Seasonal Food

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Seasonality of food refers to the times of year when a given type food is at its peak, either in terms of harvest or its flavour. This is usually the time when the item is the cheapest and the freshest on the market.

The food's peak time in terms of harvest usually co-incides with when its flavour is at its best. There are some exceptions; an example being sweet potatoes which are best eaten quite a while after harvest.

This page serves as a guide to the seasonality of food. The list below is for foods common in the Northern Hemisphere.

Contents

Spring

Vegetables

  • Artichoke
  • Bamboo shoot
  • Onion
  • Celery
  • Spinach
  • Radish
  • Rhubarb
  • Carrots
  • Kale
  • Watercress
  • Samphire
  • Asparagus
  • Cauliflower
  • New potato
  • Parsley

Fruit

  • Raspberry

Meat

  • Lamb

Seafood

  • Red sea bream
  • Japanese Clam
  • Flying fish
  • Skipjack tuna
  • Japanese Kokanee
  • Salangidae
  • Sardines
  • Cockles

Summer

Vegetables

Eggplant, Green Bean, Baby Turnip, Courgette, Bell Pepper, Samphire, Basil, Cannellini bean, Trompettes de Mort, Broad Bean, Runner bean, Swiss Chard, Peas, New potato, Tomato, Borlotti bean, Sweetcorn cobs, Chanterelle (mushrooms), Cucumber, Okra, Bitter melon

Fruit

Cherry, Greenguages, Blackberries, Nectarines, Apricot, Mango, Victoria Plums, Watermelon, Fig, Strawberry, Peach, Rhubarb, Blackcurrant, Raspberry, Walnut, Cantaloupe Melon, Ume

Seafood

Soft shell crab, Crayfish, Sea Bass, Sea Trout, Sardines, Clams, Skipjack tuna, Aji, Rainbow trout, Ayu, Unagi (Japanese eel, Pacific jumping squid, hamo, John Dory

Game

Grouse, Hare

Autumn (Fall)

Vegetable

  • Carrot
  • Chestnut
  • Pumpkin
  • Sweet potato
  • Lettuce
  • Renkon
  • Turnip
  • Shiitake mushrooms

Fruit

  • Apple
  • Pear
  • Grape
  • Fig

Seafood

  • Mackerel
  • Salmon
  • Oyster
  • Pacific saury

Game

  • Big game, e.g. deer, elk, moose, etc.

Winter

Vegetables

  • Carrot
  • Daikon
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Swede (or Rutabaga)
  • Celeriac
  • Turnip
  • Brussel Sprout
  • Pumpkin
  • Beetroot
  • Parsnip
  • Red Cabbage
  • Leek
  • Cabbage
  • Shallot

Fruits

  • Pear
  • Tangerine

Game

  • Duck
  • Goose

Seafood

  • Sea bass (Grouper)
  • Scallop
  • Pacific yellowtail
  • Pacific cod
  • Monkfish
  • Halibut
  • Lobster
  • Mussels
  • Samosa
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