Ngeyo Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

Passion fruit is round and about 3 inches long. It has a thick, waxy rind that becomes wrinkly as the fruit ripens. Inside passion fruit are sacs that are filled with orange-colored juice and small, crunchy seeds. This juice mixture is known as pulp.

is an export cultivar of banana

Strawberries are bright red, juicy, and sweet. They’re an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese and also contain decent amounts of folate (vitamin B9) and potassium. Strawberries are very rich in antioxidants and plant compounds, which may have benefits for heart health and blood sugar control ( 1 , 2 ).

Papaya is a tropical fruit, having oval or pear shape, measuring between 10 and 20cm and usually weighing between 500 and 1,000g, although it may even weigh up to 5kg. It is a berry of thin skin, of a green yellowish and orange colour. The pulp is of a red orange or yellow colour, sweet and very juicy.

The mango fruit is roughly oval in shape, with uneven sides. The fruit is a drupe, with an outer flesh surrounding a stone. The flesh is soft and bright yellow-orange in color.

The mandarin is a fruit similar to the orange but smaller and flattened in its base. Its rd is smooth, shining red orange-coloured and very easy to peel, even with the hands. The mandarin is consumed mainly as fresh fruit, although there are also tinned mandarin gores.

Avocados are high in fat. But it’s monounsaturated fat, which is a “good” fat that helps lower bad cholesterol, as long as you eat them in moderation.

Red Delicious has a sweet but very mild flavor, somewhat reminscent of slightly over-ripe melon. The flesh is juicy and has a light crispness. The skin can be quite tough. 

the edible starchy tuberous root of various plants (genus Dioscorea of the family Dioscoreaceae) used as a staple food in tropical areas

They are usually red, scarlet, or yellow, though green and purple varieties do exist, and they vary in shape from almost spherical to oval and elongate to pear-shaped. Each fruit contains at least two cells of small seeds surrounded by jellylike pulp.

The radish belongs to the Cruciferae family and its scientific name is Raphanus sativus L. It is an annual or biennial plant. It has a thick, fleshy root, varying in shape and size, of a red, white pink or dark brown skin or tinged with multiple colours. Its taste is more or less pungent.

The Gros Michel, also known as Big Mike, was the first type of banana to be cultivated on a large scale. It has a sweeter taste and creamier texture than the banana you know and love.

A pea is a most commonly green, occasionally golden yellow, or infrequently purple pod-shaped vegetable, widely grown as a cool-season vegetable crop. The seeds may be planted as soon as the soil temperature reaches 10 °C (50 °F), with the plants growing best at temperatures of 13 to 18 °C (55 to 64 °F).

Chili peppers are usually red or green colored chili pepper that may vary in size, shape, flavour, colour, and hotness. They are the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

Red pepper is the dried, ripened fruit pod from pungent (hot) varieties of the Capsicum species. It is sometimes referred to as Cayenne pepper, having been named after the high heat chilies grown in the vicinity of the Cayenne River in French Guiana.

White onion or Allium cepa (“sweet onion”) are a cultivar of dry onion which have a distinct light and mild flavour profile. Much like red onions, they have a high sugar and low sulphur content, and thus have a relatively short shelf life.

Cassava is a perennial plant with conspicuous, almost palmate (fan-shaped) leaves resembling those of the related castor-oil plant but more deeply parted into five to nine lobes. The fleshy roots are reminiscent of dahlia tubers. Different varieties range from low herbs to branching shrubs and slender unbranched trees.

carrot, (Daucus carota), herbaceous, generally biennial plant of the Apiaceae family that produces an edible taproot. Among common varieties root shapes range from globular to long, with lower ends blunt to pointed. Besides the orange-coloured roots, white-, yellow-, and purple-fleshed varieties are known.

Lettuce, Lactuca sativa, is a leafy herbaceous annual or biennial plant in the family Asteraceae grown for its leaves which are used as a salad green. The lettuce plant can vary greatly in size, shape and leaf type but generally, the leaves of the plant form a dense head or loose rosette.

Cucumber is a summer vegetable, with elongate shape and 15cm long. Its skin is of a green colour, turning into yellow in maturation. At present, it is found in the European markets all over the year. Fresh or pickled cucumbers are also available.

Celery is a vegetable with long petioles, meaty and succulent that are known by the name of stalks. They may be eaten raw in salads or alone, fried, boiled, with sauces and as a condiment for soups, stews, etc. It can also be used as an aromatic and besides the stalks, the leaves and seeds of the plant are used.

Cauliflowers are annual plants that reach about 0.5 metre (1.5 feet) tall and bear large rounded leaves that resemble collards (Brassica oleracea, variety acephala). As desired for food, the terminal cluster forms a firm, succulent “curd,” or head, that is an immature inflorescence (cluster of flowers).

ll forms of cabbage have succulent leaves that are free of hairs and covered with a waxy coating, which often gives the leaf surface a gray-green or blue-green colour. The plants grow best in mild to cool climates and tolerate frost; some forms tolerate hard freezing at certain periods of growth.

The red cabbage, also called purple cabbage, is an edible cabbage of a highly appreciated slightly sweet taste, characterized by the beautiful purple, magenta or dark purple colour of its leaves. This variety is bred from the common cabbage cultivated all over Europe and found all the year round.

Green bananas are firmer than yellow bananas. Their texture has sometimes been described as waxy. Composition. Green bananas are higher in starches. As bananas ripen and turn yellow, the starches transform into sugars.

Amaranths are branching broad-leaved plants with egg-shaped or rhombic leaves which may be smooth or covered in tiny hairs. The leaves have prominent veins, can be green or red in color and have long petioles. The plants produce single flowers on terminal spikes which typically red to purple in color.