Metaglossary.com - Definitions for "{term}"

Keywords: plum, pickle, salty, shiso, apricot

A salt-pickled fruit, a member of the apricot family. It is highly regarded for its salty-sour flavor and its medicinal qualities. It is powerfully alkalizing. PICTURE

geocities.com

Salted, pickled ume. A fruit similar to apricots.

cookinginjapan2.blogspot.com

Salty, pickled plums. Umeboshi plums stimulate the appetite and aid in maintaining an alkaline blood quality. Shiso leaves are usually added to the plums during pickling to impart a reddish colour and natural flavouring.

macrobiotics.co.uk

(”~Š±‚µ) Umeboshi are pickled plums, usually eaten with steamed white rice. Incredibly salty and sour, many non-Japanese find them difficult to eat at first, but the taste does grow on you after a while. Eating umeboshi is also rumored to have various health benefits such as helping you to recover from fatigue, and purifying your blood.

zapiper.home.comcast.net

Pickled Japanese plums. It is extremely sour.

japanesefood.about.com

Pickled plum.

suisan.com

Dried and very salty plums that are colored with a shiso leaf to a lovely pink. The are very alkaline and go well with rice.

chefkati.com

is a salted plum pickled in sea salt and shiso leaves. These plums may be eaten whole or used as a paste or vinegar for cooking. Umeboshi helps to normalize digestion & is especially helpful in reducing stomach acidity.

realfood.com

Umeboshi (Japanese: ; literally "pickled ume") are a type of traditional Japanese pickle, known as tsukemono, and are very popular in Japan.

en.wikipedia.org

View 6 more results