Plum
Plums are garden bushes or trees of rose family. More than one hundred varieties with different fruit sizes (from 6 up to 100 grams), shapes, colors & flavors grow in Europe.
By contrast to apples, available all the year round, plums are consumed only in summer months since July-August till September. They are considered to be seasonal fruit. The main plum exporters to the Russian Federation are Serbia, Moldova, Italy, Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan. Fruit from the CIS countries are sold mostly in open-air markets, while the European fruit are shipped in all supplying channels.
In 2014 the market structure changed. After the import embargo for some fruit crops had been imposed, the most part European import was replaced by the local production or fruit from CIS countries, such as Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan. Russian consumers prefer fruit of red, violet & blue varieties.
Our company represents the local products.
| country | variety | class | size | packaging |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia |
French plum |
1 class | cardboard |
Beneficial features:
| THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE | MICROELEMENTS (100g): | VITAMINS (100 g): |
|---|---|---|
|
Food fibers – 3,6 g Carbohydrates – 11,42 g Proteins – 0,7 g Fat – 0,28 g Energy value: 46 kcal |
Kalium – 157 mg Phosphorus – 16 mg Calcium – 6 mg Magnesium – 7 mg Manganese – 0,052 mg Ferrum – 0,17 mg Cuprum – 0,057 mg Fluorine – 2 mcg Zinc – 0,1 mg |
А — 103,5 mcg |
Varieties:
Hundreds of different varieties of this fruit tree, which allow to get a high crop yield in different climate conditions, are bred nowadays. All popular varieties can be divided into two types: self-fertile & self-sterile.
- Self-fertile varieties are able to produce crops in spite of the close presence of other plums, which pollen them.
- Whereas the self-sterile varieties need a pollinizer near them.
The most popular in European Russia are such varieties, as Tulskaya Chyornaya, Vengerka Moscovskaya, Stanley, Eurasia 21, Kubanskaya Kometa, Renclod Tambovskiy, Alyonushka.
The description of the most popular varieties on the Russian market is below.
- Early-producing plum. This popular variety belongs to the self-sterile type. Its fruit are orange, ball-shaped with tender flavor.
- Blue plum. It has the plenty of varieties and is marked by dark-blue or violet color of ripen fruit. Depending on variety it may be ball-shaped and taste sickeningly sweet or with expressed bitterness. The fruit size may be both small or large.
- Red ball. This variety was bred in China & is grown in Russia while ago. The large fruit, juicy & sweet pulp should be marked among the specialities of this variety.
- The Stenley plum. It’s the classical variety of American breeding. The plums of this variety have sweet taste, typical dark-blue color & cover with waxy bloom while ripen. It’s the main table widely-grown variety, which is often met in retail.
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