Sweet and acid fruits — water, fibre, vitamin C, potassium and the pigment families (anthocyanins, carotenoids, flavanones) that give fruit its colour.
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Rubus fruticosus
Dark aggregate fruit of bramble canes, distinguished from raspberries by keeping the central core when picked. Sold fresh in…
Vaccinium corymbosum
Small blue-purple berries of the Vaccinium genus, sold fresh, frozen and dried. Cultivated highbush varieties are larger and…
Rubus idaeus
A hollow aggregate fruit made up of many small drupelets, harvested from thorny Rubus canes. Fragile enough that most of the crop…
Fragaria x ananassa
The aggregate fruit of a low-growing Rosaceae plant, with the seeds carried on the outside. Sold fresh year-round and frozen,…