endive, a vegetable of agreeable presence, is, actually, the heart that is extracted from the plant.

Lettuce

Lettuce, it is his common or vulgar name and scientific name or latinoes Lactuca sativa of the family: Composed. His origin: the origin of the lettuce does not seem to be very clear, though any authors affirm that it comes from the India, the botanists do not put in agreement. The lettuce is an annual plant and autógama. In his wild condition they are small plants and of bitter flavor, but the selection of the man throughout the time to propitiated great variety of tasty lettuces.

Broccoli

Broccoli is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Brassica oleracea var. Italic, perteneve to the family of the Crucíferas. And so origin seems that it is located in the countries bathed by the oriental Mediterranean, in I make concrete in Middle East (Anatolia's Peninsula, The Lebanon, Syria, etc.). The broccoli contains big quantities of vitamin C and caroteno thread that they are important as antirust.

Sweet Potato

Sweet potato, Sweet-potato of Malaga is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Ipomoea sweet-potato = Convolvulus sweet-potatoes, belongs to the family of the Convolvuláceas (Convolvulaceae) and his origin: tropical American Zone. Vivacious plant, but that is cultivated like annual. The roots it is the most important part of the plant, since it constitutes the principal object of the culture.

Gourd

Gourd is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: maximum Cucurbita of the family of the Cucurbitáceas. The fruits are never, in general, spheroidal, smoothed, claviformes, curved or strangled and lack waxen excrescences; the surface of the fruit can be smooth or rugose, of external generally green or green greyish color and the flesh it is orange. Fruit of variable size, from calabacitas to more than 20 kg (" giant gourd ").

Mushroom

Mushroom, Champignon, Mushroom of Paris is his common name and his scientific or Latin name, Agaricus bisporus. The mushroom is a mushroom formed by a hat of semispherical or flat form and cylindrical, normally white foot. A hat has from 5 to 12 cm of diameter, initially hemispherically that then happens to flatly - convex.

Beet

Beet of table is his common or vulgar name and his scientific or Latin name: Thread vulgaris var. Conditiva, of the family: Quenopodiáceas (Chenopodiaceae) and his origin: Europa's south. The sugar beet is another variety: Thread vulgaris var. saccharifera. The beet of table can last two years in the area, but that is gathered to the scanty year of being planted to prevent it from coming into ear. There are different varieties of beet of table, as the semibreve, intermediate and the long billiard cue. The most common beet is the one that has red color. Another variety is white, another hoar-frost rime, etc.

Asparagus

Asparagus it is his common or vulgar name and au scientific or Latin name: Asparagus officinalis, of the family: Liliáceas and his origin: Asia Minor. It is a vivacious plant that grows every year from the rhizome.

Celery

Celery is the common name and the scientific or Latin name: sweet Apium graveolens var. Family: Umbelíferas. It is a very nourishing plant, and with properties diuréticas, carminative and filter systems of the blood. The varieties of celery it is necessary to differentiate them in two big groups: green varieties, which they need there does him the practice of whitening (in greenhouse) if white main ribs want to be obtained, and yellow varieties that they do not need from this practice.

Shallot

Shallot, Shallots is his common name and his scientific or Latin name: Allium ascalonicum of the family: Liliáceas and of origin: It comes from Asia Minor. Etymology: his vulgar Spanish name, shallot, and a previous scientific name, Allium ascalonicum, derive from Ascalon, former city of Palestine where he would have been cultivated intensely.

Chives

Chive is his common name and his scientific or Latin name: Allium schoenoprasum. They are a variety of onions without bulb available practically all the year round and that contribute to the salads a very tasty touch. The plant produces a permanent flowering, with stems from 20 to 30 cm of height, which sustain showy umbels of color purple that there produce numerous seeds looked like to those of onion, though smaller, and that can be used to establish the culture.

Spring Onions

Spring Onions. This one is his common name and his scientific or Latin name: Allium fistulosum, belongs to the family: Liliáceas. The chives do not form real bulbs, but an engrosamiento of the set of leaves in his base. The biggest difference with the onion is that the chive does not produce bulbs and develops 2 to 6 outbreaks or ramifications of similar size and that are harvested to the green condition and constitute the organ of consumption of the species.

Truffle

Black truffle. White truffle. Truffles, this one is his common name and his scientific or Latin name: Tuber spp., Tuber melanosporum, Tuber magnatum. The truffle is an underground mushroom. The truffle develops underground and his compilation is laborious. It develops in association with the roots of certain trees (oaks, oaks and hazels).

Fruits

Oranges

The Orange belongs to the family of the Rutaceae, of the kind Citrus and the species: Citrus sinensis (L.) Osb. It has a freightage: Reduced (6-10 m). Fruit: Hesperidio. It consists of: exocarpo (flavedo; he presents bladders that contain essential oils), mesocarpo (albedo; pompous and of white color) and endocarpo (flesh; he presents tricomas with juice. The orange is a round fruit, orange color, consumed for the most part in winter. The flesh of the interior is also orange and is formed by small bolsitas full of juice. The orange is used for consumption in fresh air and, for the industry, principally in juice. The orange, together with the banana and the apple, is one of the fruits most consumed in the world.

Mandarins

The mandarin is of the family of the Rutaceae and the subfamily: Aurantioidea. - kind: Citrus. Species: numerous species Exist: Citrus reticulata, C. unshiu, C, reshni (clementines, satsumas and common). The mandarin is a fruit similar to the o range but smaller and flattened for his base. His bark is smooth, a brilliant red orange color and is very easy to peel, even with the hands. The mandarin is consumed principally as fruit in fresh air, though also there are known the conserves of clusters of mandarins.

Grapefruit

The Grapefruit belongs to the family of the Rutáceas (Rutaceae) and his origin seems to have arisen from the (stable) crossing of pummelo and sweet orange tree in Barbados (West Indies) and of there it spread over the whole Carib, firstly, and over the rest of the world, later. I come to the Moslem Spain more or less simultaneously that the sweet orange tree. The grapefruit is a fruit in the shape of globe lightly flattened, of smooth or rugose bark, of pale yellow or reddish color. It is consumed principally as fresh fruit, and possesses numerous digestive, stomach and antiseptic qualities.

Lemon

The Lemon belongs to the family of the Rutáceas and to the species: Citrus lemon. The lemon is round and lightly lengthened, belongs to the family of the sour fruit-juices and therefore he shares many of the characteristics of other species of citrus fruits, since it is to have a thick skin. The flesh is a pale yellow color, juicy and of acid flavor divided in clusters. The color of the bark is yellow and specially brilliant when it is mature.

Strawberries

The strawberry is like there is called he commonly to the Strawberry, is a kind of creeping plants estoloniferas of the family Rosaceae. It groups approximately 400 taxones described, of which only approximately 20 are accepted. [1] they Are cultivated by his fruit (eterio) so called foodstuff of the same way, strawberry or rosary bed. The varieties cultivated commercial are in general hybrid, especially A Strawberry x ananassa, that it has replaced almost universally to her spice wild places, as the Eurasian Fragaria vesca, for the top size of his fruits.

Raspberries

The raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is the fruit of the raspberry-bush or sangüeso. This plant grows wild in Europa's diverse regions, though also it is cultivated, being his important enough culture. It is a fruit which is small, conical or rounded with a velvet skin of red or yellowish color. The flesh is very aromatic and his flavor is sweet and sour. It is possible to consume raw or use to elaborate jams, jellies and drinks. Also it is possible to be frozen. Actually this fruit is composed by numerous small and rounded drupes that there contains each of them a seed, gathering in crowds in a small conical receptacle.

Cranberries

The cranberry is a fruit that grows wild in fresh zones of the north hemisphere. It is a globular berry of black bluish color that measures some 6mm of diameter. It is consumed especially in jams, tarts or as accompaniment of diverse plates. It is a rich food in vitamins that in addition it contributes few calories to the organism.

Melon

The melon belongs to the family of the Cucurbitaceae and his scientific name: Cucumis melo. The Fruit possesses a form that can be a variable (spherical, elliptical, aovada, etc.); the bark of green, yellow, orange, white color, etc., it can be smooth, reticulada or fluted. The flesh can be white, yellow, creamy, orange, salmon-like or greenish. The placenta contains the seeds and can be dry, gelatinous or watery, depending on his consistency. It turns out important that it is small in order that it does not reduce flesh to the fruit and that the seeds are placed well in the same one in order that they do not move during the transport.

Watermelon

The Watermelon belongs to the family of the Cucurbitaceae. His scientific name is the Citrullus lanatus (Thunb). The watermelon is a big fruit and of more or less spherical form that is in the habit of being consumed raw as dessert. His flesh performs reddish or yellowish color and sweet flavor. It turns out to be a very refreshing food that contributes very few calories to the organism, also it contributes some vitamins and minerals.

Cherries

The cherry belongs to the family of the Rosaceae, which kind is the Prunus and the species Prunus avium. The fruit: drupe, globular of red color blackish or with figure of heart. The bone is globular, almost smooth. The principal species of cherry-tree cultivated in the world are the sweet cherry-tree (Prunus avium), the cherry tree (P. cerasus) and the cherry-tree "Duke", hybrid of the previous ones. Both species are natives of Europa's south-east and west of Asia. The sweet cherry-tree had his origin probably in the Black sea and in the sea Caspian Sea, spreading later towards Europe and Asia, taken by the birds and the human migrations. It was one of the fruit trees most estimated by the Greeks and with the Roman Empire it spread to very diverse regions. At present, the cherry-tree is spread by numerous regions.

Plums

The Plum belongs to the family of the Rosy ones of the kind Prunus and of the species Prunus domesticaL and his origin places in the Caúcaso, Anatolia and Persia. The fruit is a round drupe or oval covered by a whitish wax (pruina), of yellow, red or purplish color, with medium peduncle, peloso, with oblong, compressed bone, something rough and that on the one hand presents an alone rib. Inside the bone they find two seeds or more frequently the alone one, for abortion of other one. The seeds lose after one month the germinative faculty.

Apple

The apple belongs to the family of the Rosaceae. And his species is of the Pyrus malus L. the fruit is a globular handle, with short peduncle and numerous seeds of dun brilliant color. The apple is the ideal fruit to take at any hour and takes part positively in the attainment of the food balance. The skin can be of green color, yellow or reddish, and the meat goes from a tart flavor up to the sweet. It is one of the fruits most consumed in the world. The great quantity of existing varieties they do that they are within reach of the consumer all the year round.

Peach

The Peach belongs to the family Rosaceae of the kind: Prunus. The species is the Prunus pérsica. The fruit is a drupe of great size with a thin epidermis, a beefy mesocarpo and an endocarpo of bone that contains the seed. The peach is one of the most important fruits both in production and in value forming a part of the group of fruits of major production in the whole world: apple, citrus fruits and bananas.

Nectarine

The nectarine is a round fruit, with juicy meat, with bone looked like to the peach. It belongs to the family of the Rosy (Rosaceae). The species is the Prunus persica var. Nectarine and his origin goes back to China. His skin is not downy but smooth as that of the plum and it is possible to consume without peeling or peeled. The epoch of compilation of the nectarine is during May in the Hemisphere North, though it is possible to find on the markets during everything a year since it is cultivated in many countries of the world.

Pear

The Pear belongs to the family of the Rosy (Rosaceae) and is fitted in the species: Pyrus communis L. The fruit is in handle reduced in the base; this one can be rounded or attenuated and prolonged in the peduncle. Withering sepals in the apex umbilicado. With five celdillas, each one with 1-2 seeds of exterior smooth cover or something mucilaginous. The pear is a fruit very extended nowadays all over the world, that is consumed so much in fresh air as cooked, and that is available all the year round. There exist numerous cultivated varieties, which change both in form and in size and colors.

Apricot

The apricot belongs to the family of the Rosy ones and presents generally a spherical form though also it can be flattened, of approximately 3 cm of diameter. To the apricot also there is called he "a" 'apricot' and externally it looks like greatly the peach though much smaller and paler of color. The apricot also is known by the name of damask or I damascene and in others countries of the Carib and Mexico they call it awkwardly.

Persimmon

The Persimmon is of the family Ebenaceae and of the species Diospyros kaki. Next to D. Virginia (Persimmon American) and D. Lotus, which are cultivated as bosses. It is known that from the 8th century is cultivated in China and Japan where it has his origin. In the western countries it was introduced bearing in mind the conditions of culture of his zone of origin; this one took place in a recent way in two slopes: in USA at the beginning of the 19th century and in France, Spain and Italy about 1870. The fruit is a Berry with quadrangular very typical form. The chalice constitutes a fundamental part in the minced meat with fruit and herbs (if it is eliminated it does not become set) because it is a source of citoquininas, and Intervenes in the maintenance of the fruit. The flesh is very astringent until it is not mature, in this moment his flavor is sweet.

Fig

The fig is considered to be a false fruit, is a receptacle that contains hundreds of small fruits that vulgarly we are called pips. It is in use as fruit for consumption in fresh air, desiccated, as mash for confectioneries, in conserve or sweetened. The fig is a "fruit" obtained of the fig tree (Ficus carica). From the botanical point of view the fig is not a fruit but an infrutescencia (or a set of fruits). There exist more than 750 species of different figs between which there are foodstuffs and not foodstuffs. This fruit might come from western Asia, though later it was distributed by the whole Mediterranean. It is known that the being I humanize already it knew and gathering it before 9000 B.C.

Medlars

The Medlar is of the family Rosaceae and of the species Eryobotria japonica (Thunb.) Lindl. (Japanese medlar), next Germanic Mespilus (European medlar). His fruit is of the type handle with variable number of seeds (2-4) of great size that occupy approximately the half of the diameter of the fruit, and the chalice preserves surrounding a depression apical like navel. The medlar is a fruit rounded of orange color that is estimated by his aromatic, sweet meat and something acid. It is in the habit of consuming in crude oil, though they are elaborated diverse prepared as jams, pastry or juices. Scarcely it contributes nutrients to the organism, though it contains potassium in valuable quantities and some vitamins.

Grape

The grape is a fruit obtained of the grapevine. The grapes come in clusters and are small and sweet. They eat fresh airs or are in use for happening unripe grape, must, wine and vinegar. The grape is a fruta that grows in tight clusters. His flesh is white or a purple and of sweet flavor. It is consumed as fresh fruit or juice, though his principal usefulness is the obtaining wine. Also conserves are realized by her. It contains diverse minerals and vitamins, and there is thought that it has antirust and anticarcinogenic power. The grape is a beefy fruit of rounded form that grows in clusters composed by many fruits. The skin can be greenish, yellowish or purple, and the flesh is juicy and sweet, containing several seeds or pips.

Cherimoya

The Cherimoya belongs to the family of the Annonaceae and his kind is the Annona. The species that characterizes her is the Annona cherimola Mill, and his fruit is a Berry with numerous seeds of black color, ovoideas and brilliant. It is an infrutescencia of green color, that when capture matures a hotter color. It is a complex fruit formed by the union of the pistils with the receptacle, of the type of the sincarpos called. It is not opened in the maturity and has whitish flesh. If the ovum is not fertilized the corresponding carpel it tends not to develop, with what the fruit is deformed. It is consumed especially as fresh fruit. Also it is added to Macedonian and sherbets and it is possible to use to elaborate jams, batters or ice creams.

Kiwi

Kiwi is his common name and his scientific name is Actinidia chinensis of the family: Actinidiaceae. The fruit normally is a berry or a capsule loculicida. It is a big elipsoidal, dun skin with hairinesses in all his totality. Of green flesh color emerald that contains numerous very small seeds. The ripeness of the fruit is at the beginning of April. The flesh is about the central columena, the latter has a variable thickness and both parts are eatable as soon as the fruit has reached his maturity.

Avocado

The pollination of this species is effected by bees and other insects of similar size. This fruit is characterized by a high percentage of fat. It is very energetic and his use is dissuaded at the end of the eaten ones. Concretely, 100 g of this product reach between 128 and 233 kcal. It is a very rich fruit in minerals, principally potassium, iron and phosphorus. The avocado is a very low fruit in carbohydrates, does not come not to 2 grams for every 100, when for example an apple comes to 14 grams. Nevertheless it is called the " vegetable butter " for being very rich, as it was indicated previously, in fat. But this fat treats itself about a healthy, vegetable, unsaturated fat and without cholesterol. It is possible to consume both crude oil and stew, using more as a vegetable than as fruit

Mango

The mango is recognized at present as one of the 3 or 4 thinner tropical fruits. Low culture has been from the prehistoric times. The Holy Writ in Sanskrit, the legends and the Hindu folklore 2.000 years B.C. refer to him as of ancient origin, even since then. The tree of mango has been an object of great worship in India and his fruits constitute an article estimated as foodstuffs across the times. Seemingly it is original of the northwest of the India and Burma's north in the hillsides of the Himalayas and possibly also of Ceylon.

Fruit of the Passion

The maracuyá, patches, parchita, chinola or mburucuyá (Passiflora edulis) is a fruit pastusa of the kind Passiflora. The fruit of the passion is a berry oval or round, of between 4 and 10 cm of diameter, beefy and juicy, covered of a thick, w axen, delicate and inedible rind. The flesh contains numerous small seeds. The color presents big differences between varieties; the most frequent in the native lands is yellow, obtained of the variety P. edulis f. flavicarpa but, for his attractive visual Superior, the fruit is in the habit of being exported to the European and North American markets of P. edulis f. edulis, of red, orange intense color or purple.

Papaya

The Papaya is of the family of the Caricáceas which species is the Carica papaya. The papaya is a tropical fruit that is consumed by his flesh principally, that is in the habit of performing orange color and sweet and juicy flavor. Also they take advantage of his dry seeds. It is possible to take as a fresh, cooked fruit or in diverse prepared as ice creams, refreshments and jellies. It is a low food in calories and highly digestive.

Carambola Fruit

The Carambola Fruit (Averrhoa cannon) is a tropical fruit that is commercialized in Europe for a little time. It is called also the major fruit, due to his form starred on having cut her of transverse form. His skin is thin, eatable, of the light yellow one that transforms in yellow gilding when the fruit is mature. It possesses a translucent, creaking, juicy and acid flesh. The biggest varieties are the most sweet. It is in the habit of measuring between 7 and 12 cm. Those of major size are of golden color, more sweets and with a slight note of acidity. The smallest varieties are very tart and have pale, green or yellow tonalities.

Litchi

The Litchi is of the family of the Sapindáceas and of the species: Litchi chinensis. His origin: the litchi is native of the low lands of the provinces of Kwangtung and Fukien in China of the south. The litchi is an oriental rounded fruit, of some 2,5-4cm of diameter. It is of red color with the rugose skin. The flesh is white, sweet and juicy. One is in the habit of consuming crude oil, though in China it combines with the meat and the fish. Also it is used in frozen or well-trodden. It is a food that contributes vitamins and minerals to the organism.

Pineapple

The Pineapple belongs to the family: Bromeliaceae and his scientific name: it is Pineapples sativus (Lindl) Schulty his origin the tropical zones of Brazil. The flowers give fruit without need of fertilization and of the ovary hipogino a few fruits develop in the shape of berry, which together with the axis of the inflorescence and the bracts, they give place to a beefy infrutescencia (sincarpio) In the surface of the infrutescencia there are seen only the covers square and smoothed of the individual fruits.

Banana

The banana is a yellow fruit, of elongated form, that we find on the market in groups from three to twenty, of form similar to a triangular, oblong cucumber and normally of yellow color. His flavor is more or less sweet according to the variety. There is confusion as for the name, in all the countries of the world exempting Spain, it is known by the name of banana if he eats up cooked and banana if it refers to the mature fruit that is consumed in fresh air. In Spain it is called a banana to the fruit that is consumed in fresh air and the banana practically does not exist. Though nowadays, any type has different uses and the bananas belong to a subgroup of you will cultivate.

Coconut

The coconut (Coconuts nucifera L.) it is a round and elongated fruit of white, fibrous meat and oily cover for a hard rind, of brown color and shaggy. The coconut has the wrapped one fibrous, a white meat inside that receives the name of copra and, when the fruit is still tender, a milky liquid that is in the habit of being used as basic food of some zones.

Date

The date (Phoenix dactylifera) is the fruit of the date-palm. It is an oblong berry of 4-8 cm of length of yellow golden color or red parduzco in the maturity. His meat is soft, aromatic and of sweet flavor. In his interior it possesses a bone lengthened with a longitudinal rut. The dates can be consumed fresh or dry and constitute a basic food for the inhabitants of the north of Africa and the Near East, who are the principal producers. These fruits possess a flavor similar to the honey and grow in clusters in the glass of the tree, to approximately 25 m of height.

Black Currant

The black currant is a berry of translucent flesh with red or green tones and of sweet and sour flavor. The fruit is small, of blue black and spherical color with an intense flavor when it is completely mature. This berry is covered with down and his flesh contains many small seeds. These fruits are not free but they grow in clusters. The black currant bush (Ribes nigrum, belonging to the botanical family of the Saxigfragáceas) is the shrub wherefrom the currant comes.

Red Currant

The red currants can consume fresh airs, though generally they use in the production of products as compotes, jellies, jams, gelatinas, you cremate, batters, tarts, ice creams, juices, broths, liquors and refreshing drinks. The currants are a healthy food that contributes few calories and that is rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals. They are diuréticas and attack the flu and other catarrhal diseases.

Gooseberry

The Gooseberry or also named unripe grape or grape thorn (Ribes grossularia or Ribes grape sets on edge) is a berry that according to the species can be white, yellow, red or green, with a thorny, downy or soft skin. The different varieties differ between flavor, color, size, form of the fruit and way of consumption. It predominates over the yellowish fruit with downy skin, though there exist also varieties of reddish, green dark and green pale whitish skin.

Blackberry

The blackberry is a generally wild plant of which they take advantage of his fruits, a few small very aromatic and slightly acid berries of black color. They are consumed raw, though also they use in the production of compotes, Macedonian, tarts, etc. They are rich in vitamins and minerals. In addition they contribute fiber and contain few calories. The blackberry is the fruit of the bramble, a shrub that grows generally wild in many zones of the planet. The fruit is a berry of black brilliant color formed by the union of numerous small fruits that contain each one a seed. It is an aromatic fruit and something acid.