Food for Today: Fruit

What's a fruit?

Cameo, Red delicious, Granny Smith, Rowan, Anjou Pear, Loquat, Balwin Apples are examples of:

• Berries

• Melons

• Pomes

• Drupes

Cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and olives are examples of:

• Pomes

• Tropical Fruits

• Melons

• Drupes

Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Canary, Watermelon, Casaba are examples of:

Leo bought some avocados how ever they are small and its flesh is hard, and hard to peel. Its seed isn't dark brown and it tastes like grass. It means that the avocados were

Jennifer gave me this apple however it doesn't taste at all. It means that that apple is

Why are many fruits picked unripe?

Chemical reaction in which oxygen reacts with an enzyme that causes the fruit to turn brown.

Process in which chlorophyll returns to the skin of ripe citrus fruits.

Method used to remove the peel of fresh fruit in a quicker way by soaking the fruit into simmering water (85° to 96° Celsius) for 15 seconds and then moving the fruit into cold water with ice for two minutes.