With light brown skin and brightly
colored orange flesh, turmeric root looks like ginger root.
Not exact matches
More than 30 years ago, dark - skinned sweet potatoes with sweet bright -
orange flesh were introduced into the U.S. To distinguish them from the more traditional tan - skinned variety of sweet potato with less - sweet light
colored flesh, the African word «nyami» referring to an edible root, was adopted in its English form «yam» and given to those dark - skinned sweet potatoes.
The intensity of the sweet potato's yellow or
orange flesh color is directly correlated to its beta - carotene content.
Their
flesh is a light
orange - yellow
color with juice sweeter than that of most lemons — a perfect culinary blend of a lemon and a mandarin.
It matures to a bright
orange color, is small, thick -
fleshed, and oval shaped.
Kabocha is shaped like a squatty pumpkin, with a deep - green knobby skin and intense yellow -
orange colored flesh.
The blood
orange is different in that it has a very distinctive red
colored flesh and juice with a flavor that makes you think of berries.
But you're probably most familiar with the regular melon that comes with a hard exterior and
orange colored flesh with seeds in the middle.
I took the rich
orange and yellow hues of ginger, turmeric and bee pollen and enhanced them with fruits of the same
color: pineapple and mango, with banana and coconut
flesh added in for good measure.
As with other colorful fruits and veggies,
colored potatoes and sweet potatoes (i.e. yellow,
orange, and purple -
fleshed varieties) are higher in these beneficial plant chemicals.
The
flesh is soft with a rich
orange, sometimes rosy
color.
The more reddish or
orange the
color of the
flesh of the sweet potatoes, the stronger this aroma will be.
Because pumpkin hybrid cultivars usually maintain at least some characteristics of their heirloom parents, most
colored pumpkins»
flesh shows some degree of
orange and is also high in antioxidants, like vitamin A, as well as in other nutrients, such as potassium, vitamin C, zinc, and dietary fiber.
The deep
orange color of the pumpkin
flesh tells us that it is a rich source of beta carotene (vitamin A)-- which is important for healthy eyes, and boosts the immune system too (important this time of year).