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Nectarine
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High water and potassium make it genuinely cooling in hot weather.
Read the whole guide on one page →The orange flesh carries carotenoids (the orange and yellow plant pigments your body can use) for skin and eyes.
A medium fruit is about 60 calories with 2 g of fibre: sweet without consequence.
A nectarine is simply a peach with one gene switched off — the one that makes the fuzz. Iran has grown both for over a thousand years. Shalil reaches the market with the worst of the summer heat, and eating one chilled in the afternoon is the standard answer to it.
Known to botanists as Prunus persica var. nucipersica.