Mango: nutrition facts and health benefits
Mango is the fruit of the mango, a large tree growing easily under warm climates. Depending on the species, the mango is round or ovoid, sometimes pointed, and its weight varies from 300 to...
Lemon: nutrition facts and health benefits
The lemon is the most common and the most used of all the lemons. It is often referred to as a "lemon" without any precise color. The lemon comes from China but we do...
Watermelon: nutrition facts and health benefits
Huge fruit of a tropical plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, the watermelon has a thick and dark green bark, a red, pink or white flesh, particularly aqueous, and sown with big black seeds.
The watermelon...
Strawberry: nutrition facts and health benefits
Strawberry is a small fleshy and red fruit that grows on the strawberry. There are more than 600 varieties, some being grown commercially for almost year-round. These have been developed to ensure great fruit...
Persimmon: nutrition facts and health benefits
This tree is native in eastern China; the kaki is the fruit of the persimmon tree. It has the size of a tomato, its skin is orange, and its flesh has a flavor which...
Mangosteen: nutrition facts and health benefits
Fruit of the mangosteen, a tree native to tropical Asia, mangosteen is a rounded, purplish-shaped fruit of a size similar to a golf ball. Its skin, which is called pericarp, is thick and bitter....
Feijoa: nutrition facts and health benefits
Feijoa is an important source of vitamin C, fibre and antioxidants. This small green fruit of oblong shape and the size of a large egg has a very pleasant odor. From the guava family,...
Chokeberry (aronia): nutrition facts and health benefits
The chokeberry is a small bay that is astringent and a little sour raw. (we also called aronia in English, in reference to the birds supposed to choke after ingestion of these berries). This...
Redcurrant: nutrition facts and health benefits
The redcurrant is the fruit of a shrub with thorns and which can reach 1 meter high. There are more than 150 varieties of redcurrants. The countries producing the most of this fruit are...
Pear: nutrition facts and health benefits
The pear is an oval fruit with slightly convex sides at its base. Its skin, of varying color, evolving from green to yellow with sometimes red traces, covers a somewhat granular, very juicy flesh...
