FND 100 Fruits and Vegetables Flashcards
What are Canada’s Dietary Guidelines for fruit and vegetables?
Should be consumed regularly and can be fresh, frozen, canned, or dried
Recommendations of number of servings of fruit and veggies
7-10 servings
Examples of fruit or veggies servings
Juice box can be counted as 2 servings
One medium sized fruit or vegetable
Half a cup of fresh or frozen or canned product
One cup of salad, half a cup of coked leafy veggies
Half a cup of 100% juice
What supplies the majority of the human food supply
Plant tissues
How many plant species are important in world trace
100-200 species
How many species are responsible for the bulk of food crops
14 species
14 species responsible for bulk of food crops include
Rice
Wheat
Sorghum
Barely
Sugar cane
Sugar beets
Potato/ sweet potato
Cassava
Beans/legumes
Soybean
Peanuts
Coconuts
Banana
What is a fruit?
A fruit is the mature ovary of a flower include the seeds
Types of fruit
Simple
Aggregate
Multiple fruit
What is simple fruit?
Single ovary in one flower
Categories of simple fruit
Pomes and drupes
Pomes
Apples, pears, citrus
Drupes
Peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, etc.
What is the core of an apple called?
The carpal and is made up of the remains of the structure of the flower
What is the pericarp?
The flesh of the fruit
What is an apple classified as?
A pome because it contains 5 encapsulated seeds within the core line
Other categories of simple fruits
Pepo
Drupe
Legume
Pome
Citrus
What are pepos?
Members of the squash family. Cucumber, squash, pumpkin
Certain legumes or seed pods
What is a pith?
The white bit that we pick off the oranges called the asbedo
What is the asbedo the source of?
The majority of the pectins we use in our jam making. Comes from the pith of the citrus
What does citrus include?
Oranges, lemons, limes, pomelos
What is the flavedo?
Outer rind that is where all the flavour and aromatics come from
What is aggregate fruit?
Single flower with multiple stamens or ovaries
Examples of aggregate fruit
Soft fleshed berries
Not blueberries but raspberries, blackberries
Aggregate contributes to clusters of juice
What are secondary cell walls composed of?
Lingand which contributes to a woody texture (example includes the very bottom portion of stalks of asparagus)
Where else do you find lignin
At the bottom of your stalk of broccoli (very though and typically discarded)
Lignin vs cellulose or hemicellulose
Very rich in dietary fiber that is very different from cellulose and hemicellulose
What are pectins
Another type of polysaccharide in fruits and veggies they cement (hold) cells together
What are pectins key to?
To jam and jelly making and tend to be at higher levels in unripened fruit
Best examples of multiple fruit
Pineapples and figs (multiple fruit from multiple flowers)
What happens to the sugar and starch as fruit matures or ripens?
The sugar content increase and starch content decreases and they become a little softer which is related to the soft content turning into sugars due to the metabolism of the content
What happens as a veggie matures
Starch content increases and sugar content decreases
Categories of veggies
Bulbs roots, tubbers, leaves stems, fruits, seeds
Bulbs
Garlic
Leeks
Onions
Shallots
Root
Beets
Carrots
Radishes
Parsnips
Rutabaga
Turnips
Daikon
Celeriac
Tubers
White potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Jerusalem artichoke
Jicama
What other edible form of plant do they include?
Roots
Tubers
Stems
Leaves
Pods and seeds