Fruits and Vegetables A to Z

Name one fruit or vegetable for each letter of the alphabet. The grid shows 25 letter tiles. The letter X is skipped, because no produce starts with it.

The answer list is hidden. It holds about 390 kinds of produce, from the apple to the zucchini, as a cook meets them at the greengrocer.

A correct answer clears the tile and shows the name you typed. A missed letter shows examples on the result screen.

How to play

• Start typing anywhere; the answer bar catches it automatically.
• The game accepts a fruit or a vegetable as soon as you spell it. You do not press Enter.
• Only the current letter matters. Type any fruit or vegetable that starts with that letter.
• Select Skip to move to the next letter. You can come back to a skipped letter later.
• Select Give up to see the full accepted list of every letter you missed and to save your score.

What counts in this quiz

• About 390 fruits and vegetables. Pulses, edible roots and the British and American names both count: aubergine under A and eggplant under E, courgette under C and zucchini under Z.
• The plural counts where people use it: "grapes", "peas", "Brussels sprouts".
• The maximum score is 25, one point per letter.
• The leaderboard ranks the number of letters cleared, then the time.

What's not included, and why

• Nuts, grains, herbs and spices are not in the list. A mushroom is not in the list: a fungus is not a plant.
• Only the exact spelling counts, with the common misspellings added by hand. There is no fuzzy matching.
• A variety counts only where it is a well-known produce name of its own: Victoria plum, Granny Smith is not in the list.

Good to know

• The tomato is a fruit in botany and a vegetable in the kitchen. Here it counts either way.
• The strawberry is not a berry in botany. The banana is.
• The carrot was purple before it was orange. Dutch growers bred the orange carrot in the 17th century.
• Rhubarb is a vegetable that is cooked as a fruit. Its leaves are poisonous.