The Ingredient Library · A family shelf
Fruit
The ripe, seed-bearing part of a plant, sweet or savoury, including those the kitchen treats as vegetables.
What belongs here Tomato, lemon and the citrus family, stone fruit, berries, olives as fruit, figs and grapes.
2 profiles on this shelf
Fruit,
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Fruit
Lemon
Citrus × limon
The kitchen's sharpest tool: juice for acidity, zest for perfume, and the fruit that finishes fish, vegetables and almost everything else.
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Fruit
Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Botanically a fruit and treated as a vegetable in the kitchen: sweet, sharp and savoury at once, and the backbone of the Italian table.
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