Fruits & Vegetables
30 entries in the Fruits & Vegetables compendium.
Choy sumA leafy green with yellow flowers, prized in Chinese cuisine.Cider appleApples grown for cider production, classified by tannin and acid content.Cooking appleApples used primarily for cooking, larger and tarter than dessert varieties.Cooking bananaThe versatile, savory cousin of the sweet banana.CowpeaA hardy, nitrogen-fixing legume vital for semiarid regions.CucumberA widely-cultivated creeping vine plant with cylindrical fruits.Cucumis meloA species of Cucumis with diverse cultivated varieties.Cucumis metuliferusAnnual vine with spiny fruit, native to Southern Africa.CucurbitaGenus of herbaceous fruits including squash and pumpkin.DaikonA mild winter radish native to East Asia, used globally.Date palmA slow-growing palm cultivated for its sweet, edible dates.DewberryTrailing brambles with edible berries, related to blackberries.Dragon fruitA cactus fruit native to Mexico and Central America.DurianA spiny, pungent fruit known as the king of fruits.EndiveA bitter-leafed vegetable from the genus Cichorium.FenugreekAnnual plant used as herb, spice, and vegetable since antiquity.Finger milletA drought-tolerant cereal staple of Africa and Asia.FonioA fast-growing, drought-tolerant West African cereal grain.Fuji (apple)Sweet, crisp apple cultivar developed in Japan in 1939.Gai lanA leafy vegetable with thick stems and small florets.Gala (apple)Sweet, striped apple that became the top cultivar in the United States.Garden cressFast-growing edible herb with peppery flavor.Golden DeliciousA sweet, yellowish-green apple cultivar from West Virginia.Grains of paradiseA pungent West African spice once traded as 'grains of paradise.'Granny SmithApple cultivar discovered in Australia in 1868 by Maria Ann Smith.Hass avocadoThe most consumed avocado cultivar worldwide.HoneycrispApple cultivar that transformed the apple industry.Honeydew (melon)Smooth-rind melon, pale green flesh, high in vitamin C.HuckleberryNorth American name for several Vaccinium and Gaylussacia berry plants.KabochaA sweet winter squash of Japanese origin, versatile in cooking.
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