Seasonal fruits and vegetables : winter

Avocado

Native to Mexico, avocado is the fruit of avocado (persea americana), a tree in the Lauraceae family. There are three main varieties, the most popular of one is Hass avocado. The word avocado comes...

Banana

Botanically considered as a berry, banana is an edible plant produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants. It is generally sterile when it comes from domesticated varieties.

Bergamot

Bergamot is grown mainly in the province of Reggio Calabria, in Italy, on a narrow strip of the coast bordering the Ionian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. This region produces 95% of the world’s...

Carom

The fruits can be harvested 45 to 90 days after the flowering, that is, the period in which the flower is fully open and functional. They can bear their first fruits at their 5th year. The yield of...

Clementin

Unlike the mandarine, clementine is seedless. In the ripening stage, the clementine is green and acquires its orange colour only if it is under the effect of winter temperature.

Coconut

Custard Apple

Fleshy fruit, with a diameter of a tennis ball and the shape of a large heart covered by a velvety green peel. It takes 5 to 8 months to mature. It goes from green to almost black. It contains...

Date

Ginger

This rhizome is applied as a spice in the Asian culinary world, especially in India. It is also used in the West due to its medicinal properties, and for the manufacture of ginger ale (soft drink)...

Gourd

The pumpkin is harvested as a vegetable plant for its edible fruit when ripe. The term designates both the plant and the fruit consumed as a vegetable. It is one of the five most commonly...

Guava

The skin is extremely thin and subtle, with a shade that varies from green to yellow, these being the colors between the growth phase and ripening respectively. In some varieties the crop can have...

Jack Fruit

This little-known tropical tree in our lands is actually a cousin of the breadfruit. From the third year, some species, like Singapore’s Jackfruit, are able to grow fruit. However, it usually takes...

Jerusalem Artichoke

Native to North America, it was cultivated by the Amerindian tribes long before the arrival of the Europeans. The French explorer Champlain discovered it in 1605 during his expeditions to Canada....

Leek

Its leaves, sometimes called pseudo-stems, are consumed as vegetables. This vegetable has, in fact, long leaves, flat, dark green or yellowish green, more or less wide. The base of the embedded...

Mango

The mango is a fleshy fruit that can weigh from 0.3 to 2 kg. In botany, it is a drupe whose pulp adheres to a wide, flat and slippery bone. It can be round, oval or reniform, and has a yellow,...

Papaya

Papaya is always a fruit of intense commercialization. Annual world production is currently estimated at 15 million tons and is concentrated in Asia at 51 per cent, in the Americas at 39 per cent...

Passion Fruit

Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower. It has a tough outer rind and juicy, seed-filled center. It is native to Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina, and Brazil.

Physalis

Pomegranate

Red Kuri Squash

The Red kuri squash is very rich in provitamin A and in various elements such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, silicon and sodium. It also contains many amino acids and...

Scarole

Escarole is a salad with large, more or less toothed, curly and crispy leaves. Its core is paler and much less bitter than the outer leaves. These salads can be very voluminous and reach up to 55...

Shallot

Cultivated as a condiment and a vegetable strongly integrated in the French cuisine, the shallot is sometimes considered as a separate spice and other times as a simple variety of onions whose...

Soursop

The fruits are syncarps ovoid or heart-shaped. The largest can measure up to 40 cm in length with a weight of 7 kg. It has a dark green peel and is covered with thorns. The inner part consists of a...

Strawberry Tree Fruit

The fruits are edible soft-tasting berries, about 2 cm in diameter, of bright red colour when ripe, containing numerous seeds and of sweet taste when reddish. It matures in about 12 months, in...