Are you fruity?

Pears. I eat one just about every day with breakfast.

Lots of fruits that haven't been included in the poll, e.g. custard apples,
persimmons, jaboticaba, rockmelons, pawpaw, raspberries, strawberries, boysonberries, gooseberries, kiwifruit, tamarillos and lots more.

hi there,

has anyone ever tried a durian? i tried it in malaysia a few years ago. never forgot it...............tasted ok, but oh the smell

Mangostein is yummy but you can't beat bananas!

Looks like the Mango chompers are plentiful out there...

I always thought "tomato's" were vegies, learn something new everyday eh!

As for Lemons I think they only go with 3 things...

Pancakes - Fish - and the good old "lick, sip and suck" Tequila:mexico:

quite partial to mandarins at the mom

YELNATS said:

The tomato.

Definitely a fruit and a great source of lycopenes.

http://www.lycopene.org

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CoffeeKing said:

I always thought "tomatoes" were vegies, learn something new everyday eh!

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Now people, hear this:

Fruit is the SWEET edible part of plants. (Gastronomy)

Fruit is the developed ovary of a seed plant eg peapod, nut, tomato, pineapple, pumpkin. (Botany)

Hence... when you talk FOOD, a tomato is a vegetable. Not a fruit!
... walnuts are nuts. Not a fruit.

When you talk plants... tomato is a fruit, just like pumpkin, almonds and peas are.

Simple and complex hey!

YELNATS... I read your link and wondered, as lycopene is four times more bioavailable when a tomato is heated thus raw tomatoes don't have much absorbed. The lycopene clings to fibre which is not absorbed. It does dissolve in oil so if you cook tomato in olive oil to make a pasta sauce this is great.

This is why males instinctively cover their food with tomato sauce and love eating pizza! The fat in cheese helps lycopene in tomato paste to be absorbed.

Vine ripened tomatoes - really red ones, contain more lycopene.
Lycopene potentially protects the prostate against cancer.

Your link is almost right:

Research shows that lycopene in tomatoes can be absorbed more efficiently by the body if processed into juice, sauce, paste and ketchup. The chemical form of lycopene found in tomatoes is converted by the temperature changes involved in processing to make it more easily absorbed by the body.

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It's also a fact that chillies contain capcaicum which seeks out prostate cancer cells and destroys them.
This was discovered about two years ago!
Another instinctive reason why males like hot chilli?

Back on topic:
My favourite fruit is the cherry. The cherries from the USA at the moment are so full of flavour! Oh the taste!
And as Buddha said, when you eat a cherry - eat the cherry. Yummm

Doris said:

It's also a fact that chillies contain capcaicum which seeks out prostate cancer cells and destroys them.
This was discovered about two years ago!
Another instinctive reason why males like hot chilli?

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Surely the prostate cure-all is the Dorset Naga then? http://www.dorsetnaga.com/

The only problem is how to prevent them dissolving your innards and leaving great smoldering cavern where you esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine used to be.

wayneL said:

Surely the prostate cure-all is the Dorset Naga then? http://www.dorsetnaga.com/

The only problem is how to prevent them dissolving your innards and leaving great smoldering cavern where you esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine used to be.

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I had some strong Red Thai Curry ONCE.

OMIGOD... the pain! But... once I swallowed it there was no pain on the way down!
Lots of milk later... I realized it's only the taste buds on the tongue that feel the heat!

So Wayne... feel free to have some prostate prophylactic hot curry!

Well I maintain bragging rights for my chillie eating prowess. Habenoros... no problem. Red Savinas @ 500,000 SHU... a bit uncomfotable, but necessary to maintain my asbestos mouth reputation.

But Dorset Naga a 1,000,000 SHU or more... OMG!!!!

I am avoiding that confrontation. A million SHU is a bridge toooooooo far.

Grapes, mangos, watermelon, lychees, mandarins, papaya and pawpaw would have to be among my favourites. Dragon fruit is also good, though uncommon and expensive. But all fruit tastes good to me and I can't think of any that I actually dislike.
I eat a lot of fruit and a lot of vegetables too, mostly raw or lightly steamed.

Apart from tasting great, fruit has remarkable curative properties and disease-fighting capabilities, as do raw vegetables. My wife and I once went on a healthy eating campaign for 6 months straight, during which time we ate 80 to 90% raw fruit and 10 to 20% raw vegetables. No other food at all except for a handful of raw nuts each day.
That winter our kids had severe flu that grounded them for 10 days and shut down half their school. Neither my wife nor I caught that flu, even though we were looking after our kids and breathing their flu germs etc. We didn't have a cold or a sniffle all winter......the only winter of our lives when we didn't come down with some kind of influenza related illness.
There were other health benefits as well. White spots on my arms disappeared, aches and pains disappeared, we felt energised and alive, we shed excess pounds. It was fantastic.

I was once close to being a complete invalid due to severe arthritis. I rid myself of arthritis completely in three weeks with a diet of raw vegetables and raw fruit, and freshly extracted vegetable and fruit juices, and a small amount of raw nuts. No other food, no food additives like sugar, salt, sauce, no caffeine or alcohol, no dairy products, no meat. Fruit, raw vegetables and nuts, and juices, nothing else. For the first three days, juice only, and herb tea.
I've known the same diet to cure the symptoms of Ross River fever, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a variety of other ailments.
The benefits of raw eating are very much understated and are generally not recognised by the medical profession as an effective way of preventing and curing serious illness.
Yet biological health clinics, based on healing illness and disease by using raw foods, have been operating in Europe for at least sixty years. These clinics have cured diseases and illnesses such as arthritis, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, lupus, migraine, and liver disorders, to name just a few.

I think we're very fortunate here in Australia to be able to grow just about any fruit on the planet. Some countries I've been to, fruit was not only in short supply but was so expensive as to be almost unaffordable.