Fruit preserves with lemon, lime, orange, or raspberry. The basic ingredients are beaten egg yolks, sugar, fruit juice and zest which are gently cooked together until thick and then allowed to cool, forming a soft, smooth, intensely flavored spread. Some recipes also include egg whites or butter. Although the FDA has "Requirements for Specific Standardized Fruit Butters, Jellies, Preserves, and Related Products", there is no specification of the meaning of the term Fruit spread. Although some assert it refers to a jam or preserve with no added sugar, there are many "fruit spreads" by leading manufacturers that do contain added sugar. This
Follicle (fruit) Follicle (fruit) In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds. It is usually defined as dehiscing by a suture in order to release seeds, for example in "Consolida" (some of the larkspurs), peony and milkweed ("Asclepias"). Some difficult cases exist however, so that the term indehiscent follicle is sometimes used, for example with the genus "Filipendula", which has indehiscent fruits that could be considered intermediate between a (dehiscent) follicle and an (indehiscent) achene. An aggregate fruit that consists of follicles may be called a follicetum. Examples include hellebore, aconite, "Delphinium",