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.
We apricots belong to a group called stone fruits because we have a tough, inedible seed in our centre. We grow on splendid trees that can reach 7 metres in height, they look like opened umbrellas when fully mature.
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
Firstly, we're cultivated berries. We're roundish, about the size of a marble, with smooth skin covered in a fine, white powder or ‘bloom'
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're juicy citrus fruit with a slightly sour, but pleasant, taste. We're almost round, often with a flat bottom and a slightly tapering neck. We're normally, thin-skinned and yellow, but some of us do come in red and red-blushed colours.
We have smooth, white or yellow skin with pale green to green flesh. We're about 15-20cm in diameter, and round to oval in shape. Our flesh, contained by the thin, firm skin or rind, is moist, sweet and succulent with seeds in the centre.
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 may be small but we pack a punch in the flavour and nutrition stakes. You see we have the ability to bring out the flavour of other foods, as well as tasting great ourselves.
We have been cultivated as long ago as 1700 BC in China. We're usually round or slightly egg-shaped, the size of a walnut shell, pink to reddish-brown in colour, with a textured skin.
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 a smooth-skinned fruit with a beautiful, sensuous feel and sweet aroma. Our shape and size can vary considerably, as well as our flavour and colour.
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.
We're stone fruit and are related to peaches, cherries, plums and loquats. We grow on trees and are a bit like peaches without the fuzz. Our smooth skin is red in colour on a yellow to pale yellow background whilst our flesh can vary from almost white, yellow to almost red.
Oranges are available all year round. We're the best-known citrus fruit and are related to mandarins, lemons, grapefruit, limes and citrons.
We have soft, fuzzy skin which is red on a yellow to pale yellow background. Our flesh can vary from almost white, yellow to almost red.
We're available most of the year and our skin is slightly rough, yellowish when ripe, and encloses a crisp, juicy, white flesh.
I'm a pineapple from sunny Queensland. Although we look like a rough, spiky, pine cone we're really a group of smaller fruits that have fused together around a central core, that contain juicy, slightly fibrous segments
We're stone fruits, with a range of pink to purple skin colours. Our flesh is also multi-coloured from yellow, creamy-white to blood red.
We consist of a collection of tiny fruits, each with its own seed covered in red skin and flesh, which form a helmet-shaped cluster around a small stem. When harvested the cluster comes away from the stem leaving a hollow in the centre.
We’re usually round or slightly elongated with firm, netted or scaly, greyish-green, cream or buff rind. Our flesh surrounds seeds in the centre.
Now there are other berries in this world but admit it, we’re the best – sweet, succulent, easy to eat – no other berry is as good as us. It’s true that we’re similar to raspberries and blackberries.
We’re synonymous with long, hot summers and lazy days at the beach. We belong to the melon family and can be round, soccer ball-size or an elongated, egg shape with smooth, hard, thick, green or yellow skin or rind.
I'm a vegetable that grows underground and I have prickly leaves thatare grey-green to bronze-green in colour, often with a purplish tinge.
My family were given the title ‘king of vegetables' by the ancient Egyptians. Throughout the ages we've become the symbol of good taste in food.
We're actually very tasty and so nutritious no one can afford to exclude us from their diet. We grow on rounded bushes (bush beans) which support themselves or on climbing plants.
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 capsicums are closely related to hot chillies, but we're sweeter tasting and not at all hot to eat. Most of us are glossy, smooth-skinned, and blocky.
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're related to the melons, pumpkins and squash but we have our individual style. We're usually torpedo-shaped with green to dark green or white skin surrounding a whitish edible pulp containing seeds.
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.
We don't just make food taste great, we're really good for you too. It's said that we have the powers to keep you strong and healthy.
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've been enjoyed for thousands of years. One of the world's most popular salad vegetables, we come in many shapes, sizes and colours. There are four main types in Australia, all of which are widely grown.
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 have a long and distinguished history. If left to mature on the tree we turn dark purple to black. Inside we have a large, egg-shaped seed with pointed sharp ends. Our meaty flesh is inedible until properly pickled.
We're a bulb formed from the bases of our leaves. The most common being round to oval-shaped and slightly smaller than a tennis ball.
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.
Peas to meet you! We grow on a climbing plant that produces pods containing seeds or peas. We're sold in the pod and either eaten whole or we're removed from the inedible pod before eating.
We're a close relative of tomatoes, eggplants, and capsicums. Our skin colour varies from creamy-to-white, yellow, red to even purple.
We're normally hard-shelled and come in many different shapes and sizes. Our flesh is usually yellowish-orange, firm, moist and at our centre is a mass of flat seeds.
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 a vegetable and part of a large family related to pumpkins, cucumbers and melons. We come in all sizes, shapes and colours, which makes us a very interesting family of vegetables.
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
Corn, also called maize, is one of the world's major cereal crops and we're used as flour to make bread, to produce breakfast cereal, to make popcorn and, of course, sweet corn is grown and sold as a vegetable.
Yes, we're a fruit all right but everyone thinks we're a vegetable because we're used in savoury dishes. We have glossy, thin, smooth skin, with a juicy flesh containing numerous soft, edible seeds.
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.
We’re soft, thin-skinned and sausage-shaped with rounded ends. Our skin colours range from almost black, dark green, pale green, pale green with grey, and yellow.
