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Cherimoya: A sweet and juicy version of the sweetsop, with far fewer seeds.


Rollinia deliciosa: A spiky black and gold fruit with the sweet flavor of lemon pudding.


Soursop: A spiky green fruit also known as the guanabana, with a sweet-and-sour white flesh and many poisonous seeds that must


be removed before consumption.

Sweetsop: A green, round, scaly fruit also known as the sugar apple, with a seed-filled interior and a sweet and creamy taste.


APPLES

Discovery: A red apple that fruits late in the season.


Gala: A medium-sized, crisp, juicy apple, with a skin that is mostly red with some yellow.


Golden Delicious: A golden, sun-filled apple with a sweet taste.


Granny Smith: A hard green apple with a sweet-tart taste.


Jonagold: A golden apple with a mild flavor.


McIntosh: A small red and white apple that is good when soft.


Pippin: A crispy and crunchy apple with red skin.


Red Delicious: A large red apple with a sweet flavor and a hard crunch.


Spartan: A medium-sized red and green apple with a mildly sour taste.


Starking Delicious: A small red and gold apple.


ASIAN PEAR: A sweet beige-skinned fruit that has a taste and texture similar to a pear but looks like an apple.


AVOCADOS


Alligator pear: A watery, light-colored, small, slender avocado.


Bacon: A rich bacon-flavored avocado with smooth dark green skin.


Cocktail avocado: A sweet avocado that is the smallest of its kind.


Common: A round, hard-skinned avocado with a creamy interior.


Ettinger: A green, somewhat rough-skinned avocado with a creamy interior.


Fuerte: A watery avocado with smooth skin that’s sometimes purple.


Haas: A dark, rough-skinned avocado with a buttery taste. One of the most popular varieties.


Nabal: A large purple avocado whose flavor varies from tree to tree.


Reed: A round, green-skinned, sweet and creamy avocado.


Sharwil: A green-skinned, dry, buttery avocado.


BANANAS

Apple: A small starchy banana with a reddish interior.


Bluefield: This is the largest, fattest, and sweetest of its kind.


Chinese: A large and very sweet banana. Slightly thinner than the Bluefield variety.


Cuban red: A red semistarchy, semisweet banana.


Dessert: A medium-sized sweet and creamy banana.


Ice cream: A large triangular banana with white flesh reminiscent of vanilla ice cream.


Lady finger: A tiny and supersweet banana.


Plantain: A dry and starchy banana.


BERRIES

Black raspberry: A medium-sized berry formed of many black beads.


Blackberry: A black seed-filled berry with a very strong, slightly sour taste.


Blueberry: A small blue bush berry with a sweet taste. A very high source of pectin.


Boysenberry: A sweet purple berry.


Cranberry: A very tangy and sour red berry.


Currant


Black: A very sweet berry often eaten dried.


Red: A slightly more tart red variety


White: A whitish-yellow variety.


Dewberry: A sweet, tiny cousin of the raspberry.


Gooseberry: A green bush berry related to the blueberry.


Mulberry: A black berry that has a sweet-and-sour flavor and grows on trees.

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