Fig

Ficus carica

fruit

The fruit of the fig tree, grown for millennia around the Mediterranean, the only European fig among nearly six hundred mostly tropical species; fresh in summer, dried all year. It provides pectins, calcium and potassium.

Origin

Mediterranean basin and Western Asia

Season (United States)

July to October · grows in your region

Preparation

Everything is eaten; only the stem is cut off. Its skin is eaten, and that is where its polyphenols sit: worth keeping, then — but under running water, rubbing it, which is what takes off most of what settles there, organic or not.

Molecules

Pectins · Calcium · Potassium · Insoluble fibersIn small amounts, not counted Anthocyanins · Vitamin B6 · Plant iron · Magnesium · Copper

Did you know?

A fig is a flower turned inside out: a fleshy pouch holding hundreds of flowers, pollinated by a tiny wasp that enters through a minute opening.