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Weird Fruits & Vegetables

Intermarché, a supermarket chain in France, launched a campaign to help prevent food waste by providing unattractive fruits and vegetables which are just as delicious as their pristine counterparts.

The campaign is supported by advertising agency Marcel who, with the help of photographer Patrice de Villiers, produces 7 posters starring the unattractive produce : the grotesque apple, the ridiculous potato, the hideous orange, the failed lemon, the disfigured eggplant, the ugly carrot, and the unfortunate Clementine.

2014 is declared by European Union as the Year against Food Waste.

Kiwifruit

Kiwifruit is originally known as Chinese gooseberry.  The first kiwifruit tree in New Zealand was planted from seeds brought from China in 1904 by Isabel Fraser, a headmistress of the Wanganui Girls’s College.

Auckland-based fruit packers Turners and Growers briefly named the fruit “melonette”, but the move was proven a mistake as melons and berries were charged heavier import tariffs at that time.

Thus in 1959, Sir Harvey Turner renamed the ‘melonette’ to ”kiwifruit”, derived from the Maori word ‘kiwi’ referred to the native kiwi birds.

Kiwifruit is the berry fruit of a woody vine in the genus Actinidia.   The genus Actinidia contains around 60 species, native to temperate eastern Asia.  The fruit is a large berry containing numerous small seeds.  In most Actinidia species, the fruits is edible.  The skin of the fruit varies in size, shape, hairiness and colour.   The flesh too varies in colour, juiciness, texture, and taste.  

The most common kiwifruit is the fuzzy kiwifruit ( A. deliciosa ).  Other species commonly eaten include : baby kiwifruit ( A. arguta ),  golden kiwifruit ( A. chinensis ), Chinese egg gooseberry ( A. coriacea ), Arctic kiwifruit ( A. kolomikta ), red kiwifruit ( A. melanandra ), silver kiwifruit ( A. polygama ), purple kiwifruit ( A. purpurea ), etc.

常见根茎类食材

Dioscorea opposita

山药, 薯蓣, 淮山药, 怀山药, 山菇,  怀参

Chinese yam, Japanese yam, Yamaimo, Korean yam,

山药原产中国淮河，17世紀传至朝鲜、日本。营养丰富，食药两用。

煮法 :

1. 山药灵芝粥

2. 山药排骨汤

3. 山药豆腐汤

4. 香菇山药炒肉

5. 山药炖牛腩

6. 罗汉果山药百合雪耳

禁忌 :

1. 与鲤鱼相克，禁同食。

2. 禁与甘遂同食。

3. 山药富维生素C，破坏猪肝中含铜、铁、锌等金属微量元素。不宜同食。

4. 黄瓜、南瓜、胡萝卜、笋瓜含维生素C分解酶，破坏山药中的维生C。不宜同食。

5. 海味含丰富蛋白质，山药含鞣酸，混合食用会化合成鞣酸蛋白，造成便秘，增加肠内毒物的吸收，引起腹痛、恶心、呕吐等症状。

6. 山药有收敛作用，感冒、大便燥结者及肠胃积滞者忌用。

适宜 :

1. 脾虚食少、久泻不止、肾虚遗精、带下、尿频、肺虚喘咳者宜常食。

Pueraria lobata var thomsonii

粉葛, 干葛, 甘葛, 葛葛根, 葛麻茹, 葛子根, 葛条根, 鸡齐根

Japanese arrowroot, kudzu

粉葛原产中国。营养丰富，食药两用。可制成葛粉 ( kuzuko )。

煮法 :

1. 桂花葛粉羹

2. 葛根粉粥

3. 葛粉饭

4. 粉葛黑豆猪骨汤

5. 茅根马蹄竹蔗糖水

6. 胡萝卜玉米粉葛汤

适宜 :

1. 高血压、高血脂等心血管疾病的患者，化学性肝损伤者、饮酒过渡的人、脑力劳动者、记忆力减退的老人、发热的病人。

2. 用于解酒

Arctium lappa

牛蒡, 东洋参, 东洋牛鞭菜, 白肌人参, 吳某, 吳帽, 夜叉頭, 牛菜, 鼠粘, 蒡翁菜, 便牽牛, 蝙蝠刺, 便南牛

Gobo, greater burdock, begger’s buttons

牛蒡原产日本，10世紀传入中国。营养丰富，食药两用。果实别名恶实、大力子。

煮法 :

1. 牛蒡排骨湯

2. 牛蒡茶

3. 牛蒡酒

4. 香炒牛蒡

5. 香酥芝麻牛蒡

禁忌 :

1. 低血压患者慎食。

2. 牛蒡多涩，过敏皮性肤炎或湿疹者，应避免食用。

3. 牛蒡性寒而滑利，脾虚腹泻者应慎用。

Pachyrhizus erosus

沙葛, 豆薯, 凉薯, 洋地瓜

Sengkuang, Mexican yam, Mexican turnip, jicama

沙葛原产热带美洲。由西班牙人传入菲律宾，以后传到世界各地。可生食、熟食，加工制成沙葛粉，有清凉去热的功效。种子及茎叶中含有剧毒，忌食。

煮法 :

1. 沙葛猪骨汤

2. 沙葛炒虾仁

3. 沙葛炒肉丁

4. 春卷

5. 包子