Who can name the most different types of fruit? please list as many as you can.?

Question

please do not list different varieties of the same fruit. Apple is one-jonathon apple and grannysmith apple are differnt varieties of the same fruit.

Answer 1

whats fruit

Answer 2

The list above is quite informative, but don't forget that anything with a visible seed is considered fruit.  Beans, squash, tomatoes, etc are all technically fruit.

Answer 3

Apple - a global favourite fruit and a good source of vitamin C

Apricot - soft, sweet and juicy orange coloured fruit packed with beta-carotene.

Avocado - Fatty soft flesh and a large stone in a thin outer casing. These trees produce hundreds of fruits which taste buttery and rich.

Breadfruit- a single Malayan tree produces up to 200 or more grapefruit sized fruits each season. Breadfruit flesh can be roasted, baked or fried and the taste is like bread (hence the name).

Banana - yellow curved tropical fruit beloved the world over.

Blackberry - The fruit of the bramble bush which is a very common european wild bush, blackberries are also cultivated and blackberry jam is a british favourite. Picking blackberries is enjoyable, but the bush has sharp spines.

Blackcurrant - A european native currant also popular for jams.

Blueberry - A north American fruit high in antioxidants. The small bushes grow in acidic soils, producing hundreds of small blue fruits in early summer.

Cherimoya- or custard apple. A delicious south american fruit with a white flesh which does indeed taste of apples and custard. The seeds and skin are toxic.

Cherry - Related to both plums and apricots, the cherry tree produces small red fruits with a distinctive taste. Sweet and fragrant, cheeries are a midsummer treat.

Clementine - A sweet orange citrus fruit from the mandarin family. Clementines are much easier to peel than oranges.

Coconut - The fruit of the coconut palm is harvested throughout the tropical world for food, oil and Coir (the fibrous husk of the coconut).

Cranberry - American bog berry, high in vitamin C. An astringent taste makes it a great breakfast fruit.

Custard Apple - see Cherimoya

Durian - A thorn-covered outer layer reveals a strong smelling fruit that is most definitely an aquired taste.

Fig - The fruit we know of as the fig is actually the flower of the fig tree. Sweet and delicious

Grapefruit -

Grape - Clusters of green, yellow or red fruits grow on vines in many parts of the world. Eaten fresh or turned into wine, grapes are a very popular fruit.

Guava -

Jakfruit -

Kiwi - Green to brown skinned fruit with a hairy surface. Inside is a sharp but sweet flesh that goes equally well in a traditional sweet fruit salad as it does in a tomato salad.

Lemon - The king of citrus fruits and essential in meddeterranian cookery. Southern Italy is particularly famous for cooking with lemons.

Lime - Green relative of the lemon

Loganberry -

Mandarin - Relative of the satsuma

Mango - Tropical fruit

Mangosteen -

Melon -

Nectarine - A hairless form of peach that grows in slightly more nothern lattitudes than its more tender cousin.

Orange - Popular citrus with many varieties.

Papaya -

Peach -

Pear - A nothern european native, the pear is a wonderful fruit although not as popular as apples these days, largely due to shorter shelf life.

Persimmon - see Sharon Fruit

Pinapple - Very popular in the 17th Century when first imported into europe. Sir christopher Wren wanted to replace the ancient Gargoyles on the roof of St Georges Chappel in Windsor with a row of stone pineapples, but thankfully, wiser heads prevailed.

Plum -

Pomegranate -

Quince-

Satsuma -

Sharon Fruit (Persimmon) -

Strawberry -

Tamarillo -

Ugli Fruit -

Watermelon - A large melon with sweet and extreemely watery flesh. Very refreshing and sold on beaches to sunbathers throughout europe.