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Spectrum Chart - 677 : Tropical Fruits
1. Amla – Amla fruit is almost spherical
in shape, light-greenish yellow in colour and appears to be very
hard. Its taste is sour and bitter. It is one of the richest known
sources of vitamin 'C'. It is considered to be a good remedy against
heart diseases. It serves to tone all the vital organs of the body
and builds health by eradicating the harmful disease-causing elements
from the body.
2. Banana - Banana are usually long and
curved with a soft inside covered by a yellow skin. Bananas have a
lot of vitamin B6, vitamin C and potassium. Bananas have high
nutritional value and are a healthy snack.
3. Mango - Mango is often termed as “The
king of the fruits." Langra, Dussheri, Chausa, Tota, Safadi,
Alphonso are types of mangoes which are generally found in of India.
Mango fruit is an excellent source of Vitamin-A.
4. Custard Apple - Custard apple, also
known as chermoyas are native to South America, West Indies and some
parts of Asia. The fruit is soft and chewy with a hard exterior. The
flesh is white in colour and has a creamy texture.
5. Chikoo - Chikoo is brown coloured round
shaped fruit. It composes of soft, easily digestible pulp made of
simple sugars like fructose and sucrose. Fresh ripe chikoo is a good
source of minerals like potassium, copper, iron and vitamins like
folate, niacin and pantothenic acid.
6. Coconut - Coconut is a mature fruit of
the coconut palm. Coconut is a complete food rich in calories,
vitamins, and minerals. Coconut oil extracted from dry kernel (copra)
is an excellent emollient agent.
7. Papaya - Papaya fruit is sweet with a
musky flavor. Along with these, it contains varieties of nutrients
that make it very healthy food. It posses the capacity to protect
from inflammation and cancer.
8. Guava - Guava belongs to the myrtle
family. It is a tropical fruit. Guava is low in calories and fats but
carry several vital vitamins, minerals and flavonoid compounds that
play a pivotal role in the prevention of cancers, ageing, infections,
etc.
9. Carambola - Carambola also known as
star fruit are tropical fruits. The skin is thin, smooth and waxy and
turns a light to dark yellow when ripe. The flesh is light yellow to
yellow in colour. Carambola is rich in antioxidants, potassium &
vitamin C & low in sugar, sodium & acid.
10. Orange - Orange fruit belongs to citrus
family. Orange fruit contains an impressive list of essential
nutrients, vitamins, minerals for normal growth and development and
overall well-being. Oranges, like other citrus fruits, are an
excellent source of vitamin C.
11. Grapes - Grapes are the fruit of a
woody grape vine. Grapes can be eaten raw or used for making wine,
juice and jelly/jam. Grapes come in different colours red, purple,
white and green are some examples.
12. Fig - Fig is a soft, sweet fruit. Its
skin is very thin and has many small seeds inside of it. Dried figs
are an excellent source of minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants. In
fact, dried figs possess higher concentrations of energy, minerals
and vitamins.
13. Lychee - Lychee are sweet delicious &
juicy fruit. The inside of a lychee is a clear, pinkish-white colour.
The outside of the fruit is a hard spiky shell. Its seed is brown
in colour and very hard. Litchi also carries a very good amount of
minerals like potassium and copper.
14. Passion Fruit - Passion fruit is a
pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at
maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous
seeds. The fruit is both eaten and juiced passion fruit juice is
often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.
15. Cashew - Cashew fruit is a soft fruit,
rich in nutrients and contains five times more vitamin C than an
orange. It can be eaten fresh, cooked in curries, the fruit is
completely edible and has a mixed blend of sour and sweet taste.
16. Water Apple - Rose Apple or Water Apple
is a bell-shaped fruit, about 5 to 8 cm long. The fruit is pink to
red in colour with white texture flesh. The fruit possess rich amount
of iron, calcium, fiber, Vitamin C, protein and Vitamin A.
17. Pomegranate - Pomegranate is a thick
skinned super seedy fruit, it contains hundreds of edible seeds
called arils. They are rich in fibre, vitamins, minerals and
bioactive plant compounds, but they also contain some sugar.
18. Lemon - Lemon fruits are small, green
citrus fruits of round/oval shape, which turn yellow on ripening. It
is a versatile fruit with a sweet and sour taste. This fruit is
widely consumed in the form of drinks, jams, pickles, candies, snacks
etc.
19. Jackfruit - Jackfruit comes from
mulberry family. It has thorny projections outside and soft flesh
inside which is intensely sweet and delicious in taste. Jackfruit is
a good source of calorie but contains no cholesterol or saturated
fats. It is rich in vitamins and minerals.
20. Dragon Fruit - Pitaya commonly known as
the dragon fruit, is a fruit from Central America, South America and
Asia. Dragon fruits have pink skin and white or red flesh with an
abundance of small black edible seeds. The flavor is mildly sweet.
21. Muskmelon - Muskmelon are a type of
melon. Muskmelon have a super high percentage of water content in
them making them cooling and hydrating fruit. Muskmelon has a
soothing effect on the digestive system and helps it function
optimally.
22. Pineapple - Pineapple is a tropical
plant with edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries,
also called pineapples.Fresh pineapple is low in calories.Fresh
pineapple is an excellent source of antioxidant vitamin.
23. Watermelon - A watermelon is a type of
edible fruit. They are 92% water. About six percent of a watermelon
is sugar. Watermelons are a great source of vitamin A, vitamin C,
vitamin B6 and vitamin B1. They also contain potassium &
magnesium.
24. Grapefruit - Grapefruit is oblate in
shape, it has thick, tough skin. Inside, the fruit is segmented into
arils as in other citrus fruits. Its arils are very juicy, acidic and
varying in colour, which could be white, pink or red due to varying
sweetness.
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