Comments on: Strangely-colored fruits and veggies

Question: Strangely-colored fruits and veggies

oflinkey — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:08:50 -0800

What fruits and vegetables do you know of that come in "odd" colors?

I know that parsnips look rather like white carrots. I have seen and eaten purple sweet potatoes, but I have to admit the purple and the white peppers were new to me. And then the black radish!
What other fruits and vegetables (or any other fresh foodstuffs, really) come in a "traditional" color and a "non-traditional" color(s)?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:20:28 -0800

Purple carrots.

By: jrossi4r

jrossi4r — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:20:55 -0800

This year I grew yellow watermelon.

By: slimslowslider

slimslowslider — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:21:41 -0800

Blood oranges (dark red inside)
Yellow raspberries
White asparagus (grown w/o light).

By: jrossi4r

jrossi4r — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:24:44 -0800

There are also white peaches and white cranberries.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:27:27 -0800

Tomatoes come in yellow, purple, and green, too.

By: birdsquared

birdsquared — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:35:45 -0800

I just had orange tomatoes this week. There's also yellow zucchini.

By: PY

PY — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:37:08 -0800

White /yellow plums and white eggplants and white pumpkins. Hey, there's red okra and black tomatoes too.

By: PY

PY — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:41:01 -0800

Red and green bananas. White corn, though that doesn't strike me as strange.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:43:12 -0800

Pink bananas.

By: PY

PY — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:43:29 -0800

Blue corn.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:51:22 -0800

White tomatoes.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:57:48 -0800

Golden Raspberry.

By: PY

PY — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:04:23 -0800

Apple green eggplants and, maybe falling under the fresh foodstuffs category, black sesame seeds.

Black corn
Pink corn

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 22:21:58 -0800

mr_crash_davis, purple carrots are normal. It's the orange ones that are strange.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:34:47 -0800

Purple cauliflower.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:37:21 -0800

I have been served yellow, not orange, carrots. Personally, I see nothing unusual about a white cranberry.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:51:48 -0800

Orange cauliflower.

By: PY

PY — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:18:37 -0800

Red and purple garlic. Black and red rice.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:45:52 -0800

Blue beans and Blue potatoes.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:50:40 -0800

Purple asparagus.

By: PY

PY — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:58:06 -0800

gold kiwifruit

By: Pigpen

Pigpen — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:09:30 -0800

rainbow chard

By: rob511

rob511 — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:59:04 -0800

In the citrus family (in addition to blood oranges, above), there are pink-to-reddish grapefruit, such as the Ruby Red. Key limes are thought of as yellow (which is juice often is), but they're usually picked early. Ripe Key limes are pale green. And, just yesterday, I saw a flat of orange lemons! Size and shape of ordinary Meyer lemons, rind the color of ripe oranges. This is in New Zealand, so it may be a new Kiwi or Aussie variety.

By: oldtimey

oldtimey — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:05:41 -0800

Golden beets and white beets, and Siberian brown tomatoes!

At One Green World you can buy sea berries (in German, Russian, or Buryatian varieties, to keep things interesting) and red kiwis and such. Their catalog makes me want to grow a huge surreal garden.

By: Pigpen

Pigpen — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:26:12 -0800

Purple basil and striped beets

By: zadcat

zadcat — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:54:31 -0800

I grew some chocolate brown tomatoes this year - an heirloom variety. Not as productive as a modern hybrid, but very sweet.

By: letitrain

letitrain — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:49:42 -0800

Pick up an heirloom vegetable seed catalog the colors that we think of as "normal" are often just the variety that stays fresh long enough for commercial market conditions.

By: amarynth

amarynth — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:37:31 -0800

Sadly, purple peppers turn green when they are cooked.

By: babypoe

babypoe — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:31:32 -0800

I had Lemon Cucumbers for the first time at the farmer's market this weekend. Tastes just like regular green cucumbers but looks like a lemon (sort of).