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...
Dragon fruit: nutrition facts and health benefits
The dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is the fruit of a cactus named Hylocereus. It can be grown inside homes, but it needs certain conditions to bloom and give fruit, which is not possible...
Physalis: nutrition facts and health benefits
Physalis is a fruit widely consumed, especially fresh and in jams. It resembles a small yellow-orange cherry, which is removed at maturity from a closed calyx, membranous and green turning to brown and an...
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...
Grapefruit: nutrition facts and health benefits
Pomelo and grapefruit should not be confused, although it is usual to designate the pomelo by calling it, wrongly, grapefruit. If they are cousins they both belong to the citrus family, which means citrus...
Bitter orange: nutrition facts and health benefits
The bitter orange, also called bigarade orange coming from the orange tree, is a citrus fruit smaller than the sweet orange. Its orange skin is rough, thick and tinted with green. Its flesh is...
Orange: nutrition facts and health benefits
The orange is the fruit of a tree originated in China and has been cultivated for millennia. The orange has a thick and rough skin and contains a juicy and the flesh is separated...
Cantaloupe: nutrition facts and health benefits
Cantaloupe is the fruit of a creeping plant which belongs to the large Cucurbitaceae family. It consists of a very thick skin, which, according to the varieties, is smooth or not, and presents divisions....
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....
Kumquat: nutrition facts and health benefits
The kumquat is the smallest of citrus fruits: its size varies from 2.5 to 5 cm. It looks like a tiny orange. Its flesh is very juicy and divided into quarters. Its skin, very...
