Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables

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1. This vegetable is a mustard-flavored green that originated in the Mediterranean area. It's bitter flavor can add zest to a salad. What is it? Pennel Bargonia Cargalia Arugula

2. This vegetable consists of smooth white stalks with soft, pale green leaves. This Chinese favorite is crunchy, mild, and juicy. Mu Gu Chok Baked Foy Chok Fu Magar Bok Choy

3. 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? Daikon Radish Shangtu Radish Saiko Radish Pariental Radish

4. 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? Calugilea Fennel Caesar's Celery Bennoit

5. 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? Ivory Apples Palm Apples Palm Insides Hearts of Palm

6. This vegetable is a crunchy, juicy, somewhat sweet root from Mexico that's perfect with dips. What is it? Tihuana Root Quetzaloats Mazcos Jicama

7. This vegetable is crisp, light, and crunchy. This round root-like vegetable from Asia has a radish flavor. Most are light green in color some are purple. What is it? Aribea Kohlrabi Radiceap Paribeani

8. This vegetable is a red-leafed chicory from Italy which adds a bittersweet flavor to a salad bowl. What is it? Coraligula Fennel Clementines Radicchio

9. 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? Carambola Cherembola Genola Peralchea

10. 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? Germola Cherimoya Bahamian Apples Mandaloria

11. 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? Clementine Mango Kiwi Carola

12. This golden-orange, small round fruit mainly comes from Japan or China. It may be eaten whole just as a grape is eaten. What is it? Kumquat Bluskas Maona Grapes Qoewayer

13. This is a tropical fruit grown in Hawaii that is very digestable. When ripe the skin is yellow-green. The center cavity is made up of black-gray seeds. What is it? Papaya Hunokanda Japlay Yawahatzee

14. 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? Passion Fruit Juicy Fruit Moon Fruit Love Fruit

15. 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? Nasti Delicious Ugli Tasty