Frutta e verdura di stagione : autunno

Arancione

Like all citrus fruits, orange is presented in the form of a berry called hesperidium. Oranges are classified into four varied groups. Edible, they are known for their high vitamin C content and...

Avocado

L'avocado viene dal Messico, dove era già stato mangiato dai mesoamericani 8.000 anni fa. Importato in Europa dagli spagnoli nel 17 ° secolo, ci vollero trecento anni per trovare il suo posto nella...

Banana

La banana è un frutto antichissimo. E’ tra i frutti più consumati al mondo e commercialmente costituisce il più importante prodotto (insieme al caffè) per le nazioni dell'America Centrale Il...

Carambola

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...

Cardone

Cardoon is a plant of little economic relevance. Its production has expanded mainly in Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean coastal countries such as Cyprus and Turkey. We can also find it in North...

Castagno

The chestnuts are part of the genus Castanea. This fruit grows on a chestnut tree. It is native to temperate Northern hemisphere. All the terms which refer to chestnut in Europe are derive from the...

Cedrat

Its skin is thick, fragrant and covered with bumps. Its pulp is white, green or yellow, not very juicy but the aroma of its peel is exceptional. It is rarely used fresh. It is mainly used in...

Chayote

Like sweet potato, this perennial plant develops thick rhizomes that are its reserve and conservation organs during the dry seasons. When tender it has a lustrous peel and hard consistency. It can...

Cipolla

The world’s annual production of onions now amounts to 85 million tons. The main producers are China, India and the United States. Onion production in France is currently estimated at 321,000 tons...

Combava

The fruit is distributed fresh and the peel dry. The leaves are sent fresh, frozen or dried, and sometimes even powdered. Thailand, India, Indonesia and Malaysia are the main producer countries of...

Fagiolo Alato

When ripe, they acquire an ash brown colour and open to release the seeds. Its nutritional content is similar to that of soybeans, since winged bean seeds contain between 30% and 40% protein and...

Feijoa

Although the Feijoas are native to South America, they were adopted in the antipodes by Australians and more so by New Zealanders, who turned them into an export industry. Of course, these fruits...

Finocchio

It is a plant that has spread in the wild in all Mediterranean macroecosystems. In ancient Greece, wild fennel was associated with clear vision, but also represented the emblem of strength and...

Frutto Del Pane

The fruits, weighing up to 6 kg, are between 9 and 45 cm long and between 5 and 30 cm in diameter. At first they are green, then they vary the yellow-green, and take a yellow or ochre-yellow tint...

Frutto Della Passione

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.

Fungo

The mushroom, used as a condiment or garnish, has a worldwide production of 96 kilos per second or 3 million tons per year. 40% of this seasoning vegetable is produced in China, 35% in Europe and...

Granata

Guaiava

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...

Indivia

Worldwide production of endive is currently concentrated in three countries, France, the leading European producer, Belgium and the Netherlands. Our country produces around 160,000 tons, of which...

Jackfruit

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...

Kiwi

The name Kiwi was proposed in 1959 by the New Zealand company Turners and Growers for patriotic and political reasons. Kiwi is, on the one hand, the vernacular name of the apterygiforme, emblematic...

Kumquat

Produced mainly in China and the Philippines, they are consumed fresh or whole with their skin, or processed into candied fruits. Kumquats are also cultivated in Africa, North America, the Greek...

Lime

Lime tree, that is, the Citrus Aurantifolia, represent only a very small part of the world trade. The variety Citrus Latifolia, known commercially as Persia lime, or Tahiti, is the preferred by...

Mandarina

Il mandarino (Citrus reticulata), noto anche come mandarino o mandarino, è un piccolo albero di agrumi con frutta simile ad altre arance, di solito consumato in pianura o in macedonie. La sua polpa...

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,...

Marrone

Noce Di Cocco

Noci Fresche

The plantation of walnuts is called a walnut orchard, and like other tree nuts, it must be processed and stored properly since if there is poor storage this will make walnuts susceptible to insect...

Papaia

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...

Pastinaca

Dethroned by the potato, as well as its cousin the turnip, its cultivation was abandoned, except in the United Kingdom, in the Nordic countries and in North Africa. It has been present on...

Pera

La pera è un frutto pomposo con un sapore dolce e dolce di cui ci sono duemila varietà. Cresce sul pero Pyrus Sinensis in Cina e sul Pyrus Communis nel resto del mondo. Il pero, da cui proviene, è...

Physalis

Pompelmo

The fruit is often confused with the pamplemousse, also called pomelo, from which it inherited the important size and a little bitterness, but without the thick skin and the many seeds. This Citrus...

Rapa Svedese

They are grown for their white or yellow root intended for animal and human feeding. The other varieties are of white pulp. Depending on the maturity of the root, it is a fodder or garden...

Rucola

Coming from the Mediterranean basin, the arugula plants spread rapidly towards the east, to India. Consumed since ancient times, they are very present in the south of France and in Italy. They are...

Scalogno

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...

Scorzonera

Spinaci

It is currently cultivated in all temperate regions of our planet. World production is dominated by China, which produces about 20 million tons per year, followed by the United States, Japan,...

Star Apple

Tuberina

Its cultivation came back in the 70s and now, in winter, it is possible to acquire this pearly white tuber that looks like a large caterpillar. It has a fine and sweet flavor, similar to artichokes...