Recent questions tagged fruit

Description : What are some vegetables and fruits that do not need to be pollinated?

Last Answer : I am far from sure, but I don’t think grains or nuts need to be pollinated.

Description : What do you think of the fruit orange?

Last Answer : Oranges are higher sources of fiber than orange juice.

Description : What is the best way to transport a banana?

Last Answer : Just embrace the brown banana.

Description : Has anyone grown an avocado seed long enough to get fruit from it?

Last Answer : Gardeners can grow avocado from the large, round seeds within the fruit. In fact, many people do grow seedling plants from grocery store avocados, but the resulting tree may not be of the same ... all. That is because avocado trees are generally grafted onto rootstock. I have never been successful.

Description : How much is 14 oz of fresh fruits?

Last Answer : It looks like 1.75 cups. Is it a meal? I suppose it dépends on what the fruits are and if your other meals include the other things not found in those fruits, or not genenrally in fruits.

Description : Does applesauce float or sink in water?

Last Answer : It’s a lab question. Grab some applesauce and put it in water and see for yourself.

Description : Why do they steal fruit and not candy or cheese?

Last Answer : Have you asked them? I wouldn't steal the fruit, so I can't imagine the justification going on there. Maybe stealing fruit is less of a crime in those people's eyes because they've become ... There's a weird grey area around fruit still on the tree in many (otherwise upstanding) citizens' ethics.

Description : What are the vegetables that grow by the tree?

Last Answer : Leaves, bark, roots and branches are vegetative aspects on trees.

Description : How can I ripen the apricots I just bought?

Last Answer : Place them in a brown paper bag on a kitchen counter, not in the fridge, until they ripen.

Description : What do you prefer, fruit or vegetables?

Last Answer : Fruit, because doing it with vegetables is a crime.

Description : What is the difference between a papaya and a mango?

Last Answer : They are both native to the same tropical location and their skin looks similar Mango is a sweet and sour flavor like peach or pineapple Papaya has a sweet flavor like apricots. Mangoes have one big ... skin and they help with acne/dark spots. They also help with heart care and cancer prevention.

Description : Is it safe to eat cherries that are bruised?

Last Answer : I can’t see your cherries, but I’ve eaten bruised cherries before. They were fine. Wash them as usual, and enjoy.

Description : How do I defrost strawberries?"?

Last Answer : Put them in a pot filled with room temperature water. Microwaving them will turn them to mush.

Description : What are the fruits you find weird?

Last Answer : Kumquats. They look like they'd be sweet and delicious, but they are horrible and their name is ridiculous. Passionfruit is anything but. Pulpy, slimy seeds, yuk. Granateple what is that in English? ... means garnet' in regards to the colour, but it's my weird multilingual brain doing its thing.

Description : What's the best method for ripening bosc pears, and how can I tell when they're ripe?

Last Answer : I'm beginning to think that the time at which they are picked is crucial to the quality of how they will turn out. Whenever I buy them, I either get good ones, or duds. My grandmother told me ... looking, it tells me they will be hard and tasteless. You can also feel the difference in texture.

Description : Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable?

Last Answer : It is, of course, as everyone with even basic education knows, the seed-bearing ovary of a flowering plant, thusly a fruit and more specfically, a berry.

Description : How do they section grapefruit for commercial retail sale?

Last Answer : They do that in Canada. You can buy liquid segmented grapefruit in a jar. Unfortunately they don’t taste that good… it has a bite. The white part is healthy for you. It is high in fiber.

Description : Just wonder how you consider anything with a seed is a fruit, when there is a lot of vegetable has a seed like squash and bitter gourd?

Last Answer : Fruit has a botanical defintion that is different from how the term is commonly used. To a botanist, fruit is any container of a flowering plant that contains fertilized seeds.

Description : What do you call the roll of plastic bags with twist ties that you use to put fruits and vegetables in the grocery isle?

Last Answer : The roll of plastic bags with twist ties that you use to put fruits and vegetables in the grocery isle. Here’s a technique: lick one of your fingers and put the end of the bag between them, then slide your fingers. After that, fluff out the bag to get it open.

Description : Do you keep fruit in the fridge?

Last Answer : answer:The only fruit that I don't refrigerate are bananas (it seems that refrigeration accelerates bruising), and any that aren't at least partially ripe. When I can't find any pears or nectarines that ... them outside the fridge until they start to ripen. Then I'll put them inside once they do.

Description : Would you eat an entire cantaloupe at one sitting?

Last Answer : Haven’t but I could. Is this a “when did you stop beating your wife” question?

Description : If Adam and Eve didn't know right from wrong till after eating the forbidden fruit, how was it morally wrong to eat it?

Last Answer : answer:Because God TOLD them not to eat it. He said, Don't eat them apples offen that tree. Them's my winta apples. Bye n bye the debil, he comes up and says, What fo' don't you eat dem apples offen ... over de fence! YOU WORK FOR YO' HASH! And that's how it was. There's more if you want it.

Description : Do you consider raisins to be actual fruit or just filler?

Last Answer : Is the mighty grape a fruit?

Description : I just ordered a fruit basket for myself for food... has anyone else done this?

Last Answer : answer:I know when I was at the depths of my mental illness, getting out of the house was the last thing I wanted to do, but it was also the most important thing for me. I went to the coffee shop and ... put on your shoes and stand in the yard. Still too much? Take a shower. Best of luck to you.

Description : Are Africanized bees suffering from colony collapse syndrome?

Last Answer : Hard to say, but “they” ( researchers/scientists ) think it has to do with LT use of systemic pesticides. Maybe the African Bees are not as sensitive to them, or…they are not numerous enough to be feeding in hardcore Ag. production areas. Maybe Monsanto is cloning them to be super bees. lol

Description : Anyone ever tried mangosteen? What does it taste like?

Last Answer : It’s very difficult to describe how tropical fruits taste. Mangosteens are delightful, though. Nice and, uh… sweet. With a bit of tartness that lightens the flavor and makes it more… uh… delightful. Like I said, difficult to describe. Try one if you get the opportunity.

Description : Will pears ripen further after being picked?

Last Answer : answer:Ripening When you bring unripened pears home, store them in a bowl at room temperature. They should ripen within a week. Placing them in a paper bag can speed up the process. You can ... not stop the process entirely; they will only be good in the refrigerator for another few days. Source

Description : Do you thump your melons?

Last Answer : No, I don't thump melons but what I do is probably even worse, in the eyes of my fellow shoppers: I sniff them; particularly cantaloupes. I shove their little cantaloupe belly buttons right under ... should smell like a cantaloupe, and if it doesn't, I put it back and try another one.

Description : Why is raspberry candy mainly blue?

Last Answer : My best guess would be because red candies pretty much give you the expectation of cherry or strawberry flavor. Blue wasn’t really taken by any other color association. Black raspberry would just be unappetizing.

Description : What is the best fruit to eat as a snack? Or in general?

Last Answer : Cherries!

Description : Where can I buy mangosteens in NYC (or elsewhere in the USA?!) ?

Last Answer : You can buy them here…in Hawaii…Well, you asked about elsewhere in the USA…I know it’s far, but there you have it. :)

Description : Why does a banana peel instantly begin to turn brown after it is removed?

Last Answer : answer:It doesn't just happen when you eat one. That just speeds up the process. Bananas left outside will begin to turn brown within a few days. This occurs because bananas contain an enzyme called ... oxygen and coats the banana with a sort of rust that accounts for the dark brown color. Source

Description : How do I store fruit?

Last Answer : answer:Stone Fruit Peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, etc. should be stored at room temperature until ripe. Storing in a paper bag with ethylene-producing fruit such as apples, pears or bananas will hasten ... temperature, so she leaves them in a bowl on the counter until she wants to eat them.

Description : Why does rotten fruit taste like booze?

Last Answer : because it is fermenting on you.

Description : Can you trick the self-serve scanners at the grocery store?

Last Answer : Wow…I never thought about that….......

Description : What kind of grapes were they?

Last Answer : So…they were different from just regular green grapes?

Description : What are the price of Seedless Grapes in Your area ?

Last Answer : In areas where I've lived (Providence, Boston, San Francisco), I've seen seedless grape (red and green) prices fluctuate between $0.99/lb to $2.99/lb at the local grocery store. I only buy when ... 99/lb because they are really quite heavy and a bag will normally run me $3-5 even at that price.

Description : What are the sweetest fruits I can add to my fruit salad?

Last Answer : Apples, bananas, and grapes :)

Description : How can you wash fruits and vegtables naturally?

Last Answer : This source suggests vinegar is best: Previously, they (America's Test Kitchen) tested vinegar to remove surface wax and pesticides but wondered about its efficacy in destroying bacteria. They ... give the percentage for antibacterial soap but it was slightly better than the vinegar solution.

Description : If someone lives in a pineapple under the sea, does that pineapple become a yellow submarine?

Last Answer : intertsing.. im not suer but you coudl go and ask a artist or something who nows about fruit

Description : Does anyone else find this odd?

Last Answer : Well, yeah, maybe a little bit.

Description : Is a great tasting orange (or any fruit) as nutrient filled as one that doesn't taste so good?

Last Answer : That depends upon so many other considerations than taste.

Description : What do you really know about acai berries?

Last Answer : I think it’s all bullshit.

Description : Kiwi fruit skin: do you like to eat it or peel it?

Last Answer : well, never heard of eating the skin. i always peel it. but it can’t hurt to try it. :)

Description : What came first, orange the colour or orange the fruit?

Last Answer : Fruit first. Language later.

Description : A question involving fruit

Last Answer : Ha ha!! Orange fart!! I don’t have the answer, but I’d be kind of afraid to eat it!!

Description : Fruit Flies?

Last Answer : See, when a guy fruit fly decides he likes a girl fruit fly… well, you get the picture. Basically other fruit flys. :)

Description : What is this fruit?

Last Answer : Could be a jackfruit, a foul-tasting Asian fruit. Where’s the picture of it?

Description : Tiny oranges dropping off tree?

Last Answer : I don’t have answer but I’d like to know where you live that you can have potted orange tree. I want one. Tell me more.

Description : I need a list of the different pigments in fruit and vegtables?

Last Answer : Try a Google search