Types of Fruit
These types of fruits are small and juicy with thin skins.
Berries
How can you tell when your fruit is ripe?
When they have reached full size, full color, and have a sweet scent.
Beets, carrots, and parsnips are what kind of vegetables?
Roots
When vegetables are cooked, they lose both color and flavor...True or False
True
Name 3 mild flavored vegetables...
Peas, green beans, spinach, corn, beets, parsnips
These fruits have thick rinds and many seeds.
How can you ripen fruit if it is unripe?
Place in a brown paper bag at room temperature.
Lettuce, spinach, and kale are examples of what?
Leaves
Cooking methods and time differ based on vegetable color...True or False
True
A prune is what?
A dried plum
A mango is an example of what fruit type?
Tropical
When cut fruit starts to brown, what process is happening?
Enzymatic browning
Onions, garlic, shallots, and chives are examples of what vegetable type?
Bulbs
What happens to potatoes when they cook?
Starch absorbs water, potato swells and becomes easier to digest
Name 3 strongly flavored vegetables...
Cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, yellow turnips, rutabagas
These fruits have a core containing seeds.
Pomes
When fruit is cooked, what is happening to the fruit?
Cellulose in the fruit is softening, making it easy to digest.
Broccoli and Cauliflower are examples of what?
Flowers
When orange and yellow vegetables are boiled, what happens to the water they are boiled in if you over cook?
The water will turn orange due to carotene.
Scurvy is a disease that occurs when you don't have enough ______ in your diet
Vitamin C
Stone fruits are what type of fruit?
Drupes
Fruit that is dipped in batter and fried it called?
Fritters
Beans, corn, and peas are examples of what?
Seeds
What happens to white vegetable if over cooked?
Turn yellow or gray, and become very very mushy.
Name 3 vegetables that are actually considered fruit.
Tomato, squash, cucumber, green beans, pumpkin, eggplant