On Food and Cooking
due to a number of organic acids, notably oxalic acid, which contributes about a tenth of the total acidity o ...
Except for the watermelon, melons are fruits of Cucumis melo, a close relative of the cucumber (C. sativus) a ...
cutting; it’s now recommended that melons be thoroughly washed in hot soapy water before preparing them. Food ...
The differences between the two melon families are caused by differences in their physiology. Th ...
but will not be the same as the aroma of vine- ripenedfruit. In addition to fruity esters, melons contain so ...
Pancha (charentais x muskmelon): netted and ribbed, orange, very aromatic Winter Melons: less aromatic, keep ...
flexuosus group, long and twisted like a snake, which includes the “Armenian cucumber.” There is also ...
it by the 4th century BCE. World production of watermelons is now double the production of all other melons combin ...
chlorophyll loss and thus ripeness, and a solid resonance when thumped. In addition to being eaten fresh ...
from the early European idea that the dried fruit was an “Indian fig.” The cactus arrived in the Old World ...
Dates Dates are the sweet, easily dried fruits of a desert palm, Phoenix dactylifera, that can tolerate s ...
concentrated when dry, with less than 20% moisture. Dry dates are 60 to 80% sugar, together with s ...
the date they readily dry in the sun to a long- keeping, concentrated source of nourishment, they have b ...
pollinated by tiny wasps that enter through the pore. Many fig varieties will set fruit without pollinat ...
The walls of the fig fruit contain latex vessels that carry a protein-digesting enzyme, ficin, and tannin cells ...
eaten fresh, dried, pickled, in rice-based cakes, and fermented into alcoholic drinks. Pomegranate Pomegranates ...
rich in tannins that it was once used for tanning leather! Because each fruitlet contains a p ...
BCE, and medieval crusaders brought sour oranges back with them to Europe; Genoese and Portuguese traders int ...
and these may have been their original attraction, well before human selection developed varieties with s ...
pectin. And riding atop the albedo is the skin, a thin, pigmented layer with tiny spherical glands that ...
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