A selection of
Alaskan wild berries from Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. This selection of
woodland berries, including
raspberries and
blueberries are actually
false berries. The common use of the word berry, simply refers to any small, sweet, fleshy fruit. The
botanical use of the word is based on which part of the plant's
ovary develop into the fruit.
A path of shelled pecans makes its way through a host of unshelled ones. Pecans can be eaten fresh or used in
cooking, particularly in sweet
desserts, such as the
pecan pie, a traditional
southern U.S. recipe. Pecans are also a major ingredient in
praline candy. The U.S. produces between 80% and 95% of the world's pecans, with an annual crop of 150–200 million kg (300–400 million pounds).
The Common Hazel is a
shrub native to
Europe and
Asia. Its
flowers are produced very early in spring before the leaves, and are
monoecious. The
seed is a
nut, known as a hazelnut or cobnut. The nut falls out of the husk when ripe, about 7-8 months after pollination. The
kernel of the
seed is edible and used raw or roasted, or ground into a paste.
The apricot (Prunus armeniaca) is a
fruit-bearing
tree native to
China. It is related to the
plum, and classified with it in the
subgenusPrunus of the genus Prunus. The fruit (pictured here) appears similar to a
peach or
nectarine, with a colour ranging from
yellow to
orange and sometimes a
red cast; its surface is smooth and nearly hairless. Apricots are
stone fruit (
drupes), and have only one
seed each, often called a "stone".
The plum is a
stone-fruittree in the genus Prunus. Its fruit is sweet, juicy and edible, and it can be eaten fresh, or dried, in which case they are known as prunes.
A whole and a cut lemon. Lemons are used primarily for their
juice, though the
pulp and
rind (
zest) are also used, primarily in cooking or mixing. Lemon juice is about 5%
citric acid, which gives lemons a
sour taste and a
pH of 2 to 3. This
acidity makes lemon juice a cheap, readily available acid for use in educational
chemistry experiments.
Candy apples (also known as toffee apples outside North America) are whole apples covered in a sugar
candy coating, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts, with a stick inserted as a handle. These are a common treat at autumn festivals in
Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere, such as
Halloween, because these festivals occur in the wake of annual apple harvests. According to one source, candy apples were invented by
Newark candy maker William W. Kolb in 1908 while experimenting in his candy shop with red cinnamon candy for the Christmas trade. This photograph shows a candy apple coated with red caramel and covered in chopped peanuts.
Grapefruit is the
citrus fruit of the grapefruit tree (Citrus
× paradisi), an 18th-century
hybrid first bred in
Barbados. The fruit is yellow-orange skinned and largely an
oblate spheroid; it grows to about 10–15 cm (4–6 in) in diameter. The flesh is segmented and
acidic, varying in color depending on the
cultivars, which include white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness (Ruby Red variety shown here).
Kushari is an
Egyptian dish made with a mixture of
rice,
macaroni, and
lentils, which is topped with a spiced tomato sauce and garlic vinegar and garnished with
chickpeas and crispy
fried onions. A sprinkling of
garlic juice, or garlic vinegar, and hot sauce are optional. Originally made in the 19th century, the dish draws influence from
Indian and
Italian cuisine.
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels is an oil-on-wood painting by the Dutch artist
Clara Peeters, dated around 1615. Peeters specialised in
still life pictures featuring beautiful objects, delicious fruits and expensive food. This type of still life is called banketje (banquet) in Dutch. In addition to the objects named in the title there are also curls of butter, figs and a bread roll. In the background is a gold-plated
Venetian glass. The almonds and figs are lying in a dish of Chinese
Wanli porcelain. The painting is in the permanent collection of the
Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.
Aisles of packaged food in a
Fred Meyerhypermarket in
Portland, Oregon. A hypermarket is a combination of a
supermarket and a
department store, and the Fred Meyer chain is one of the pioneers of the hypermarket format in the United States.
Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer, is the top grocery retailer and the third largest general retailer in the country.
A
Russetpotato and the cross-section of another. Potatoes are the world's fourth-largest food
crop. They originated in the area of present-day southern
Peru and were
domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago. The Russet is the most commonly grown
cultivar in the United States and Canada.
A
collage of six mustard images: Seeds of the
mustard plant (top left) may be ground (top right) to make different kinds of mustard. The four mustards pictured are a simple table mustard with
turmeric coloring (center left), a Bavarian sweet mustard (center right), a Dijon mustard (lower left), and a rough French mustard made mainly from black mustard seeds (lower right).
A
smokedAtlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus). The smoking of fish was originally performed as a method of
food preservation that would keep fish edible for more than a year. Recently, the availability of refrigeration and freezing has changed the primary purpose of smoking to enhancing the flavour of the fish.