Figvariety

Brown Turkey

Taste & texture

For fresh eating, a sound, tender fig can be more enjoyable than one chosen mainly for firmness. Buy fragile ripe fruit close to when you'll eat it.

sensory study · Madera County orchard and Fresno, California, USA · 2006

Read the evidence

In a 2006 tasting with 100 shoppers, four fig cultivars harvested tree-ripe received higher pooled liking and acceptance than fruit picked at commercial maturity. Mean liking was 7.0 versus 5.3 on a nine-point scale.

Fruit tested
Whole fresh figs, two harvest maturities; samples tasted at 20°C
Varieties compared
Mission, Brown Turkey, Calimyrna, Kadota
Use studied
Fresh eating unless otherwise specified
Published
2010

Origin & family

Sources 6

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