"Foreign" fruit and veg?

ColJack

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Does anyone know of a comprehensive list if what veg is free / super free etc?

I mean things like dudhi or mooli etc?
The new Tesco near me has a wide variety of "foreign" veg and I want to give some a try.

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Ohh id be interested in this always gd to try different free/superfree! :)

Sorry coljack that im no use to you though.
 
Here's my list................


Superfree Food

Apples
Apricots
Carambola (star fruit)
Cashew fruit (not cashew nut)
Cherries
Clementines
Damsons
Elderberries
Feijoa
Figs
Greengages
Grenadilla (fibre)
Kiwi fruit
Kumquats (fibre)
Manderines
Medlars (fibre)
Mulberries
Nectarines
Oranges
Ortaniques (honey tangerines)
Papaya (paw paw)
Passion fruit (fibre)
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums
Prickly pears
Satsumas
Tangerines
Ugli fruit
Watermelon

Amla (indian gooseberry) (fibre)
Bananas
Blueberries
Cape Gooseberry (physalis)
Custard apple (cherimoya)
Grapes
Jambu fruit
Jujube (chinese date)
Lychees
Mammie apple
Mango
Mango
Mangosteen
Persimmon (sharon fruit)
Pomegranets (fibre)
Rambutan
Sapodilla (very high in fibre)

Artichokes (fibre)
Brussels sprout (fibre)
Garlic (fibre)
Water chestnuts (fibre)


Pete’s Super Speed Foods


Fruit


Babaco
Bilberries
Blackberries
Blackcurrants
Boysenberries
Cranberries
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Guava
Kiwano
Lemons
Limes
Loganberries
Loquats
Melon, except watermelon
Pomelo
Raspberries
Redcurrants
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Tamarillos
Tayberries
White currents
Yellow Plums


Veg & Pulses


Baked beans in tomato sauce
Black Gram Beans
Broad beans
Butter beans
Cannellini Beans
Garden Peas
Mushy Peas
Petis Pois
Sword Beans


Meat & Fish


Tripe
Cod
Coley
Dover Sole
Haddock
John Dory
Lemon Sole
Monkfish
Plaice
Skate
Whiting
Clams
Cockles
Crab, Tinned or fresh
Crayfish
Cuttlefish
Octopus
Oysters
Squid
Whelks
Winkles
Dab
Flounder
Flying fish
Hoki
Ling
Parrot fish
Pollack
Red snapper
Tilapia
 
bilsat said:
Here's my list................

Superfree Food

Apples
Apricots
Carambola (star fruit)
Cashew fruit (not cashew nut)
Cherries
Clementines
Damsons
Elderberries
Feijoa
Figs
Greengages
Grenadilla (fibre)
Kiwi fruit
Kumquats (fibre)
Manderines
Medlars (fibre)
Mulberries
Nectarines
Oranges
Ortaniques (honey tangerines)
Papaya (paw paw)
Passion fruit (fibre)
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums
Prickly pears
Satsumas
Tangerines
Ugli fruit
Watermelon

Amla (indian gooseberry) (fibre)
Bananas
Blueberries
Cape Gooseberry (physalis)
Custard apple (cherimoya)
Grapes
Jambu fruit
Jujube (chinese date)
Lychees
Mammie apple
Mango
Mango
Mangosteen
Persimmon (sharon fruit)
Pomegranets (fibre)
Rambutan
Sapodilla (very high in fibre)

Artichokes (fibre)
Brussels sprout (fibre)
Garlic (fibre)
Water chestnuts (fibre)

Pete’s Super Speed Foods

Fruit

Babaco
Bilberries
Blackberries
Blackcurrants
Boysenberries
Cranberries
Gooseberries
Grapefruit
Guava
Kiwano
Lemons
Limes
Loganberries
Loquats
Melon, except watermelon
Pomelo
Raspberries
Redcurrants
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Tamarillos
Tayberries
White currents
Yellow Plums

Veg & Pulses

Baked beans in tomato sauce
Black Gram Beans
Broad beans
Butter beans
Cannellini Beans
Garden Peas
Mushy Peas
Petis Pois
Sword Beans

Meat & Fish

Tripe
Cod
Coley
Dover Sole
Haddock
John Dory
Lemon Sole
Monkfish
Plaice
Skate
Whiting
Clams
Cockles
Crab, Tinned or fresh
Crayfish
Cuttlefish
Octopus
Oysters
Squid
Whelks
Winkles
Dab
Flounder
Flying fish
Hoki
Ling
Parrot fish
Pollack
Red snapper
Tilapia

Isn't this the same as the book? xx
 
I would probably make an educated guess based on their similairities to other veg. Mooli is a white root isn't it? A bit like a carrot looks wise only quite peppery? Could be completely wrong there!
 
Don't know about speed or superspeed but all veg and fruit, foreign or otherwise, will be free.

As for superfree, unless it is a starchy veg then it'll be superfree too.
 
jaylou said:
Don't know about speed or superspeed but all veg and fruit, foreign or otherwise, will be free.

As for superfree, unless it is a starchy veg then it'll be superfree too.

But not Avocado if any newbies reading :)
 
Thats cos its not fruit or veg. Its devils food. YUK!

Does that make me the devil then *ponders* cos I could live on the things, if they weren't uber bad SW wise that is! Can't remember the last time I did have avocado actually... used to eat tons of them at one point.

*Peers at her fat belly* so THAT'S where you came from! Must have been the avocados, couldn't possibly be the wine ;)
 
They're all free as they're veggies AFAIK? Not sure about tamarind as I think that's a fruit? I've only had it ready-processed so its always had syns and tbh I wouldnt know what to do with it fresh! :D

Dudhi, kerala and tindora are squash/gourds so I don't know why they wouldn't be free. Mooli is a radish so the same. Karela is listed actually, Free. (I swear I saw mooli listed too but cant find it now... maybe it was under another name? :confused: ) Mmm Ive used mooli loads of times as my 1/3 SF with a good old curry & rice, its worked for me :D

Starchy stuff such as eddoes I've just been assuming are similar to potatoes/yams etc? Ive used them as Green or EE only, but I dont know if that's right?

Yow cassava is listed - at 7 syns per 100g! Ouch! :eek: Plantain and yams are on the list already alongside sweetcorn and parsnip ie Green/EE only.
(Mm they seem to have made a mess of yams actually, as theyre listed as Free on EE but if you search for "yam" you get "Yams, raw/cooked without fat, 100g ½ " :confused: )

Thats about all you can get from my Tesco. Anyone else got Interesting Stuff we can try? :)
 
I would probably make an educated guess based on their similairities to other veg. Mooli is a white root isn't it? A bit like a carrot looks wise only quite peppery? Could be completely wrong there!

If you look up the unusual item on something like Wikipedia, you can get an idea of what sort of fruit/vegetable it is.

For instance, mooli (also called daikon) is in fact a type of radish, and radishes are superfree. Also, Wikipedia usually gives nutritional information.

Daikon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Part of the list is from "the book" the rest I found on the Internet!
 
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