An adulterant is any substance added to a food or dish to increase bulk.
A variety of flushed blushed red, juicy dessert apple raised in England by Laxton Bros in Bedfordshire, as a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Gladstone and introduced commercially in 1929. It is an early-season apple harvested from mid-August in South-East England and has poor storage properties.
Adzuki beans are small, red and shiny, slightly square beans with a white scar or hilum on the side. They are good in salads, mixed with other vegetables and also useful with other ingredients for stuffing because of their size. They are often used in sweet dishes as they have more natural sweetness than other beans. They are the basis of the red bean paste used in dim sum and of Japanese an, and are used a great deal in Chinese and Japanese cuisine, particularly for making sweet pastes. The flour is used in confections and puddings in China and Japan.
The woodapple or elephant apple is a jungle fruit about the size of an orange from India and Sri Lanka. The shell is hard and woody, not surprisingly, and rough grey in appearance. The best way to get into it, rather as for a coconut, is by throwing it onto a concrete floor. It can be eaten raw or mashed with sugar and water to make into sherbets. The pulp is used, grated, with chilli powder, onions, salt and lime juice to make a sour sambal. It is also known as the elephant apple because elephants are thought to consume the woodapple whole. When their droppings are examined they are found to contain whole shells which, when opened, are found to be empty of their contents. Could it be that the elephant digests the pulp without the shell?
A tropical Old World yam with axillary potato-like tubers, some of which are edible after cooking. It is an orange yam plant which grows several bulbils about the size of a large thumb above the ground. They resemble tubers and are very tasty. The underground tuber is not used. It is cultivated in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean and is a weed in the tropics and Florida.
This chocolate bar was invented in 1935. It consists of a series of ridges of milk chocolate filled with bubbles, if that is possible, of aerated chocolate. Latterly the filling might be flavoured with peppermint or orange.
