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Temperate Fruit
Temperate fruits should have an annual cold season to grow properly. They are raised mostly during Temperate Zones, the regions between the tropics and the polar areas. Mainly temperate fruits come from Europe and also from North America. Some are produced in Asia and Australia. The most frequent temperate fruits are apples, peaches, pears, cherries, and also plums.

Tomato
In plant families, the tomato are classified as a fruit (berry), but when eaten normally resembles a vegetable that it is most often considered being. Raw or cooked tomatoes have a sweet, acidy flavor and a very juicy flesh. Available in different sizes, shapes and colors, tomatoes could be large and round like beefsteak tomatoes, oval shaped as are Roma and plum tomatoes, pear shaped like pear tomatoes, are very small and bite size like cherry and grape tomatoes, and fluted with pleats, such as the Zapotec pleated types.

Tropical Fruit
The Akee (Blighia sapid) is actual member of the Sapindaceae (soapberry family), native belongs to the tropical West Africa. It is also related to the Leeches and even Longan, and is an evergreen tree that always grows about 12 meters tall, with a short trunk and the dense crown. The leaves are leathery, compound, 15-35 cm long, with 6-12 called elliptical obviate-oblong leaflets, each leaflet 8-10 cm long and 5-9 cm broad.




Apple stuck in Adam's throat
Cabbage-a water vegetable
Tomato is a fruit!
Banana-a cure for heartburn
Peanut is the main component of nitroglycerine
Pumpkins and avocados are fruits
Dark green vegetables are more Vitamin C rich
Banana is not a fruit in reality.
Bananas are easily digestible
Cockroach repellent fruit
An apple tree can produce 400 apples a year
Bilberries improve night vision
Cherry seeds believed to have satanic power
Watermelon used to carry water
Worlds favorite fruit
Strawberries have seeds outside them
Kiwi is rich in Vitamin C
Oranges help fight anti-aging
Eating fruits avoids miscarriage
Eating fruits reduce the risk of diseases
Lemon is a good source of Vitamin C-Prevents Scurvy
7000 apples
Grapes do not ripen once plucked
Banana slip accidents in Britain
Quick ripening
 Lemons kill bacteria
Pear-wood is hard
Banana-the 1st fruit on earth

Special fruits for this week

 

Pluots fruit

Few varieties of pluots are called dinosaur eggs (Read more)

Mangosteen

dark purple fruit-tastes like strawberry (Read more)

African cucumber

taste like combination of banana, cucumber and lemon (Read more)

Papaya

Helps digest Proteins (Read more)


 
 

Are exotic fruits much tastier than other fruits?
  No, only some taste better
  All look and taste nice
  Very bad at taste
  Never tried an Exotic fruit

 
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