A stone fruit from the peach family. It's skin is smooth, flushed with a touch of red. The flesh is firm and fragrant. They are juicy and sweet and best eaten when ripe. because the delicate flavour and texture are lost in cooking.

Nori is an edible seaweed, dark green in colour.

The ripe plumlike fruit from the nutmeg tree, dries and splits open. The nutmeg seed (when dried in the sun) is called mace. This can be grated into a dish for added flavour. Once it's grated it loses its most pungent flavour.