something odd about fruit with fur

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Chiropteran

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I just ate a peach. It was tasty, but I always feel sad biting into it, with it's nice soft furry skin. I think when I get really old and put in an old folk's home I'll keep a pet peach, because I'd probably forget to feed a cat or dog.

The fruit near the middle around the core was all red like it was bloody. Is that normal?
 
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Chiropteran

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Originally posted by: dbk
you could peel it before eating it like kiwis
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I'd still feel bad. Poor little peach, so young and innocent, it doesn't deserve to have it's skin pealed off :(

But it tastes so good.


it looked like this

Wikipedia taught me something new:

Though fuzzy peaches and nectarines are commercially regarded as different fruits, with nectarines often erroneously believed to be a crossbreed between peaches and plums, or a "peach with a plum skin", they belong to the same species as peaches. Several genetic studies have concluded in fact that nectarines are created due to a recessive gene, whereas a fuzzy peach skin is dominant.[5] Nectarines have arisen many times from peach trees, often as bud sports.
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I always thought nectarines were a totally different fruit. Interesting.
 
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DeliciousTacos

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Yes all peaches have the red stuff around the core. As do nectarines, white peaches and white nectarines.
 
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I love summer time...peaches are perhaps my FAVORITE of all the tree fruits.
I went to the local farmer's market this past saturday and bought several pounds...elberta freestones, (blood red in the center) and some white freestones. MMMM.
The wife was supposed to make a cobbler out of the freestones, but she got sick so I had to eat them all. :D

I think the BEST peaches I've ever had were when we lived in Layton Utah, and bought in the fruit stands along hwy. 89 between Farmington and Layton.
 
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Chiropteran

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Originally posted by: Baked
Do you swallow kiwis whole too?
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I don't like the taste of kiwis, so I never eat them unless it's part of a fruit salad or something.

I like plums too but they are so dark, how can you tell if they are good or not? I like fruit that shows bruises, with a plum you never know.
 
Colt45

Colt45

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cooked or prepared stuff = peach

eating whole = nectarine.

not a fan of the fur.
 
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SZLiao214

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
I love summer time...peaches are perhaps my FAVORITE of all the tree fruits.
I went to the local farmer's market this past saturday and bought several pounds...elberta freestones, (blood red in the center) and some white freestones. MMMM.
The wife was supposed to make a cobbler out of the freestones, but she got sick so I had to eat them all. :D

I think the BEST peaches I've ever had were when we lived in Layton Utah, and bought in the fruit stands along hwy. 89 between Farmington and Layton.
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Peaches are one of my favorites as well. I love nectarines and white freestones.
 
moshquerade

moshquerade

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peaches rule, skin and all. here we get juicy ripe peaches from Pennsylvania. good crop this year. :)
 
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Peaches and Nectarines really are the same fruit. A single gene seperates peaches and nectarines, and a "hybrid" of a peach and nectarine will be a peach or nectarine.
 
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If there's fur on the skin, its ripe for the eating. But I prefer fur-less nectarines.
 
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BoomerD

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Fresh from the tree, baked in a pie or cobbler. made into jam, jelly or preserves, even made into salsa...peach rules!
 
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