I am irrationally angry that they chose a palm tree as the icon to represent the Mediterranean climate region on the map, when it is absolutely not characteristic to this climate. A much better option would have been an olive or an evergreen oak (<i>Quercus ilex</i>): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_ilex" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_ilex</a>
Where I live (south of Europe) you can tell very easily what fruit or vegetables are in season:<p>1. They taste orders of magnitude better compared to when they are not in season (e.g. oranges when sourced from nearby Greece or Turkey, as opposed to ones shipped all the way from South Africa or Australia)<p>2. They are much cheaper to buy on local fruit and vegetable stands. Also, big chains like Lidl or Kaufland run good sales on them as well.
I'm pretty impressed they have Jujube[0] but sad they don't have one of my favourite weird fruits, strawberry tree[1].<p>I wonder if no-one is actually growing them commercially.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo</a>
Kind of depressing how little we can grow in the Uk that I like to eat.<p>Ah well, it’s not like we just put up any massive barriers between the Uk and European trade...
Is this really accurate? Are they counting green houses?<p>Because this tool says Sweden harvests Avocados, blood oranges and grapes in winter.<p>I live in the southern most part of Sweden and I can honestly say I never saw a grape grow in winter.
Cool! In Spain we have a (IMO) much easier to use site: <a href="https://soydetemporada.es" rel="nofollow">https://soydetemporada.es</a>
On the subject of sustainability, I'd always heard the story of eating local, presumably to avoid the environmental impact of transporting food over long distances.<p>It seems that that's insignificant compared to the type of food we eat:<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food#where-do-the-emissions-from-our-food-come-from" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food#whe...</a><p>> Shipping one kilogram of avocados from Mexico to the United Kingdom would generate 0.21kg CO2eq in transport emissions. This is only around 8% of avocados’ total footprint. Even when shipped at great distances, its emissions are much less than locally-produced animal products.
UI Fail -- the Reset button was for me in the habitual place of a Submit button, so I pressed it after making my selections. More problematic on phone when you cannot see the filter results before you fill it out and scroll down.
Why do fruits have such dramatically different seasons?<p>It makes sense to me that some fruits only fruit in summer when there is enough energy, and some that require less energy fruit all year round (e.g. apples).<p>But why does citrus only fruit in the winter? Maybe it exploiting the fact that there aren’t any other fruits at that time, so hungry cold animals will eat them at a greater rate than if they were competing with all the other summer fruits?