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...
Avocado: nutrition facts and health benefits
The avocado is the fruit of the avocado tree. Its clear flesh has the consistency of butter. According to variety, the avocado has a shiny and smooth or textured, dark green or brown skin...
Kiwi: nutrition facts and health benefits
The kiwi is an egg-shaped fruit that grows on a vine (Actinidia chinensis). It has a thick, brown, and hairy skin which, despite its uninviting appearance, is edible. It contains a green, rather firm...
Sapodilla: nutrition facts and health benefits
The sapodilla, also known as the loquat of America, which has been well-known for Europeans for more than three centuries, remains uncommon in western countries. However, it has long been prepared for medicinal and...
Parsnip: nutrition facts and health benefits
Parsnip is a herbaceous plant which has a very fleshy root resembling of the one of the carrot. From the time it was white, these two vegetables were much confused. It was once cultivated...
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....
Lingonberry (cowberry): nutrition facts and health benefits
The lingonberry is a small red berry. There are several varieties, such as cowberry or cranberry vine of Mount Ida. Lingonberry is small, red and acid, slightly floury. It is found on the early...
Pepper: nutrition facts and health benefits
Pepper is a fruit used as a vegetable derived from the plant with the same name. This annual plant belongs to the Chili family, and grows only in temperate climates. This is a sweet...
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...
Papaya: nutrition facts and health benefits
Papaya fruit is a very large pear-shaped berry, 10-40 cm, depending on the variety. The papaya tree is in fact a giant herb giving a woody trunk and whose very large leaves are grouped...
