Search Results for 2017

Love-in-a-mist: Nigella damascena
17 Feb 2018

The small black seeds in the capules can be used as spices, they taste like a mixture of nutmeg and woodruff.

Cornelian cherry: Cornus mas
10 Apr 2018

Cornelian cherries taste sweet, but also quite astringent when picked and eaten fresh from trees or hedges.

Brown gram: Vigna mungo (seeds)
28 Sep 2017

Brown gram: Vigna mungo (seeds) Used since ancient times The small, dark Brown Grams have been cultivated in India for 3000 to 4000 years. They are cooked in a whole, halved (separate cotyledons) or sprouted. Dried and processed into flour,

Green Zebra (striped tomato): Solanum lycopersicum ‘Green Zebra’
26 Oct 2017

Contrary to the green colour, the Green Zebra tastes, like many other types of tomatoes, pleasantly sweet.

Elberta Girl Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Elberta Girl’
10 Aug 2018

The entire plant of the ‘Elberta Girl’ tomato cultivar is covered with a fine, silvery fluff. The leaves are somewhat curly, the fruits are flamed. They are not very sweet, the flesh is of a rather mealy-soft consistency.

Meyer lemon: Citrus × meyeri
27 Feb 2018

The smaller, thin-peeled fruits of Meyer lemon taste very intense and are not as sour as many other varieties. At the same time, they are very juicy.

Chasteberry: Vitex agnus-castus
10 Aug 2018

Fruits and leaves of “Monk’s pepper” work as spices. Especially the hot tasting fruits can be used as a pepper substitute.

Common medlar: Mespilus germanica
26 Oct 2017

The unique taste compensates for the painstaking production of jelly and compote.

Green Luobo Radish: Raphanus sativus subsp. niger ‘Green Luobo’
25 Mar 2020

Green Luobo can be eaten raw and when cut into thin slices is a decorative addition to a salad.

Amanatsu: Citrus natsudaidai
28 Sep 2017

The name “Amanatsu” means “Sweet Summer”. The sun-yellow fruit is about the size of an orange. In Japan iIt is eaten fresh or processed into jam, juice, ice cream, liqueur and wine.

Pheasant berry: Leycesteria formosa
28 Sep 2017

As soon as the small fruits of pheasant berry are ripe and therefore dark brown and soft, they taste intensely like slightly burnt (bitter) caramel.

Ligiri: Idesia polycarpa
07 Jun 2019

The Ligiri, native to East Asia, carries clusters of small berries that taste bitter and tangy. They can be eaten raw or cooked.

Urad bean: Vigna mungo (unripe pulses)
11 Oct 2017

In addition to the small, dark black grams, the immature, green pods are also edible as fruit vegetables.

Pinapple-Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Pinapple’
04 Oct 2018

Pineapple tomatoes are one of the largest and heaviest tomato varieties. Individual fruits can weigh over 1 kg.

Star-Ruby-Grapefruit: Citrus × paradisi ‚Star Ruby‘
26 Oct 2017

This red-fleshy variety with the reddish peel is very delicious!

Jelly Palm: Butia capitata
04 Oct 2018

The jelly palm has delicious orange fruits with a seed that looks and tastes like a mini coconut.

Beale’s barberry: Mahonia bealei
24 Jul 2018

Ripe fruits of Beale’s barberry are edible raw or cooked and a jam can be prepared. Dried berries give muesli a fruity note.

Sweet marjoram: Origanum majorana
11 Oct 2017

The whole herb is used with flowers and stems, both fresh and dried. It goes very well with potato dishes and legumes.

Chinese mint shrub: Elsholtzia stauntonii
02 Nov 2017

The leaves taste like a mixture of caraway, mint and lemon.

×Secalotricum
25 Jul 2018

×Secalotricum is a fertile hybrid of male wheat (Triticum) and female rye (Secale). This grain is also described in its baking properties as a mixture of both.

Oaxacan Green dent corn: Zea mays ssp. mays convar. indentata ‘Oaxacan Green’
01 Mar 2021

Oaxacan Green dent corn is an old, green maize variety with very large cobs that was cultivated by the Zapotec Indians of Mexico in the province of Oaxaca.

Pear lemon: Citrus × lumia ‘Pyriformis’
02 Nov 2017

The Pear lemon is a Lumia cultivar and therefore a hybrid of Pomelo, Lemon and Citron.

Fish mint: Houttuynia cordata
19 Nov 2018

The plant with the beautiful name “fish mint” has a quite unique, strong taste, which certainly not everyone likes.

San Marzano Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘San Marzano’
15 Apr 2020

The fruit ripens throughout the summer and into the autumn. It has a firm flesh and is mainly processed into tomato paste and canned food.

Jumbay (unripe fruits): Leucaena leucocephala
22 May 2019

The unripe legume of the Leadtree are particularly appreciated in Southeast Asian cuisine, although the plant originally comes from Central America.

Miracle Berry: Synsepalum dulcificum
19 Nov 2018

Miracle berry has a unique effect on our sense of taste: it superimposes taste impressions in a way that everything is perceived as being sweet.

Gezahnte tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Gezahnte Buhrer Keel’
22 Sep 2017

Beef tomatoes are mainly used for cooking, they can be filled and baked or used in stews and sauces. Tomatoes are even suitable for jams – alone or mixed with other fruits.

Striped bitter orange: Citrus × aurantium ‘Fasciata’ (ripe)
17 Feb 2018

The cross section shows that ripe fruits of this variety no longer contain fruit juice.

City-goosefoot: Oxybasis urbica
22 Sep 2017

The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked as leaf vegetables such as spinach. The black-brown seeds can be used as pseudocerals.

Blue-Cuties-Popcorn: Zea mays ssp. mays convar. everta ‘Blue Cuties’
11 Mar 2019

This dark popcorn bears comparatively many small cobs with small, round grains. These are almost black, with a blue-green shimmer.

Hongkong-Kumquat: Citrus hindsii
15 Sep 2017

The approximately 1 cm small fruits of the Hong Kong kumquat are the smallest citrus fruits in the world. In principle, they are edible, but they have little to offer because there is almost no flesh.

Sweet violet: Viola odorata
02 Apr 2018

Together with extracts of other flowers, violets form the basis of the violet liqueur “Parfait Amour”.

Dog Rose (Rosehip): Rosa canina
28 Oct 2020

Rosehips can be used to make fruit tea and Hagebuttenmark.

Pomegranate: Punica granatum
16 Oct 2017

Pomegranate juice is obtained from these fruits, which is then processed into pomegranate wine and grenadine.

Red lemon: Citrus limonimedica ‘Pigmentata’
20 Feb 2018

The fruits will probably only turn beautiful red when exposed to sufficient cold, otherwise they can remain yellow and look like ordinary lemons.

Crowfoot-grass: Dactyloctenium aegyptium
01 Mar 2018

The numerous, tiny seeds are collected wildly in times of food scarcity, slightly roasted and ground into a flour from which a thin meal soup or porridge can be prepared.

Pearl millet: Pennisetum glaucum
17 Oct 2017

Pearl millet is processed into millet gruel or flour, which is usually eaten as flatbread. Beer can be brewed from this crop.

Indigo rose tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Indigo Rose’
20 Feb 2018

Indigo rose tomato belongs to the rather small-fruited varieties and can be eaten directly from the shrub.

Tree tumbo: Welwitschia mirabilis
02 Apr 2018

Welwitschia is not a real food plant, but in emergency situations (getting lost in the Namib desert) the core in the flower axis can be eaten raw or roasted.

Crab apple ‘Butterball’: Malus ‘Butterball’
20 Feb 2018

This crab apple can be used in a similar way to most mealy and low acid apples, but above all it can be eaten fresh from the tree.

Leaves of the bitter melon: Momordica charantia
26 Sep 2017

Mainly, the bizarre fruits of the bitter melon are used, but the leaves are also edible…

Bitter melon: Momordica charantia (unripe)
26 Sep 2017

Boiled, fried or filled and baked, the immature fruits are very appreciated because of their bitterness.

Purple Calabash Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Purple Calabash’
10 Jun 2020

The purple calabash tastes sweet and very aromatic, as one would otherwise expect from the much smaller cocktail tomatoes.

Meadow sage: Salvia pratensis
11 Jul 2017

The leaves of the meadow sage are used like the common sage, but they are milder.

Bitter melon: Momordica charantia (ripe)
26 Sep 2017

The red tissue, which encloses the poisonous seeds, tastes very sweet.

Furrowed Lemon: Citrus × limon ‘Canaliculata’
14 Apr 2018

The value of the furrowed lemon does not lie in their yield, they are more regarded as ornamental fruits. Nevertheless, this variety is edible like common lemons: as lemonade, jam and much more.

Japanes Knotweed: Fallopia japonica
16 Jul 2018

As long as they are very tender and have barely broke through the soil, the shoots can be prepared as bleached vegetables such as asparagus. Aboveground shoots can be eaten like rhubarb as long as they are not too woody.

Jabuticaba: Plinia cauliflora
05 Dec 2017

The black skin is tough and tastes astringent, but the white, firm flesh inside is sweet and reminds of a grape or gooseberry in taste.

Applecactus: Harrisia pomanensis
08 May 2018

This berry of Harrisia pomanensis is not only visually reminiscent of pitayas, but also in taste and consistency.

Creeping cinquefoil: Potentilla reptans
08 May 2018

Finely chopped, creeping cinquefoil is suitable as a seasoning herb in salads or dried in herbal salt. In summer the fresh flowers can be used as edible decoration.

Citron: Citrus medica ‘Maxima’
19 Mar 2018

This huge citrons have little pulp and a thick peel (the white albedo), which is usually candied and added as “succade” to pastry.

Childing orange: Citrus × aurantium ‘Foetifera’
28 Sep 2017

The fruits of the childing orange are “pregnant” with another fruit: in the interior grows a smaller fruit, along with a peel.

Canary arbutus: Arbutus canariensis
26 Oct 2017

The local people like the fruits directly from the shrub, but they can also be processed to confectionery and fruit schnapps.

Prickly wild rose (rose hips): Rosa acicularis
26 Jan 2021

North American natives made tea from the leaves and also ate them as a salad. The inner bark was smoked like tobacco.

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