The Visual Encyclopedia of Fruits is a complete visual reference to 182 edible fruits, nuts and berries from around the world, including exotic and rare fruits and fruits used as vegetables, beans, nuts and spices. It includes more than 500 high resolution photographs, botanical name and classification, common and foreign names, a comprehensive description of the fruit and plant, nutrition values, origin and areas of production, buying, storage and handling tips, and food and medicinal uses.

It is a great source of information for professional, home cooks, and fruit lovers of all ages. It is also a useful reference for anyone associated with the fresh produce and food industries. It is probably one the most complete and comprehensive fruits encyclopedia available in the App Store.

About Fruits

In botany, a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Fruits are the means by which many plants disseminate seeds. In common language usage, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet and edible in the raw state. The botanical sense includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, and tomatoes. In the culinary sense of these words, a fruit is usually any sweet-tasting plant product, especially those associated with seeds; a vegetable is any savoury or less sweet plant product; and a nut is any hard, oily, and shelled plant product. In addition, some spices are fruits, botanically speaking. Edible gymnosperm seeds are also given fruit names. Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, wheat or rice, is also a kind of fruit, termed a caryopsis. Many common terms for seeds and fruit do not correspond to the botanical classifications. In botany, seeds are ripened ovules; fruits are the ripened ovaries or carpels that contain the seeds and a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed.