Fruits
This fruit can be eaten without being cooked, can be made as a chow, as well as eaten as a condiment. Fruit ends with 'o'
Mango
Another name for Aloo
Potato
Fig is the same as
Banana
This vegetable is known as bitter melon in America.
Caraille
It is a stew that has breadfruit, salted meat, vegetables and coconut milk in one pot.
Oildown
This crop was the chief product used in the Caribbean to produce sugar.
Sugarcane
This vegetable is used to produce a punch that is red in colour.
Beetroot
Papaya is a soft tropical fruit with a yellowish-orange color. The local name is
Paw paw
The name for this fruit is called portugal in Trinidad.
Tangerine
This fruit is popular for making local jam?
Guava
This fruit is green and circular on the outside and red on the inside once ripe.
Watermelon
A favourite type of local pepper used to flavor dishes.
Scotch bonnet pepper
It is called yuca root in many Latin American countries. It is used to make pones, it can be buttered and can be made into a food called farine.
Cassava
Chick peas is used usually found in Indian delicacies such as roti and doubles. Another name for chick peas is
Channa
This type of peas is used in pelau.
Pigeon peas
This fruit when sliced, gives slices shaped liked stars. The name of this local fruit is
Five fingers
Local name for Chinese cabbage
Patchoi
This Indian Kale is used to make callaloo.
Dasheen Bush
It is often used as the main ingredient in guacamole?
Zaboca
Used to make round balls that have a unique, sweet and sour flavor covered with brown sugar.
Tamarind
It is a specific type of plantain; shorter and thicker than normal.
Mocco
Local name for Chinese Spinach
Bhagi
Nasberry must be ripe before eating, and as the fruit matures, the yellow-orange to red-brown flesh will soften and develop an aqueous, pulpy texture.
Sapodilla
Saffron is a yellow spice that is added to flavour and colour any dish. The international name is
Tumeric
The national dish of Jamaica.
Ackee and saltfish