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Fruits and Vegetables (Week 10 Lecture 14) Flashcards

1
Q

______ family provided edible flesh & seeds rich in sulfur-containing amino acids

A

Cucurbitaceae

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2
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Cucurbitaceae fruit is known to ______.

A

Pepo

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3
Q

What are exampls of pepo fruit?

A

Cucumber, squah, zuchinni, pumpkin

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4
Q

What is the most important fruit vegetable crop in the US.

A

Tomato

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5
Q

What family do eggplants, tomatoes and peppers belong too?

A

Solanaceae

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6
Q

Green fruits contain ______, yellow orange fruits contain ______, red/purple fruits contain ______, and white fruits contain ______.

A

chlorophyll
carotenoids
anthocyanins
flavones

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7
Q

What fruit is most widely cultivated?

A

Grape

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8
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What fruit crop was important for oil in mediterranean people for 5000 years?

A

olives

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9
Q

True or False: Only 1 or 2 % of world’s olive crop eaten as fruit

A

True

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10
Q

What family does the kiwi (cashew, mango) belong too?

A

Anacardiaceae, native to Asia

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11
Q

The ______ family consists of apples, pears, plums, peaches, strawberries, rose, blackberries.

A

Rosaceae

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12
Q

What are the 4 subfamilies of the Rosaceae.

A

Divided into 4 subfamilies
• Spiraeoideae
• Maloideae - Malus (apple), Pyrus (pears) – pome producers
• Amygdaloideae - Prunus (plums, peaches, cherries, apricots)– drupe producers
• Rosoideae - Rosa (roses), Fragaria (strawberry), Rubus (blackberries & raspberries) – aggregate fruit producers

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13
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What is the most important temperate fruit tree crop in the world and native too?

A

Apple, central asia

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14
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True or False: Nectarines are mutants of prunes?

A

True

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15
Q

______ are a particular variety which are dried plums

and Propagation is by grafting

A

Prunes

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16
Q

What are the berries of the rosaceae?

A

strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, boysenberries and loganberries

17
Q

What family do blueberries and cranberries belong too?

A

Ericaceae

18
Q

What is the walnut family?

A

Juglandaceae

19
Q

Characteristic of fruits in tropical regions.

A

• Many more kinds of edible fruits than in temperate regions
Commercially second behind temperate fruits
Higher perishability than temperate fruits
Most gathered from wild or cultivated on limited scale and consumed locally
Exceptions include: bananas, pineapples, and avocados

20
Q

What family is the most widely grown fruit in the world?

A

Rutaceae (citrus)

21
Q

What are the three main classes of hybrid of sweet oranges?

A

Bloods, normals, navels

22
Q

What family does the pineapple belong too?

A

Bromeliaceae

23
Q

True or False: Pineapples are Pressed for juice that contains bromelain that prevents use in gelatin and milk and used as a meat tenderizer

A

True

24
Q

What family do bannanas belong too?

A

Musaceae

25
Q

True or False: Common cultivars are sterile triploids.

A

True

26
Q

True or False: Domestication of modern edible banana is a result of hybridization and polyploidy of M. acuminata and M.balbisiana

A

True

27
Q

Waht fruit has more calories then other fruits?

A

Avacado

28
Q

What family does the avocado belong too?

A

Lauraceae

29
Q

What are the three varieties of avocados/

A

– West Indian - primarily grown in California; 30% oil in mesocarp
– Guatemalan
– Mexican

30
Q

What is the most popular fruit based on tropical fruits.

A

Mango

31
Q

What type of fruit is a mango and cashew?

A

Drupe

32
Q

Cashew contains ______ (an allergen that may cause dermatitis in hypersensitive people), but only in pericarp not in seed.

A

urushiol

33
Q

What fruit has one of the largest seeds known?

A

Coconut

34
Q

what are 4 examples of other tropical fruits?

A
  • Carica papaya – papaya
  • Artocarpus altilis – breadfruit
  • Passiflora edulis – passion fruit
  • Psidium guajava – guava
35
Q

what family does the coconut belong too?

A

Arecaceae

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