We’re one of the most popular fruits in the world! We grow on a lovely tree with spreading branches covered with pretty white blossoms from which apples grow once the flowers have been pollinated by insects.
To begin with, I’m a fruit but I’m eaten like a vegetable. We originated in Mexico and Central America but we’re grown all around the globe.
Did you know we come in green and red colours too? We can be as short as 15cm or as long as 25cm
Did you know that some grape vine root stocks have been found in China that date back to before the great ice age? We grow in bunches, which can be like a pyramid, round or long and thin.
We were given the name kiwifruit by New Zealand growers and this is the name we're known by in Australia. We're cylindrical and egg-shaped, about 8cm long, with reddish-brown skin which is covered in short hairs.
Our skin or rind is more or less rough, thick and dotted with oil glands and our flesh is very juicy and sour.
We're like small oranges which are flattened at the top and bottom. Our skin is a deep orange colour, soft, glossy, often smooth and it peels away easily from our flesh.
We're related to European pears, apples and quinces. We're more or less round in shape, slightly smaller than a tennis ball, with greenish-yellow skin which can be speckled with brown flecks.
Oranges are available all year round. We're the best-known citrus fruit and are related to mandarins, lemons, grapefruit, limes and citrons.
We're available most of the year and our skin is slightly rough, yellowish when ripe, and encloses a crisp, juicy, white flesh.
We come in many different types and have many different names depending on where we come from. We have white or green, thick, crunchy stems with light to dark green wide leaves. All parts of us are eaten.
I belong to the Brassica family and am closely related to the cabbage. My fellow broccoli heads and I can range in colour from dark green to purplish green.
If we're cooked well, then we're really great and so good for you. We're part of the brassica (cabbage) family and we grow on a tall stemmed plant that reaches about 1 metre in height and has cabbage-like leaves.
We're one of the most widely eaten foods on the Planet and everyone likes us, especially Bugs Bunny. We're grown for our taproots which form below the surface.
I'm a cousin of the cabbage family. We have roundish heads, which are creamy-white to pale cream in colour and look like a fluffy white cloud.
Sometimes called bunch celery we consist of a group of pale green, succulent stems with thick, white bases which are joined at the bottom of the stalks to a crown at ground level. Our stems are ‘U' shaped with slight furrows
We eggplants grow on a bush that produces variously shaped fruit over a long period of time. Our most common type is the glossy, smooth skinned, tear drop-shaped eggplant which has dark purplish satin-like skin.
I am a roundish, bulbous vegetable, about 8-12cm in diameter, with a mild licorice smell and taste. My large swollen base consists of several overlapping broad stems, forming a white to very pale green-white, firm, crisp bulb.
I'm the national emblem of Wales. Like other onions, we're part of the lily family, and we have a sweet, mild onion taste. We're a round, cylindrical vegetable with a slightly thickened, white base.
We're white cultivated mushrooms and our edible part is our fruiting body which produces spores. We're the most commonly sold mushroom and consist of an umbrella-like head.
We are related to carrot, celery and parsley, so we come from a distinguished family. We have a taproot similar to a carrot but with creamy-white skin and a green, leafy top.
We consist of small, medium to bright green, thick, soft, oval to arrow-shaped leaves and green stems, both of which are eaten. Our leaves form rose-like clusters or rosettes from which our flowering shoot emerges.
We're generally called sweet potatoes because of our delicious, sweet flavour and are not related to the potato at all. Our skin is smooth and can be white, red, golden or purple
We're a root vegetable related to radishes and mustards. We have a cylindrical, carrot or top-shape, with a flat top and a root that tapers to a point. We're available all year round with our peak being from May to October.
