Sweet and acid fruits — water, fibre, vitamin C, potassium and the pigment families (anthocyanins, carotenoids, flavanones) that give fruit its colour.
4 foods in Tropical fruits
Musa acuminata
The fruit of a large tropical herb, harvested green and ripened after picking. Ripening converts most of its starch into sugars,…
Mangifera indica
A tropical stone fruit in the cashew family, with hundreds of cultivars differing sharply in fibre, sweetness and aroma. Eaten…
Carica papaya
A soft tropical fruit with orange or red flesh and black seeds, eaten ripe as fruit and green as a vegetable. Its latex contains…
Ananas comosus
A tropical bromeliad whose edible fruit is formed from many fused berries around a fibrous core. Notable for bromelain, a group…