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ACKEE - grows on trees and is found all over Jamaica. It's very poisonous when unripe, when ripe, the fruit splits to show three large black seeds. Yellowish flesh, when cooked resembles scrambled eggs.
ALMONDS - Almond tree shot in Tobago
AUBERGINE - usually known as egg plant, garden egg or melongene.
BREADFRUIT - a large rough skinned vegetable which grows on trees and can weigh up to 4 lb. It is one of the staple foods of the islands.
CALLALOO - the leaves of the edoe, a green vegetable not unlike spinach.
CASSAVA - a thin root containing prussic acid which must be grated, boiled or roasted to extract the poison. It then becomes a flour when ground and makes cassava bread and other various dishes including farine.
CERIS - Fruit
CHOCHO/CHRISTOPHENE - sometimes spelt christophine, a pear-shaped member of the melon family with pale green skin and flesh which tastes something like marrow.
COCO/EDDOE - a hairy root about the size of a large potato and not unlike in taste.
COFFEE - Coffee beans
DATE PALM - Fruit
GREEN FIG - Vegetable - Similar to plantain and needs to be cooked - part of the banana family.
DAMSEL - fruit
Okra/OCHRA - a spear shaped green pod filled with glutinous seeds. When large it is too fibrous to eat. The basis of gumbo dishes and eaten with rice by the islanders.
PIGEON PEAS - also known as gungo peas used widely in Carriacou and Grenada. What is called 'pea' in Jamaica is a red or kidney bean.
PLANTAIN - like a large banana, but must be cooked.
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PUMPKIN - often called by the American name, squash.
SORREL - the fruit sepals can be used to make a drinks. Sorrel is available in red and white sepals.
SUGAR CANE - processed to make sugar we all know and love!
SCOTCH BONNET PEPPER - Also known as seasoning pepper in parts of the Caribbean - very hot.
TANNIA - similar to eddoe.
YAM - a brown hairy root like a potato.
LAKATAN - Banana family, similar to Plantains. Vegetable.
AVOCADO - green or purple skinned fruit.
BANANA - often called 'fig', especially the small variety. Fig bluggoes, rust skinned, are for cooking.
CASHEW NUT - kidney-shaped fruit, yellow or red when ripe. The juice is used for jelly or soft drinks and the kernel yields cashew nuts.
COCONUT - used unripe )green) and ripe (brown). The white meat of the ripe coconut is used grated, toasted or flaked and the milk made into cream. Green coconuts cintain jelly and water.
CUSTARD APPLE - a brown fruit with sweet moist pulp, cream coloured like custard.
GRAPEFRUIT - the same as the European citrus.
GINEP/CHENNUB - small green fruit with apricot-coloured flesh and one large stone.
GUAVA - small yellow-skinned fruit with pink or yellow flesh and many seeds. It can be eaten raw, stewed or made into jelly or 'cheese', a paste, usually cut into squares.
LEMON - very similar to European citrus, but often rough skinned.
LIME - smooth-skinned citrus, smaller than a lemon.
MANGO - grows on large trees, a fruit with greenish-yellow skin, very sweet tasting apricot-coloured pulp and a large stone. Smaller types are stringy but larger varieties. Julies and Bombays are smooth and delicate. Unripe, they can be used for chutney.
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MELON - both cantaloup and pink-fleshed water melon.
COCOA BEAN - Fruit, used to make chocolate!
NONI - Sour fruit
PAPAYA/PAWPAW - varies in size and flavour. Skin is greenish or yellow when very ripe, flesh apricot-coloured and delicate, centre filled with peppery black seeds. The pulp contains pepsin and the skin and seeds are useful as meat tenderisers. When unripe, it can be used as a vegetable.
PINEAPPLE - various sizes, plentiful on some islands.
SAPODILLA/NASBERRY - fruit about the size of a large plum, brown skinned with sweet, yellowish flesh and several large flat black seeds.
SOURSOP - a large green skinned fruit covered in soft spines. The rather acid white flesh has many black shiny seeds in the centre. Sieved, it makes a creamy drink or ice cream.
STAR APPLE - a purple-skinned fruit which must be picked and rippened off the tree. The white flesh is rather tasteless and the pips are arranged in star formation.
SUGAR APPLE/SWEETSOP - has a skin covered with rubbery scales, often with a bloom on them. The flesh is creamy and sweet.
TAMARIND - Fruit. Click here to try our Tamarind BBQ Sauce
TANGERINE - large and sweet on some islands.
UGLI FRUIT - a large citrus, uneven and thick skinned not unlike a grapefruit when peeled.
What else can I help you with?
Mineral products exported from the Caribbean?
minerals product exported from the Caribbean are vegetable and fruit minerals from the Bahamas are salt animals products,rum and chemical
Is a pair a fruit or a vegetable?
A pair is a fruit, not a vegetable
Is apple a fruit or vegetable?
An apple is a fruit, not a vegetable.
Is asparagus a fruit or vegetable?
Asparagus is a vegetable, not a fruit.
Is cauliflower a root or a fruit or a leaf?
no a colliflower is not a fruit, it is a vegetable!!! No
Is tomato not a fruit and a vegetable?
tomato is not a vegetable, its a fruit because fruit has seed
Is a winter melon a fruit or a vegetable?
It is a fruit but eaten as a vegetable
Is tomatoes vegetable or fruit?
It is a fruit on the vine and a vegetable on your plate
Is zuchnni a fruit or a vegetable?
It is a fruit, for culinary purposes it is a vegetable
What is the exocarp of a fruit or vegetable?
Outter skin is a fruit or vegetable
What vegetable and fruit with a?
An apricot is a fruit and a avocado is a vegetable or an aubergine
What is an mustard an fruit or an vegetable?
Mustard is not a fruit or vegetable, it is a condiment.
