Greenyard Fresh UK import peach and nectarine from across the globe. Principal sources of origin are Morroco, Egypt, France, Spain, Italy, Chile and South Africa. The supply season runs almost fifty two weeks of the year with the peak being June to August and January to March.
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Peaches and Nectarines are both Prunus Persica. Nectarines are actually Peaches but due to a single gene mutation do not have the skin fuzz of a Peach.
The juiciest fruit in the stone fruit family, plums come in many different varieties, some sweet, some slightly more tart. All plums however have certain characteristics in common, with smooth, richly coloured skins and a hard central stone. Plums vary in hue from deep purple to red, yellow and green.
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Plums are high in fibre and nutritionally rich with high levels of potassium, retinol and iron.
Apricots are members of the Prunus Armeniaca species. Originating in Asia the varieties most commonly eaten today have been bred in France and the USA. Apricot skin colour is most commonly Orange with a Red Blush. Some new Red Skin Apricots are now being grown. Apricots have been used by breeders to create new crosses of Apricot and Plum called Apriums.
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Apricots were first grown in China and spread to Europe through the Republic of Armenia.
Cherries are imported mainly from Spain, Turkey, Italy and the USA, but also from Israel. There are probably over 100 different varieties of cherry and they have a broad range in colour as well as taste, from white and yellow to pink, red, dark red, burgundy, purple, and black.
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The English word cherry derives from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum, referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near Turkey, from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe.