Acid Fruits	Oranges, lemons, limes, sour peaches, sour plums, grapefruits, sour grapes, pineapples, tangerines and tomatoes.  These fruits are high in acid content like ascorbic acid (vitamin C), and have excellent detoxifying properties.  They can cause allergic reactions to people who are susceptible to allergies against cow’s milk.
Low Acid Fruits	Persimmons, plums, peaches, cherries, apples, fresh figs, olives, mangoes, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and apricots. These fruits have a little less acid content than the ‘Acid Fruits’ and can be eaten quite freely
Sweet Fruits	Dried figs, raisins, pears, prunes, sweet grapes and dates
Melons	Watermelons, galia, honey dew, cantaloupes. Melons are one of the healthier fruits in terms of nutrition.  Watermelons especially are known for the fact that they contain as much iron as spinach.
Starchy Fruits	Bananas, peanuts, winter squashes, pumpkins
Non-Starchy Fruits	Cucumber, zucchini, eggplant, sweet pepper, yellow squash
Protein containing Fruits	Olive and avocados.  Hard to believe, but olives and avocados are considered fruits and not vegetables!!

In a table I saw in the following website: www.thefruitpages.com  individual individual fruit has been scored by providing various values against nutrients it contains and unusual fruit like mangoes, papaya, kiwifruit and guavas appear to be just as healthy as our traditional apples and pears.  Fruit salads are no longer just boring bits of fruit lumped together.  A tropical fruit salad can contain some really interesting flavours and be just as healthy and nutritious.

Interesting Facts
Did you know that some fruits are called fruit-vegetables? We see hem as vegetables and know them as vegetables but they are actually classified as fruit. The definition of the term fruit is that which is, fleshy, and the seed bearing part of a plant is used as food.  The definition of the term Vegetable on the other hand is ’a part of various types of plants eaten as food’.

So which products do we consider to be vegetables that are in reality fruit vegetables? The Tomato is one of them, as is egg-fruit, green pepper, hot pepper, avocado, red pepper, cucumber, tomato and zucchini.  All of the fruit vegetables consist of 80% water just like the other fruits. Hence they are just as healthy as the others.  From a personal perspective, whether you eat fruit vegetables, fruit or vegetables, they are all healthy and good for you if eaten in oderation!! 

This month’s recipe is Orange Cake. 

Orange and Cherry Almond Cake

Ingredients:
3 Oranges

4 oz Glace Cherries (chopped)

200g ground almonds (an ideal substitute to almonds is walnuts).  

6 eggs separated

6-8 cardamom pods

Method:

1. Allow oranges to simmer for an hour or put into a pressure cooker and cook them so that they are soft.
2. Once soft, take the oranges out of the pan and cut in half.
3. Take out the pips and mash/liquidise to a pulp.
4. Allow to cool and then add the ground almonds and mix well.
5. Add in the chopped glace cherries
6. Add the egg yolks to the mixture and beat well.

7. Sprinkle some ground cardamom into the mixture
8.     In a separate bowl, whisk the six egg whites until they are stiff.

9.     Fold into the orange mixture bake on a moderate oven (160 C) 
for 45 minutes.