"to its illegal marketing schemes. The company's main product is pomegranate juice, which is sold in a trademark ""double-bulb"" bottle with the product name, POM, featured in capital letters where the O is substituted by a heart symbol. The company also manufactures blended juice beverages, such as pomegranate juice mixed with juices of blueberry, cranberry, cherry, mango or tangerine, and bottled tea- and coffee-based beverages of various flavors distributed in more conventional containers. In addition to drinks, the company sells pills and concentrated liquid products marketed as nutritional supplements. In 2017, POM Wonderful acquired the pomegranate distributor Ruby Fresh. While"
"Myrica rubra Myrica rubra, also called yangmei (; Cantonese: yeung4 mui4; Shanghainese: ), , Chinese bayberry, Japanese bayberry, red bayberry, yumberry, waxberry, or Chinese strawberry (and often mistranslated from Chinese as arbutus) is a subtropical tree grown for its sweet, crimson to dark purple-red, fruit. It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing up to high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. It tolerates poor acidic soils. The root system is deep, with no obvious taproot. The fruit is spherical, in diameter, with a knobby"
"is seedless and particularly sweet, and can be eaten whole. In the Valencia region of Spain, there is a variegated form of kaki called the ""Ribera del Xuquer"", ""Spanish persimon"" (with one 'm') or ""Rojo Brillante"" (""bright red""). Date-plum (""Diospyros lotus""), also known as lotus persimmon, is native to southwest Asia and southeast Europe. It was known to the ancient Greeks as ""the fruit of the gods"" and often referred to as ""nature's candy"". Its English name probably derives from Persian ""Khormaloo"" خرمالو literally ""date-plum"", referring to the taste of this fruit, which is reminiscent of both plums and dates."
"distributed in Europe and the United States between November and April, and is on occasion available from July to September. Ugli fruit The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange and a tangerine. Its species is ""Citrus reticulata"" × ""Citrus paradisi"". Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today. The name is a variation of the word ""ugly"", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind,"
"Rollinia deliciosa Rollinia deliciosa is a species of flowering plant in the custard-apple family, Annonaceae, that is native to tropical South America. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, commonly known as biribá or wild sugar-apple, throughout the world's tropics and subtropics. The Brazilian name, ""biribá"" has become somewhat well known. Nonetheless, the fruits are occasionally known by other names, including ""wild sugar apple"" and ""aratiku"". Biribá is a fast-growing, flood-tolerant, sun-loving tropical tree, with leaves up to 35 cm long. It can reach a height of , which can bear fruit from seed within 3 years. The fruit is"
"Tangelo The tangelo ( , ; ""C. reticulata × C. maxima"" or ""x C. paradisi""), ""Citrus × tangelo"", is a citrus fruit hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit. Sometimes referred to as honeybells, they are the size of an adult fist, have a tart, tangy, tangerine taste, and are juicy at the expense of flesh. They generally have loose skin and are easier to peel than oranges, readily distinguished from them by a characteristic ""nipple"" at the stem. Tangelos can be used as a substitute for mandarin oranges or sweet oranges. The early maturing Orlando tangelo is noted for"
"Sugar-apple The sugar-apple, sweetsop, or custard apple is the fruit of ""Annona squamosa"", the most widely grown species of ""Annona"" and a native of the tropical Americas and West Indies. The Spanish traders of Manila galleons brought it to Asia, where its old Mexican name ""ate"" may still be found in Bengali ata, Nepalese aati, Sinhalese mati anoda, Burmese awzar thee, Indonesia “ Srikaya”’ and atis in the Philippines. It is also known as sitaphal in India (mainly ""Annona reticulata""), in the Philippines and in Australia. The name is also used in Portuguese as ata. The fruit is spherical-conical, in"
"mangosteen, and the cherimoya"", wrote the botanist Berthold Carl Seemann, ""are considered the finest fruits in the world, and I have tasted them in those localities where they are supposed to attain their highest perfection – the pineapple in Guayaquil, the mangosteen in the Indian Archipelago, and the cherimoya on the slopes of the Andes, and if I were asked which would be the best fruit, I would choose without hesitation, cherimoya. Its taste, indeed, surpasses that of every other fruit, and Haenke was quite right when he called it the masterpiece of Nature."" The cherimoya of the Granada-Málaga Tropical"
"since 1984, from where the name ""Sweetie"" originated. Following is description by OJB at University of California, Riverside Citrus Variety Collection: Following is from Sunkist: Oroblanco An oroblanco, oro blanco (white gold) or sweetie (""Citrus grandis"" Osbeck × ""C. Paradisi"" Macf.) is a sweet seedless citrus hybrid fruit similar to grapefruit. It is often referred to as oroblanco grapefruit. Oroblanco was developed as a cross between a diploid acidless pomelo and a seedy white tetraploid grapefruit, resulting in a triploid seedless fruit that is less acidic and less bitter than the grapefruit. The oroblanco was patented by the University of"
"Ugli fruit The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange and a tangerine. Its species is ""Citrus reticulata"" × ""Citrus paradisi"". Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today. The name is a variation of the word ""ugly"", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside. UGLI is a registered trademark of Cabel Hall Citrus Limited, under which"
"in the state, but two grafted trees were planted at the University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center, as well as the USDA's National Clonal Repository in Miami. From these locations bud wood for the Ruby was sent to different countries for commercial evaluation. It is now grown on some commercial scale in Africa. The fruit are oblong in shape and small at maturity, averaging under a pound in weight. They develop a brilliant crimson blush covering most of the fruit. The yellow flesh has minimal fiber and rich and spicy sweet flavor with a strong aroma. Ruby contains"
"it shares some common names. It is also called ""star fruit"" in English (including Jamaican English and Philippine English) and literally translates into ""Stjernefrugt"" in Danish, ""Sternfrucht"" in German, and ""Stjärnfrukt"" in Swedish. In Spanish, it is known as ""carambola"", ""carambolo"", ""tamarindo chino"", ""tamarindo culí"", ""balimbín"" (Philippine Spanish, from Tagalog ""balimbing"", plural is ""balimbines""), and ""fruta china"" (Ecuador). In maritime Southeast Asia, it is known as ""belimbing"" in Indonesian and Malay and ""balimbíng"" or ""saranate"" in Tagalog. Carambola Carambola, or star fruit, is the fruit of ""Averrhoa carambola"", a species of tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and throughout Malesia."
"Cantaloupe Cantaloupe (muskmelon, mushmelon, rockmelon, sweet melon) or spanspek (South Africa) is a variety of the ""Cucumis melo"" species in the Cucurbitaceae family. Cantaloupes range in weight from . Originally, ""cantaloupe"" referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe, but may mean any orange-fleshed melon of ""C. melo"". China is the world's largest producer of cantaloupes, providing half of the global total in 2016. The name cantaloupe is derived via French ""cantaloup"" from Italian ""Cantalupo,"" which was formerly a papal county seat near Rome, after the fruit's introduction there from Armenia. It was first mentioned in English literature in"
"rounded pear shaped fruit cauliflorously (on the trunk). Inside the hard green shell that contain several large seeds about 4 cm in diameter. The yellowish-orange pulp is edible, is usually boiled after which it is said to resemble meat in taste. It is rich in A, B and C vitamins. The tree is not widely known outside its native range from Ecuador to Panama and Venezuela, but has been planted in tropical botanical gardens, including in Singapore (where it is referred to as 'pungol') and Australia. Gustavia superba Gustavia superba is an understory tree that grows in Central and North-Western"
"Orangelo An orangelo (Spanish chironja - C. ×paradisi × C. ×sinensis) is a hybrid citrus fruit believed to have originated in Puerto Rico. The fruit, a cross between a grapefruit and an orange, had spontaneously appeared in the shade-providing trees grown on coffee plantations in the Puerto Rican highlands. In 1956, Carlos G. Moscoso, from the Horticulture, Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Puerto Rico noticed trees that grew fruits that were larger and a brighter yellow than those of the other trees on the plantations. Rootstock trials led to the development of the hybrid commonly known as the"
"were not determined until the 1940s. This led to the official name being altered to ""Citrus × paradisi,"" the ""×"" identifying its hybrid origin. An early pioneer in the American citrus industry was Kimball Atwood, a wealthy entrepreneur who founded the Atwood Grapefruit Company in the late nineteenth century. The Atwood Grove became the largest grapefruit grove in the world, with a yearly output of 80,000 boxes of fruit. It was there that pink grapefruit was first discovered in 1906. The 1929 Ruby Red patent was associated with real commercial success, which came after the discovery of a red grapefruit"
"of a few flowers with five reflexed sepals and five white petals each about half a centimeter long. The fruit is a lightly hairy red raspberry. Rubus glaucifolius Rubus glaucifolius is a North American species of wild raspberry known by the common name San Diego raspberry. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in mountain forests. ""Rubus glaucifolius"" is a tangling shrub with very slender, lightly prickly stem spreading and branching outward. The leaves are each made up of usually three lobed, toothed leaflets, sometimes five. Each leaflet is veined and wrinkly in texture, white on the"
"Oroblanco An oroblanco, oro blanco (white gold) or sweetie (""Citrus grandis"" Osbeck × ""C. Paradisi"" Macf.) is a sweet seedless citrus hybrid fruit similar to grapefruit. It is often referred to as oroblanco grapefruit. Oroblanco was developed as a cross between a diploid acidless pomelo and a seedy white tetraploid grapefruit, resulting in a triploid seedless fruit that is less acidic and less bitter than the grapefruit. The oroblanco was patented by the University of California in 1981 after its development by Robert Soost and James W. Cameron at that university's citrus experiment station in Riverside, California. The nine-year project"
"Manchineel The manchineel tree (""Hippomane mancinella"") is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). It is native to tropical southern North America and northern South America. The name ""manchineel"" (sometimes written ""manchioneel"") as well as the specific epithet mancinella is from Spanish manzanilla (""little apple""), from the superficial resemblance of its fruit and leaves to those of an apple tree. A present-day Spanish name is ', ""little apple of death"". This refers to the fact that manchineel is one of the most dangerous trees in the world. Manchineel is also known as the beach apple. Manchineel is"
"among the largest of any ""Rubus"" species, making its Latin species name ""parviflorus"" (""small-flowered"") a misnomer. The plant produces edible composite fruit approximately a centimeter (0.4 inches) in diameter, which ripen to a bright red in mid to late summer. Like other raspberries it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. The drupelets may be carefully removed separately from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit which bears a resemblance to a thimble, perhaps giving the plant its name. Thimbleberry fruits are smaller, flatter, and softer than raspberries, and"
"as diuretic. [4] [4] Laurelia sempervirens Laurelia sempervirens, commonly called Peruvian nutmeg, from mapuche: tihue, trihue, also called Chilean laurel or Chilean sassafras. It is a species of Evergreen tree in the family Atherospermataceae, formerly Monimiaceae family, in the southern hemisphere genus of plant ""Laurelia"", not closely related to Lauraceae despite the similarity. It is endemic to Chile. It occurs 34–41° South Latitude. They require a warm subtropical to tropical climate that is cool but also frost-free or with only very slight winter frosts not below -4 °C, and with high summer heat, rainfall, and humidity. This is, the laurel"
"Fruittella Fruittella are chewy sweets similar to Starburst and Chewits. They are made using real fruit juice, natural colours and natural flavours, gelatine and shellac. They are made by the Italian-Dutch company Perfetti Van Melle, which also manufactures Mentos and Chupa Chups. Fruittella is actually two separate words, making 'fruit tella'. Fruittella are sold in 41g sticks in the UK in the following flavours: In 2007 a choc-filled Fruittella was released. The company kept the name Fruittella despite the fact that chocolate is not a fruit. The chocolate Fruitella also exhibited an uncharacteristically hard texture which some members of the"
"""chironja."" In Puerto Rican Spanish, the name is a portmanteau of orange (Puerto Rican Spanish: china) and grapefruit (toronja). Orangelos are often eaten in the same manner as grapefruit (cut in half and eaten with a grapefruit spoon), but are sweeter and brighter in color than grapefruit, as well as being easier to peel. They are round to pear-shaped, with 9-13 segments. Orangelo An orangelo (Spanish chironja - C. ×paradisi × C. ×sinensis) is a hybrid citrus fruit believed to have originated in Puerto Rico. The fruit, a cross between a grapefruit and an orange, had spontaneously appeared in the"
"Rubus parvifolius Rubus parvifolius, called Japanese bramble, or Australian raspberry in the United States or native raspberry in Australia is a species of plants in the rose family. It is a scrambling shrub native to eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) and Australia. It has also become naturalized in a few scattered locations in the United States. ""Rubus parvifolius"" is a shrub up to 2 meters tall with arching branches armed with curved prickles. Young stems are finely pubescent, becoming hairless with age. The leaves are pinnate with 3 to 5 toothed leaflets. Flowers are numerous, in clumps at the"
"it has found limited commercial success because it is more difficult to grow than other varieties. The varieties of Texas and Florida grapefruit include: Oro Blanco, Ruby Red, Pink, Rio Star, Thompson, White Marsh, Flame, Star Ruby, Duncan, and Pummelo HB. China is the top producer of grapefruit and pomelo. It is followed by The United States and Mexico. Grapefruit comes in many varieties. One way to differentiate between varieties is by the flesh color of fruit they produce. The most popular varieties currently cultivated are red, white, and pink hues, referring to the internal pulp color of the fruit."
"around tall, although they may reach . The leaves are glossy, dark green, long (up to ), and thin. It produces white four-petaled flowers. The fruit is yellow-orange skinned and generally, an oblate spheroid in shape; it ranges in diameter from . The flesh is segmented and acidic, varying in color depending on the cultivars, which include white, pink, and red pulps of varying sweetness (generally, the redder varieties are the sweetest). The 1929 U.S. Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has the first grapefruit patent. The genetic origin of the grapefruit is a hybrid mix. One ancestor of the"
"palm (""Prestoea montana""), tabonuco (""Dacryodes excelsa""), and negra lora (""Matayba domingensis""); the fruits of ""bejuco de rana"" (""Marcgravia sintenisii""), camasey (""Miconia sintenisii""), cupey de altura (""Clusia gundlachii""), and ""palo de cruz"" (""Rheedia portoricensis""); the flowers of bejuco de rana, achiotillo (""Alchornea latifolia""), and ""Piptocarpha tetrantha""; the leaves and twigs of cupeillo (""Clusia grisebachiana""), laurel sabino (""Magnolia splendens""), caimitillo verde (""Micropholis garciniaefolia""), and ""Piptocarpha tetrantha""; the bark of bejuco de rana, cupeillo, and cachimbo cumun (""Psychotria berteriana""); and the buds of cuaba (""Inga vera""). It normally selects the fruits positioned directly in front of its eyes, picking them one at a"
"(purple), Tropical Punch (pink), Orange (orange), Berry Punch (blue), and Punch (red). The Tropical variety also includes six flavors, two of which are also included in the Original variety (Berry Punch and Tropical Punch) as well as four other flavors - Summer Punch (red), Citrus Punch (green), Banana (light yellow), and Pineapple (dark yellow). The Light variety includes four of the original flavors (Lemon Lime, Grape, Berry Punch, and Strawberry) but they are sugar-free and low calorie. The Sport variety also has four flavors - Tropical (pink), Grape (purple), Orange (orange), and Blue Raspberry (blue). The Sport pops are the"
"between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a soft sweet taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil (where it is known as or ""sweet passion fruit""), South Africa, Rwanda and Kenya. The main importers are the United"
"also called the Honeybell in the gift fruit trade, where it is one of the most popular varieties. A true Honeybell Tangelo is a hybrid-cross between Thompson tangerine and a pomelo, hence the name Tangelo released by the USDA. Both Minneolas and Honeybells are usually fairly large, typically 3–3½ inches in diameter; the Honeybells tend to be larger and sweeter. The peel colour, when mature, is a bright-reddish-orange colour. The rind of the Minneola is relatively thin, while the rind of the Honeybell is slightly thicker. Both the Minneola and Honeybell Tangelo peel rather easily. Both are very juicy. Both"
"cedar, cutlass, doudouce, egg, Graham, Bombay, ice-cream, Julie, long, pawpaw, Peter, rose, round, spice, starch, Tommy, teen, turpentine, vert, zabrico), breadfruit, sorrel (roselle), passion fruit), watermelons, sapodilla Manilkara zapota , pommerac (Syzygium malaccense), guavas, pommecythère (Spondias dulcis), caimite (star apple), abiu, five fingers (carambola), cherries, zaboca (avocado), popoy (papaya), chenette (Melicoccus bijugatus), pineapples, oranges, Portugal (tangerines of various genetic breeding), plum (Governor, King and common variety), West Indian (Barbadian) cherry (Acerola), bananas (sikyé, silk, Gros Michel, Lacatan), barbadine (granadilla), balatá, soursop, cashews, Tamarind, Ceres (Flacourtia indica), , Cocorite (Attalea maripa), Gru-Gru-beff (Acrocomia aculeata), Fat-Pork (Chrysobalanus icaco), pears. and coconuts (several"
"peel is known as 'Amarillo' or canary melon. The attractive green and gold-to-bright yellow-striped Santa Claus melon somewhat resembles a small watermelon. Inside is a mellow and mildly flavoured, pale-greenish flesh very similar to that of a honeydew. The ripest Santa Claus melon will have soft blossom ends that yield to gentle pressure and a vibrant yellow hue. Because of its thick skin, this melon does not release a tell-tale aroma when ripe. This melon was named in English as recognition of its long keeping qualities, i.e., ""until Christmas"". This melon is widely available in the Northern Hemisphere. Grown in"
"broad, with green flesh speckled with white, slight downy hairs, containing numerous seeds. The fruit is quite sour when it falls off the plant and can take a month to ripen to its full flavor of sour strawberries. Due to the fragrant fruit, it is in small-scale cultivation in the Caribbean. Passiflora vitifolia Passiflora vitifolia, the perfumed passionflower, is a species of ""Passiflora"", native to southern Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northwestern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). It is a vine with cylindric stems covered in red-brown hairs when young. The leaves are serrate, three-lobed, up to"