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Grapefruits. Similar to lemons and oranges, grapefruit are available year-round, but are best from January through the spring. Ruby red tend to be a lovely balance between sweet and tart, though ...
Calabaza fruits for sale in a supermarket in the Philippines Calabaza vine. Calabaza is the generic name in the Spanish language for any type of winter squash.Within an English-language context it specifically refers to the West Indian pumpkin, a winter squash typically grown in the West Indies, tropical America, and the Philippines.
Quince cheese or quince jelly originated from the Iberian peninsula and is a firm, sticky, sweet reddish hard paste made by slowly cooking down the quince fruit with sugar. [35] It is called dulce de membrillo in the Spanish-speaking world, where it is eaten with manchego cheese. [36] Quince is used in the Levant, especially in Syria.
A clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a tangor, a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange (C. × deliciosa) and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis), [1] [2] [3] named in honor of Clément Rodier, a French missionary who first discovered and propagated the cultivar in Algeria. [4]
What's in season during the winter? Your local grocery store might appear well-stocked with all your favorite summer fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and strawberries, but produce grown outside ...
The name mandarin orange is a calque of Swedish mandarin apelsin [apelsin from German Apfelsine (Apfel + Sina), meaning Chinese apple], first attested in the 18th century.The Imperial Chinese term "mandarine" was first adopted by the French for this fruit.
The Santa Claus melon, sometimes known as Christmas melon [1] or Piel de Sapo (Toad Skin), is a variety of melon (family Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis melo, Inodorus group) originating in Spain that grows to about a foot in length and is ovoid in shape.
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama (/ ˈ h ɪ k ə m ə / or / dʒ ɪ ˈ k ɑː m ə /; [1] Spanish jícama ⓘ; from Nahuatl xīcamatl, [ʃiːˈkamatɬ]) or Mexican turnip, is a native Mesoamerican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root. It is in the pea family (Fabaceae).