feijoa


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Related to feijoa: Feijoa sellowiana
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Synonyms for feijoa

South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit

dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh

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Flavors tend toward the exotic, such as Beekiwi, a Manuka honey ice cream with a real kiwifruit swirl; Gingernut, awarded a Gold Medal at the 2002 NZ Ice Cream Awards, which contains crushed gingernut biscuits, sherry and pieces of crystallized ginger; Allsorts of Liquorices, a grey-green ice cream made with real liquorices root powder with chopped liquorice allsort; Cardamom and Orange, a fresh flavored orange ice cream combined with citrus zest and cardamom, also a Gold Medal at the 2002 NZ Ice Cream Awards; and yet a third Gold Medal winner, Feijoa Feijoa, described as a "classic New Zealand flavour" and made with real feijoa fruit.
Feijoa, ein Baum, der Vogeln seine Blumenblatter als Lockspeise bietet.
Pitahaja, Jostaberry, Feijoa, Nashi, and Niespero - all rare tropical fruits which are not widely available on the European market - are well known taste profiles nowadays, thanks to Melchers Aromen, and many manufacturers like to include them in their product range.
It is possible that the winds of Apsheron might change direction and, within a single generation, these dry steppes would turn into humid subtropics, with lemons, tangerines, feijoa. After all, things previously inconceivable do happen!
Thanks to this, oranges, tangerines, lemons, feijoa, kiwi and other exotic fruits are grown in the south of the country.
The results obtained agree with the TSS behavior ([degrees]Brix) reported in other works for peach tree (SILVA et al., 2016) and feijoa (MARTINEZ-VEGA et al., 2008).
Acca sellowiana (Berg) Burret (Myrtaceae) (feijoa) is a native fruit species found in the highland regions of the States of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina in Brazil as well as in the northern part of Uruguay and Argentina (Thorp and Bieleski 2002).
Several studies have emphasized the antioxidant activity of species belonging to the Myrtaceae family such as Feijoa sellowiana (Weston, 2010), Psidium guajava (Tachakittirungrod et al., 2007), and Eucalyptus rostrata (Okamura et al., 1993).