Fruits and Vegetables (Week 10 Lecture 14) Flashcards
______ family provided edible flesh & seeds rich in sulfur-containing amino acids
Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae fruit is known to ______.
Pepo
What are exampls of pepo fruit?
Cucumber, squah, zuchinni, pumpkin
What is the most important fruit vegetable crop in the US.
Tomato
What family do eggplants, tomatoes and peppers belong too?
Solanaceae
Green fruits contain ______, yellow orange fruits contain ______, red/purple fruits contain ______, and white fruits contain ______.
chlorophyll
carotenoids
anthocyanins
flavones
What fruit is most widely cultivated?
Grape
What fruit crop was important for oil in mediterranean people for 5000 years?
olives
True or False: Only 1 or 2 % of world’s olive crop eaten as fruit
True
What family does the kiwi (cashew, mango) belong too?
Anacardiaceae, native to Asia
The ______ family consists of apples, pears, plums, peaches, strawberries, rose, blackberries.
Rosaceae
What are the 4 subfamilies of the Rosaceae.
Divided into 4 subfamilies
• Spiraeoideae
• Maloideae - Malus (apple), Pyrus (pears) – pome producers
• Amygdaloideae - Prunus (plums, peaches, cherries, apricots)– drupe producers
• Rosoideae - Rosa (roses), Fragaria (strawberry), Rubus (blackberries & raspberries) – aggregate fruit producers
What is the most important temperate fruit tree crop in the world and native too?
Apple, central asia
True or False: Nectarines are mutants of prunes?
True
______ are a particular variety which are dried plums
and Propagation is by grafting
Prunes
What are the berries of the rosaceae?
strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries and loganberries
What family do blueberries and cranberries belong too?
Ericaceae
What is the walnut family?
Juglandaceae
Characteristic of fruits in tropical regions.
• Many more kinds of edible fruits than in temperate regions
Commercially second behind temperate fruits
Higher perishability than temperate fruits
Most gathered from wild or cultivated on limited scale and consumed locally
Exceptions include: bananas, pineapples, and avocados
What family is the most widely grown fruit in the world?
Rutaceae (citrus)
What are the three main classes of hybrid of sweet oranges?
Bloods, normals, navels
What family does the pineapple belong too?
Bromeliaceae
True or False: Pineapples are Pressed for juice that contains bromelain that prevents use in gelatin and milk and used as a meat tenderizer
True
What family do bannanas belong too?
Musaceae
