dried Apricots

Apricot

Apricot Apricot with its sweet taste and beautiful color is one of the popular fruits. Its color defers from yellow to orange and gets beautiful red shades by direct sunlight. Apricot has a velvety skin and its kernel inside the core stone is edible. It is relative to peach and plum, apricot has less and...
Dried Dates Calories

Dried Dates Calories

Dried Dates Calories Dried Dates Calories : While water makes up the bulk of the fruit, about 70% of the weight is palm sugar and has a meaty texture. Dates are available in two types of dry and fresh dates. Dates are rich in minerals and can supply much of the calories needed by the...
Cherry

Cherry

Cherry: Iranian cherry fruits are roughly round with a depression at apex (top) of the fruit. The skin is smooth and shiny and usually ranges from pale to very dark red, although yellow and white cultivars exist. Which City or Province Grow: Tehran + Mashhad Harvest Season: Summer Sweet and sour cherries are the two...
the fig

Fig

Fig: Iranian fig fruits are bell-shaped, with a wide, flat bottom narrowing to a pointed top. When the fruit ripens, the top may bend, forming a "neck". Figs can be brown, purple, green, yellow or black, and vary in size. The skin is slightly wrinkled and leathery. They are often dried for preservation, since the...
almonds - iran almonds

Almond

Almond - with Shell: Iranian almonds are oval and flattened in shape and a little over an 2.5 CM long. They are rough, light brown, and have scattered small holes on the shell. A distinct spine separates the two halves of the almond shell. Almond - without Shell: The meat of the almond is darker brown...
Persimmon

Persimmon

Persimmon: Iranian persimmon fruits are nearly round, shiny, and tough-skinned. They are about 2.5 CM in diameter, and the color when ripe ranges from a pale orange to a slight red color. They ripen from Oct to Nov, usually after the tree has lost its leaves. Which City or Province Grow: Tehran. Harvest Season: Fall....
peach-fruits

Peach

Peach: Iranian peaches can be red, pink, yellow, or a combination of those colors. On one side of the fruit is a distinctive vertical indentation. Peaches and nectarines look very similar, but they can be told apart by their skin texture: peaches are fuzzy and dull, while nectarines are smooth and shiny. Which City or...
Grape

Grape

Grape: Iranian grapes grow in elongated clusters on a vine. Which City or Province Grow: Oroumeiyeh + Ghazvin + Mashhad. Harvest Season: Summer + winter. Each fruit is oval-shaped with red, green, or purple skin. The smooth skin often has a powdery, gray film on the surface. Grape vineGrape Vine: Grape vines grow rapidly and...
Pomegranate

Pomegranate

Pomegranate: Iranian Pomegranates are 7.5 to 10 CM in diameter and round to oblong in shape. The skin is leathery in texture and orange to orange-red in color. The edible portion of the fruit is the juicy red flesh and there are many seeds inside the fruit making it difficult to eat. Which City or...
Blackberry-Fruit

Blackberry

Blackberry: Iranian blackberry is an aggregate fruit that is composed of many smaller fruits called drupes. Which city or province grow: North of Iran. Harvest Season: Summer. Blackberry plantsThe fruit is very dark purple with smooth, fragile skin. In the middle of the cluster is a greenish-white core that extends to almost the bottom of...