Peach

Peaches are stone fruits. They generally have a soft, velvety skin, hiding the tasty flesh and a hard stone in the centre.

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The peach is a tasty fruit, which enjoys great popularity in the Netherlands and abroad. This stone fruit is oval to round with a velvety skin. The colour of the skin varies from greenish white to golden yellow with a red blush. The flesh is soft, aromatic and juicy and may be white, yellow or red. Peaches are mainly imported from South Africa, Chile, Spain, Greece, France and Italy.

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Stone fruit

Cherry

Like plums, cherries are referred to as stonefruit because they contain a stone-like pit. There are several different cherry varieties; some are sweet while others are fairly tart.

Plum

The plum is a stone fruit, which grows on plum trees that may grow very tall, with a height of three up to even seven metres. The oval fruit has a stone in its centre.

Nectarine

The nectarine is a mutant of the peach and also a stone fruit, which refers to fruit with skin, flesh and a hard stone at the centre. The nectarine differs from the peach thanks to its skin, which is smooth, rather than velvety.