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their shape and substance when baked. The pigments can turn odd shades of green if cooked with alkaline ...

other is their very high content of phenolic compounds (up to 200 milligrams per 100 grams), some of which ...

the alcohol to gel. Lingonberries or cowberries are the fruit of a European relative of the cranberry, V. viti ...

musky, “catty” sulfur compound that is also found in sauvignon blanc wines. Black currants are also ...

production goes to make wine; of the rest, about two-thirds are eaten fresh and a third are m ...

fairly neutral, green aroma (Thompson seedless), or be flowery and citrusy from terpenes (muscat), ...

accelerated by high temperatures, so a lighter color can be obtained by drying the grapes in the shade. Golde ...

was an important sweetener in the times before cheap table sugar, but provides tartness and aroma as well ...

free varieties with yellow, red, and purple flesh.) Cross-sectional slices of kiwi are thus very at ...

259), which pureeing, juicing, and drying can make more apparent and irritating in the mouth and throat. ...

20 species range across the northern hemisphere. The plants are easy to grow and therefore are grown ...

cold storage. The pineapple note in standard strawberries comes from the presence of ethyl esters. Some ...

Europe had its own native strawberry (F. vesca and F. moschata), which is now called the “wild” strawberry or frais ...

pineapple. Modern strawberry varieties, large and red and flavorful, derive from these two all-American ancestors. ...

used in Persian cooking, where they provide the tart rubies in a dish called jeweled rice. Food Words: ...

ground cherry or gooseberry, Physalis peruviana, came from South America, while the ordinary ground cherry, P ...

apples are to Americans. Japanese persimmons are sweet, low-acid, mild fruits, with a few brown seeds su ...

may be the first example of controlled- atmosphere storage! They simply buried the fruit in mud for several days ...

neutral baking powder or shorten the cooking time and you get a light orange pudding). Persimmon flesh can be wh ...

rhabarbarum, that is native to temperate Eurasia and became popular in early 19th- century England as on ...