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Fruit are the means by which angiosperms disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and other animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; humans, and many other animals, have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.

In common language and culinary usage, fruit normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet (or sour) and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term fruit also includes many structures that are not commonly called as such in everyday language, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.

Many common language terms used for fruit and seeds differ from botanical classifications. For example, in botany, a fruit is a ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds, e.g., an orange, pomegranate, tomato or a pumpkin. A nut is a type of fruit (and not a seed), and a seed is a ripened ovule.

In culinary language, a fruit is the sweet- or not sweet- (even sour-) tasting produce of a specific plant (e.g., a peach, pear or lemon); nuts are hard, oily, non-sweet plant produce in shells (e.g. hazelnut, acorn). Vegetables, so-called, typically are savory or non-sweet produce (e.g. zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato). But some may be sweet-tasting (sweet potato).

Examples of botanically classified fruit that are typically called vegetables include cucumber, pumpkin, and squash (all are cucurbits); beans, peanuts, and peas (all legumes); and corn, eggplant, bell pepper (or sweet pepper), and tomato. Many spices are fruits, botanically speaking, including black pepper, chili pepper, cumin and allspice. In contrast, rhubarb is often called a fruit when used in making pies, but the edible produce of rhubarb is actually the leaf stalk or petiole of the plant. Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts.

Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat is a kind of fruit (termed a caryopsis). However, the fruit wall is thin and fused to the seed coat, so almost all the edible grain-fruit is actually a seed.

he outer layer, often edible, of most fruits is called the pericarp. Typically formed from the ovary, it surrounds the seeds; in some species, however, other structural tissues contribute to or form the edible portion. The pericarp may be described in three layers from outer to inner, i.e., the epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Fruit that bear a prominent pointed terminal projection is said to be beaked

Consistent with the three modes of fruit development, plant scientists have classified fruits into three main groups: simple fruits, aggregate fruits, and multiple (or composite) fruits. The groupings reflect how the ovary and other flower organs are arranged and how the fruits develop, but they are not evolutionarily relevant as diverse plant taxa may be in the same group.

Simple fruit are the result of the ripening-to-fruit of a simple or compound ovary in a single flower with a single pistil. In contrast, a single flower with numerous pistils typically produces an aggregate fruit; and the merging of several flowers, or a 'multiple' of flowers, results in a 'multiple' fruit. A simple fruit is further classified as either dry or fleshy.

Berries are a type of simple fleshy fruit that issue from a single ovary. (The ovary itself may be compound, with several carpels.) The botanical term true berry includes grapes, currants, cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), tomatoes, chilli peppers, and bananas, but excludes certain fruits that are called "-berry" by culinary custom or by common usage of the term – such as strawberries and raspberries. Berries may be formed from one or more carpels (i.e., from the simple or compound ovary) from the same, single flower. Seeds typically are embedded in the fleshy interior of the ovary.

Aggregate Fruit, also called an aggregation, or etaerio; develops from a single flower that presents numerous simple pistils. Each pistil contains one carpel; together, they form a fruitlet. The ultimate (fruiting) development of the aggregation of pistils is called an aggregate fruit, etaerio fruit, or simply an etaerio.

Hybrid fruit are created through the controlled speciation of fruits that creates new varieties and cross-breeds. Hybrids are grown using plant propagation to create new cultivars. This may introduce an entirely new type of fruit or improve the properties of an existing fruit.

Accessory Fruit Fruit may incorporate tissues derived from other floral parts besides the ovary, including the receptacle, hypanthium, petals, or sepals. Accessory fruits occur in all three classes of fruit development – simple, aggregate, and multiple. Accessory fruits are frequently designated by the hyphenated term showing both characters. For example, a pineapple is a multiple-accessory fruit, a blackberry is an aggregate-accessory fruit, and an apple is a simple-accessory fruit.

A large variety of fruits – fleshy (simple) fruits from apples to berries to watermelon; dry (simple) fruits including beans and rice and coconuts; aggregate fruits including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pawpaw; and multiple fruits such as pineapple, fig, mulberries – are commercially valuable as human food. They are eaten both fresh and as jams, marmalade and other fruit preserves. They are used extensively in manufactured and processed foods (cakes, cookies, baked goods, flavourings, ice cream, yogurt, canned vegetables, frozen vegetables and meals) and beverages such as fruit juices and alcoholic beverages (brandy, fruit beer, wine). Spices like vanilla, black pepper, paprika, and allspice are derived from berries. Olive fruit is pressed for olive oil and similar processing is applied to other oil-bearing fruits and vegetables. Some fruits are available all year round, while others (such as blackberries and apricots in the UK) are subject to seasonal availability.

Typically, many botanical fruits – "vegetables" in culinary parlance – (including tomato, green beans, leaf greens, bell pepper, cucumber, eggplant, okra, pumpkin, squash, zucchini) are bought and sold daily in fresh produce markets and greengroceries and carried back to kitchens, at home or restaurant, for preparation of meals.

The alphabetical list of all the fruit-based recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 6673 recipes in total:

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Date Chutney      Origin: India	Diabetic Cheesecake      Origin: American	Domoda II      Origin: Gambia
Date Loaf      Origin: Britain	Diabetic Cherry Cheesecake      Origin: American	Domoda III      Origin: Gambia
Date Pasty      Origin: England	Diet Lemon-flavoured Snapple Iced Tea      Origin: American	Dongouésde bananes plantain à la morue et lait de coco (Plantain Dongoués with Salt Cod and Coconut Milk)      Origin: Martinique
Date Sauce      Origin: Niger	Different Sorts of Sauce for a Hare      Origin: British	Dorada con coco mozambiqueño (Miozambican Gilt-head Bream with Coconut)      Origin: Mozambique
Date Yoghurt Smoothie      Origin: American	Dijon-glazed Corned Beef      Origin: Ireland	Dornoch Dreams      Origin: Scotland
Dates Alexandrine      Origin: Roman	Dill Piccata Sauce      Origin: France	Doro Alicha      Origin: Ethiopia
Dau Khuon Xao Lan (Curried Tofu Stir-fry)      Origin: Vietnam	Dill Pilaf      Origin: Azerbaijan	Double Apple Smoothie      Origin: American
Daube de Banane Plantains (Daube de Banane)      Origin: Seychelles	Dinca 'Fala (Apple Cake)      Origin: Welsh	Double Bean and Roasted Pepper Chili      Origin: Britain
Daube de Manioc au Lait de Coco (Cassava Stew with Coconut Milk)      Origin: Seychelles	Diod Dail Poethion a Cedowrach (Nettle and Burdock Drink)      Origin: Welsh	Double Blackcurrant Cheesecake      Origin: Britain
Daurade Grillée Sénégalaise (Grilled Sea Bream, Senegalese Style)      Origin: Senegal	Diod Sinsir Lemwn (Lemon Ginger Beer)      Origin: Welsh	Double Blueberry Cheesecake      Origin: Britain
Daylily Fritters      Origin: Britain	Diod Sinsir Rhiwbob (Rhubarb Ginger Beer)      Origin: Welsh	Double Chocolate Puddings      Origin: New Zealand
Deccan Chicken Curry      Origin: Sri Lanka	Diod Sinsir, Rhiwbob a Dail Gwyllt (Ginger, Rhubarb and Wild Greens Drink)      Origin: Welsh	Double ka Meetha      Origin: India
Decorated Simnel Cake      Origin: Britain	Divinity Nut Candy      Origin: American	Double Melon Smoothie      Origin: American
Deep Fried Coconut King Prawns      Origin: Britain	Djed b'l-Qasbour (Chicken and Olive Stew)      Origin: Algeria	Dover Sole á la Meuniere      Origin: France
Deep Fried Sweet Potato Balls      Origin: India	Djerba-style Grilled Prawns      Origin: Tunisia	Dresdner Stollen      Origin: Germany
Deep-fried Sweetbreads      Origin: British	Djibouti Banana Fritters      Origin: Djibouti	Dress-up Dress-down Meatloaf      Origin: Australia
Déguè II      Origin: Senegal	Djindjan (Guinean Ginger Juice)      Origin: Guinea	Dressed Crab      Origin: Canada
Delhi Pudding      Origin: British	Doce de Coco (Cape Verdean Coconut Candy)      Origin: Cape Verde	Dried Apples      Origin: Britain
Delicious Milk Lemonade      Origin: British	Doce de Leite (Sweet Lemon Buttermilk)      Origin: Cape Verde	Dried Apples      Origin: British
Devil's Steak Sauce      Origin: American	Doce de Papaia (Sweet Papaya Preserve)      Origin: Mozambique	Dried Apricots      Origin: British
Devilled Duck Liver and Wilding Apple      Origin: Britain	Doce de Papaia (Papaya Preserves)      Origin: Sao Tome	Dried Barberries      Origin: Britain
Devilled Oysters      Origin: British	Dock Rissoles      Origin: Ancient	Dried Cornelian Cherries      Origin: Britain
Devilled White-bait      Origin: British	Dolma (Stuffed Grape Leaves)      Origin: Azerbaijan	Dried Cornelian Cherry Soup      Origin: British
Devils on Horseback      Origin: Britain	Dombrés Poulet (Chicken Dombres)      Origin: Martinique	Dried Currants      Origin: Britain
Dewberry Jelly      Origin: Britain	Dominica Calypso Chicken      Origin: Dominica	Dried Fish Bharta      Origin: Anglo-Indian
Dewberry Muffins      Origin: Britain	Dominica Reef Chicken      Origin: Dominica	Dried Fruit Custard Crumble Pie      Origin: American
Dewberry Sorbet      Origin: Britain	Dominica Saltfish Accra      Origin: Dominica	Dried Haddocks      Origin: British
Dhaktyla (Ladies' Fingers)      Origin: Cyprus	Dominica Sancocho      Origin: Dominica	Dried Pears      Origin: Britain
Dhal with Hogweed Shoots      Origin: Britain	Dominica Spicy Guacamole      Origin: Dominica	Dried Rose Apple Tea      Origin: China
Dhallo Black Curry (Cuttlefish Black Curry)      Origin: Sri Lanka	Dominica Titiwi Accra      Origin: Dominica	Dried Rose Hip Custard Crumble Pie      Origin: American
Dhaltjies (Cape Malay Chilli Bites)      Origin: South Africa	Dominican Hot Pepper Sauce      Origin: Dominica	Dried Rose Hip Ice Cream      Origin: British
Dhan Saag Dhal      Origin: India	Dominican Mango Chutney      Origin: Dominica	Dried Rose Hip Soup      Origin: British
Dhania Chicken (Coriander Chicken)      Origin: India	Dominican Mountain Chicken      Origin: Dominica
Dhiafora Parayiemista (Mixed Stuffed Vegetables)      Origin: Cyprus	Dominican Souse      Origin: Dominica

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