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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Fruit and Vegetables
Caesar. The Caesar salad was named after Caesar Cardini, a Mexican chef.
| This hybrid of a grapefruit and tangerine comes from Jamaica. It has bumpy, greenish yellow skin. It is the size of a grapefruit, or large orange, and has a pleasant citrus flavor. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| The wrinkled, purple-brown exterior of this tropical fruit surrounds a yellowish interior with edible seeds. The flavor is both acidic and sweet. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This is a tropical fruit grown in Hawaii that is very digestible. When ripe the skin is yellow-green. The center cavity is made up of black-gray seeds. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This golden-orange, small roundish fruit mainly comes from Japan or China. It may be eaten whole just as a grape is eaten. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This tasty, sweet egg-shaped fruit has a fuzzy brown exterior that conceals green flesh studded with black, edible seeds. It originated in China, and its name is misleading. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This fruit is also known as a custard apple because of the texture of its cream-colored flesh. The exterior is tough and green. It may be eaten with a spoon to work around the shiny black seeds. The flavor is sweet and tropical. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| Now for the fruits. This is a yellow, five-ribbed fruit with a floral aroma popular in Asia, South America, and the Carribean. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This vegetable is crisp, light, and crunchy. This round root-like vegetable especially popular in Germany has a radish flavor. Most are light green in color some are purple. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| These vegetables are the ivory-colored interiors of palm trees with a flavor somewhat like an artichoke. They are usually purchased in a can. What are they? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| Native to Italy, this celery-like vegetable is distinguished by a green feathery top. The taste is licorice-like, and the texture is crunchy. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| Shaped like a carrot but white in color, this Oriental vegetable can be eaten in salads or on a raw vegetable platter. It's low in calories and high in vitamin C. It's taste is mild, juicy, and crisp. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This vegetable is a mustard-flavored green that originated in the Mediterranean area. Its bitter flavor can add zest to a salad. What is it? | Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables
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| This might be far-fetching..or quite easy. Which one of the below is a mango-flavoured soft drink (not a fruit juice canned or otherwise) marketed by Pepsi? | Go Man! Take A Mango Quiz!
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Slice. The other 3 are mango flavoured/pulp based drinks too. Maaza is owned by Coca Cola.
| The fruit of the mango is called___________? (Of course, mango trees produce mangoes! But there IS a term for the fruit.) | Go Man! Take A Mango Quiz!
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Drupe. The fruit of the mango is called a Drupe - consisting of the mesocarp (edible fleshy part) and endocarp (large woody, flattened pit). Mangoes are not Stones but are often called 'Stonefruits' due to the large seed/flattened pit inside. Carp is a fish. Crope? Try me.
Leaves. Mango leaves are considered toxic and can kill cattle or other grazing livestock. But Hindus have great faith on the leaves. They adorn their doorways with mango leaves durng festivities as it is considered healthy and auspicious.
Chutney. [Hindi, "Chut-Knee" to taste.]
Avakai is a marinated pickle. Putney is the starting point of the annual Oxford Vs. Cambridge Boat Race (Mortlake being the other end), Britney is one hot sweet dish!!!
Mexico. That was a twister! The leading mango producer is India, but very little is exported out of the country as most are consumed within the country! How many mangoes can a billion people eat?
T. It's tree is green at all times of the year. But it bears fruit in the height of summer. The hotter it is, the sweeter it becomes. No wonder Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Haiti and India are all abundant in mangoes.
F. Beyond being delicious and rich in vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, mangoes contain an enzyme with stomach soothing properties similar to papain found in papayas.Mango, both in its green and ripe form is a very good tenderizing agent due to these same enzymes, therefore ideal to include in any marinade. Ask any Indian. They would tell you that there are more ways of pickling mangoes than the number of varieties available!
| The scientific name for mango. Mangifera ______? It ends with the name of the country where it originated. What? | Go Man! Take A Mango Quiz!
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Indica. Mangos originated in East India, Burma and the Andaman Islands bordering the Bay of Bengal. Around the 5th century B.C., Buddhist monks are believed to have introduced the mango to Malaysia and eastern Asia - legend has it that Buddha found tranquility and repose in a mango grove. Persian traders took the mango into the middle east and Africa, from there the Portuguese brought it to Brazil and the West Indies. Mango cultivars arrived in Florida in the 1830's and in California in the 1880's. There are more than 200 varieties grown here. India produced almost all the 1000 varieties. It yielded about 8,000,000 tonnes of mangoes in 2000-01. Now you know how could I eat so many fruits.
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