Fruits CA

Honeydew melon

A melon with a smooth rind that changes from pale green color to a creamy yellow color as a ripens. It has a mild sweet flavor.

Date

A plump, juicy and meaty drupe that grows on a palm tree. It contains more potassium than bananas. It can be eaten fresh dried or stuffed with savory or sweet fillings after the pit has been removed

Concord grapes

A seeded grapes with deep black color

Thompson grape

A seedless grape that is pale to like green in color. It's season is from June to November

Red flame grapes

A seedless grape that ranges from light purple, red colored to dark purple color I typically sweeter in crisper and texture than Thompson grapes

Olives

A small green or black drupethat is grown for both the fruit and its oil

Mangoes

It has an oval or kidney shaped drupe with orange to orange yellow flesh. The flesh of this fruit clings to a large flat stone in the center of the fruit. There are over 1000 varieties of this type of fruit around the world

an edible, ripened ovary of flowering plant that usually contains one or more seeds

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Grape

An oval fruit that has a smooth skin and grows on a woody vine in large clusters

Pectin

It is a chemical present in all fruits and acts as a thickening agent when it is cooked in the presence of sugar and an acid ex-apples

list the major categories of fruit

1. berries 2. grapes 3. pomes 4. drupes 5. melons 6. citrus 7. tropical fruits 8. exotic 9. fruit vegetables

What is the poaching temperature when poaching fruit

185 degrees

Pear

A bell shaped fruit with a thin peel and sweet flesh there 1000 different kinds of this fruit

Berry

A category of fruit that is small and has many tiny edible seeds

Plantains

A close relative of a banana but is larger and has dark brown skin when ripening

Aggregate fruit

A cluster of tiny fruits such as BlackBerries raspberries logan berries and boysenberries

Blueberry

A dark blue berry that grows on this shrub

Boysenberry

A deep maroon hybrid made by crossbreeding a raspberry , BlackBerry and a Loganbery

Comice pear

A fairly large fruit with the rotund body in a very short well-defined neck that they are often green yellow in color with a red flash flash covering part of the surface. They are very sweet and juicy making them a favorite for soft ripening cheese not good for cooking

pomes

A fleshy fruit that contains a "core of seeds and has an edible thin skin and grows on trees or bushes and are an excellent source of any toxins in dietary fiber

Apple

A hard round pomes that can range in flavor from sweet to tart and in color from pale yellow to dark red. They can be used for cooking or just eating raw .It's peak season between late August and early November

Quinces

A hard yellow pome that grows in warm climates they are not eating raw because they are bitter in taste

Bartlett pear

A large golden fruit with a bell shape it has a creamy to see flesh in a musky flavor and aroma. it can be baked in pies and tarts they can be used as sauces and surveys or eaten raw

Raspberry

A slightly tart red fruit that grows in clusters if they'll be soft texture makes them one of the most fragile. There is sweet yet type flavor makes an idea for glazes for savory dishes such as roast meat or poultry

Kiwi fruit

A small barrel shaped tropical fruit approximately 3 inches long and weighing between 2 to 4 ounces. It has brown, fuzzy skin. It's bright green flash has a white cord that is surrounded by hundreds of tiny black seeds. It contains twice as much vitamin C as an orange

Figs

A small pair shaped fruit. They are over 150 varieties including black green white and purple. They have a sweet rich flavor and are highly perishable. They make great cheese platters and can be stuffed

Cranberry

A small red round berry that has a type flavor. The skin of the berry is white when young turns deep red when right

Cherries

A small smoothed skin drupe that grows in a cluster on the tree. This skins typically range and color from bright red too deep red that is nearly black (also golden). They can be sweet or sour

Passionfruit

A small, oval shape exotic fruit that typically weighs 2 to 3 ounces and has a firm, inedible skin they can be either yellow or purple. The orange yellow or pink green pulp of the passion fruit is sweet and juicy with the gelatin like texture and a citrus flavor.

Gooseberry

A smooth skin berry that can be green golden red purple or white and has many tiny seeds on the inside it is used to make a classic English dessert called fool

BlackBerries

A sweet dark purple to black aggregate fruit that grows on a bramble bush

Peach

A sweet orange to yellow fruit with a downy skin

Nectarine

A sweet, slightly tart orange to yellow drupe with a firm yellow flesh and a large oval pit.this fruit is a result of a peach mutation

Casaba melon

A teardrop shape melon with a thick bright yellow rigid Rind and white flesh. It does not have an aroma

Musk melon

A type of American cantaloupe

Exotic fruit

A type of fruit that comes from hot, humid locations but is not as readily available as tropical fruit

Banana

A yellow elongated tropical fruit that grows in hanging branches on the plant

Kiwi fruit

A.k.a. Chinese gooseberry

Avocado

A.k.a. alligator pear it has a pear shaped fruit with a rough green skin in a large pit surrounded by yellow green fatty flesh

Asian pear

A.k.a. apple pear

Seckel pear

A.k.a. honey pear or sugar pear because of its Sweet fine green flesh and complex sweetness it is a late summer and early fall fruit

Kiwanos

A.k.a. horned melon, it is an exotic fruit with jagged peaks rising from an orange and red ringed rind that is native to Africa. It's flash is a brilliant lime green color with cucumber light seeds and a tart, refreshing Keewee cucumber flavor. It can be cut in half and eating right out of the Rhine.

Drupe

A.k.a. stone fruit it is a type of food that contains Lenhard seed or pit it grows on shrubs and trees and usually harvested before they are ripe

Ugli fruit

A.k.a. unique fruit. It is a large, teardrop shape, seedless citrus fruit is similar in size to a large grapefruit but sweeter. The peel is lumpy with large pores a range from green to orange when fully ripe. It is a highbred by crossbreeding a grapefruit in a tangerine

What food is known as vegetable meat

And immature jackfruit because it's similar texture of a chicken making it a vegetarian substitute.

Seville Orange

Another term for a bitter orange

List 3 pomes

Apples Pears Quinces

Fruit vegetables

Are botanical fruits that are usually sold, prepared and served like vegetables. There are typically more tired than sweet. This includes tomatoes cucumbers eggplant okra edible being in peapods, sweet and hot peppers, summer and winter squash and pumpkins.

Name three sweet cherries

Bing cherries Gean cherries rainier cherries- higher premium cherry with yellow and red skin and a sweet yellow flash

What is the color of a tree ripened olive

Brown or black

What is the color of an unripe olive

Green

Rambutans

Is the fragrant and sweet exotic food covered on the outside with soft hair like spikes. It is native to Malaysia. It's flesh is similar to lychees

Durians

Is the size of a large cantaloupe, have a thick thorny skin that is gold to green in color, it can way up to 10 pounds. Is the exotic food that contains several pods of sweet yellow flash and has a custard like texture. This Malaysian fruit is known for having a strong unpleasant odor but a very appealing taste.

Mangosteens

Is the size of an orange with a hard, thick, dark purple rind that is an inedible. Inside is a juicy cream color flesh. The Sweet tart flesh is segmented similar to a tangerine. It spoils very quickly. This is a prize fruit from Asia

Bosc pear

It has a gourd like shape and brown colored to a bronze colored . the flesh is Rich syrupy and sweet and it holds its shape when cooked. It is a winter fruit. It needs cold storage to ripen fully

Persimmons

It is a bright orange tropical fruit that grows on trees in a similar in shape to a tomato. They grow on trees that are native to China. When they arrived they are very sweet.

Citrus fruit

It is a category of fruit with a brightly colored, thick rind and pulpy, segmented flesh that grows on trees and warm climates. The peel in the pith are both removed during preparation because of their bitter taste.

Tangelo

It is a citrus that is a hybrid of a tangerine and grapefruit

Meyer lemon

It is a cross between a lemon and orange. It's juice is sweeter and less acidic than a regular lemon

Apricot

It is a drupe that has a pale orange yellow skin with a fine Downey texture and a sweet aromatic flesh. they can be used to make savory sauce for meat or poultry

Canary melon's

It is a fairly large canary yellow melon with the smooth rind that is slightly waxy

Tangerine

It is a hybrid of a Mandarin and a better variety of Orange. It is a small citrus fruit with a slightly red orange peel that can be easily removed without a knife.

Crenshaw melon

It is a large pear-shaped melon with yellow green slightly ripped a ride in an orange or salmon colored flesh. It has a sweet and spicy flavor and can wait as much is 10 pounds.

Papayas

It is a pair or cylinder shaped tropical fruit weighing 1 to 2 pounds with flash the ranges in color from orange to red yellow. The central cavity is filled with numerous edible seeds that resemble peppercorns and have a sharp taste similar to pepper.

Prickly pears

It is a pear-shaped tropical fruit with protruding prickly fibers that is a membrane of a cactus family. It is 2 to 4 inches long and has a very thick coarse out of skin that can be green yellow orange red or deep purple. The flesh is sweet and juicy and contain sweet Chris edible seeds.

Kumquats

It is a small golden oval shaped fruit with a thin, sweet peel and tart center. It's appearance is of a small citrus fruit but is eaten peel and all.

Pineapple

It is a sweet acidic tropical fruit with a prickly pinecone like exterior and juicy yellow flesh

Lemon

It is a tart yellow citrus fruit with high acidity levels

Coconuts

It is a tropical fruit with white meat that is house with in a hard, fibrous brown husk. It's me contains less sugar and more protein than apples bananas and oranges.

Tropical fruit

It is a type of food that comes from a hot, humid location that, is readily available.

Lychees

It is an exotic drupe covered with a thin red in edible shell and has a light pink to white flash that is refreshing, juicy and sweet. It is needed to China.

Cantaloupe

It is an orange fleshed melon with a rough deeply grieved a brine the grooves run lengthwise from the stem

Pomegranates

It is around bright red tropical fruit with a hard thick outer skin. They measure around 3 inches in diameter and contain a white membrane that encloses hundreds of red seeds that are the edible portion.

Jackfruit

It is in Normas, spiny, oval exotic fruit with yellow flash that taste like a banana and has seeds that can be boiled or roasted and then eaten. It is the largest tree born fruit in the world. It can wait up to 100 pounds and maybe up to 36 inches long and approximately 20 inches in diameter.

Plum

It is oval-shaped drupe that grows on trees in warm climate and comes in a variety of colors such as blue purple red yellow or green when dried it is also known as prunes

Supreme

It is the flesh from the segment of citrus fruit that has been cut away from the membrane

Name sour cherries

Montmorency cherries in Morello cherries

Guava

Small oval shaped's tropical fruit, usually 2 to 3 inches in diameter within edible skin that can be yellow red or green. The flash can be white, yellow, or pink in color.

Fresh fruit grades (voluntary)

The USDA grades for fresh fruit includes: U. S. Fancy -restaurant quality US no 1-restaurant quality US no. 2 uS No 3 US extra fancy Utility Commercial

What fruit is used as a meat tenderizer

The papayas is contained enzyme papain which tenderizes meat

Irradiated fruit

The process of exposing food to low doses of gamma rays in order to destroy a deadly organism such as E. coli, Campylobacter and salmonella. Irritation also reduces spoilage bacteria, reduces insects and parasites such as free seed weevil

Currants

These are small red black or gold and white berry that grows in grape like clusters used in jams jellies and sauces and in some savory dishes

Avocado

This fruit can be a good source of protein and often used as a meat substitute for vegetarian diets

Melon

This fruit has a hard outer rain skin and a soft flesh that contains many seeds. Is a good source of vitamin C and potassium in a relatively low in calories

Orange

This fruit is a round orange colored citrus fruit

Mandarins

This fruit is a small intensely sweet citrus fruit that is closely related to the orange but it's more fragrant.

Watermelon

This melon is named for its high water content over 90% water. It is sweet and extremely juicy and it it is round or oblong shape with pink red or gold and flush in green skin.

Why do we poach fruit at such a low temperature

To help the food retained a shape while cooking

USDA grades for frozen fruit include

US grade a us fancy US grade B US grade C Or US standRd

Name the two most popular varieties of oranges

Valencia and navel oranges

Dried fruit

When moisture has been removed from fruit either naturally or through the use of machines such as a food dehydrator

When cooking fruit what do you add to keep it from becoming mushy

You add sugar, because the sugar binds to the cells of the fruit helping the food to plump up and stay firm

Hybrid fruit

result of cross breeding 2 or more fruits of different species to obtain a completely new species

How long does a pineapple take to fully mature

18 to 20 months

Strawberry

A bright red heart-shaped berry covered with tiny black seeds

What processes inhibits the growth of microorganisms without affecting the nutritional value of the fruit

Freezing fruit a.k.a. frozen fruit

Breadfruit

Is an exotic fruit that is dated native to Polynesia it has a big green skin in weight starchy flash. It is the size of a small Cannelo. The flesh is cooked and use much like a potato. it has a flavor similar to fresh bread.

Starfruit

Is shaped like a star when cut perpendicular to the stem. It has a thin edible skin enclosing translucent flesh that is crisp and juicy. It is native to Asia it ranges from 2 to 5 inches in length, 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter, and 3 to 4 ounces in weight. It is very tart and acidic to somewhat sweet