PEACH IN PIECES

Dehydrated - Sweetened Tropical Fruit
	PEACH IN PIECES Name in Spanish: Durazno en trozos Name in Latin: Prunus persica zoom

ASPECT AND DESCRIPTION Really the peach is originating of China, in which it is known as " tao " that symbolizes " love and beauty"; at present in the occidental culture this bear fruit also is related with the beauty since to a beautiful skin is compared popularly with the skin of the peach. Common noun of a caducifolio tree of the family of the rosaceous that produces the peach call melocoton or peach. The tree, that the botanists consider native of Chinese, is cultivated in all the template regions and subtropical of the world. The flowers sprout before the leaves, they appear alone or in doubles. The chalice is bell-shaded, with five lobed sepals; the petals are colored rosette and the worsteds are formed up in several verticils. The leaves are lanceolated with the serrated border. They have stipules that fall very soon.
The fruit is drupe type, it has the seed shut in a bone covered for pulp; this one is fleshy and juicy, of flavor excellent when it is ripe; its skin is smooth and velvety. The tree is of moderate altitude, its portage extends more or less according to the variety, and forms deep roots if it grows without humanize intervention. The common classification of the variety according to the tendency of the pulp to adhere itself to the bone or to separate itself with facility of it, is not absolutely exact, but very variable; it has enclosed variety that produce fruits of easy separation to the bone in a station and sticking pulp in the other. The almost 300 variety have grouped in five cracks, every one of them with characteristics, ripeness station and applications own.
HISTORY Alejandro Magno was who took the Tao tree to Persia where it is spread to all Europe and of that region sprang up the scientific name that at present identifies to this plant.
CULINARY USE It can be consumed directly like a sugary fruit being very tasty when it is mixed with semi hard cheeses. It can also be consumed swamplands with chocolate or integrating the cubes of fruits in puddings and sweet bread. If it is boiled and mixed with other fruits of the same type can be obtained very delicious compotes. Small pieces can be added to ice creams, cake fillings and exotic foods, accompanying several meats while they are cooked in casseroles and they leave juice during the cooking.