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[edit] Constistency Police

This has to be fixed. The Article is called ZUCCHINI yet it calls them corguettes in the middle. for a reference point, that's like calling orange "yellow-red" in the middle of the article. This is going to be changed for consistency, as it is very rough. Change it back if you want to, but please, don't. calling something by another name can be quite confusing when it switches back and forth. Sneakernets 23:39, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

so now, what is it called in Canada, Singapore, and other English speaking places?

I live in Canada and we call them Zucchinis, but where I live (in Rural South western ontario) they aren't very popular and a lot of people I know probably dont have a clue as to what a zucchini is in the first place.70.49.42.37 4 July 2005 15:02 (UTC)

// I didn't know the things in the north uk as a child, though now they're common. I believe "courgette" is a used a fair bit more more than "zucchini", though the latter word will be well know by the food-snob middle-classes (I don't know what people who haven't a clue would call them).

Maybe, if by "food snob" you mean "North American" :). (Around here they're just called "zukes", rhymes with the "cukes" in the photo.) SB Johnny 00:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Boooooo! This article should definitely be under "courgette" rather than zucchini, since everyone knows this is its true name. (Although I must admit zucchini is a pretty cool word, but then so is courgette so Shut up, noisy man!)

Courgette is defintenately the coorect English term. Zucchini is borrowed from Italian, much like chickpeas are called "garbanzo" or broad beans are called "fava" due to Italians.67.169.43.113 08:39, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

This plant as it is known today was bred in Italy from American breeding stock. Considering this, I believe zucchini is likely to be the original term for the plant as it was Italy that introduced it to the rest of Europe and indeed, even to North America where squash has its origins. -RebelWithoutASauce

"In Mexico, zucchini is often used for a light cream soup, sopa de flor de calabaza, and it is quite popular in a variation of the traditional quesadillas, becoming quesadillas de flor de calabaza. Zucchini is also used in a variety of other dishes (rajas), and as a side dish ornament." This is not correct at all. The sopa de flor de calabaza is made with the flower, not with the zucchini. And the quesadillas are also made with just the flower. Zucchini is used in other dishes (like calabacitas and elote = zucchini and corn cooked with onions and tomato sauce) but definitely not as rajas. Rajas are basically stripes of chile, the ones served in quesadillas are from chile poblano, which is combined a lot with flor de calabaza in enchiladas and crepas. Also, I don't recall seeing zucchini as a side dish ornament, maybe a couple of times in some fancy restaurants but it is certainly not the norm. Andrea Reyes (Mexico City & The Hague) March 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.140.21.231 (talk) 22:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nutrition

"1/2 cup of zucchini also contains 19% of the recommended amount of Manganese, which activates the body's fat burning enzymes, resulting in a faster metabolism." There is no source for this statement. RebelWithoutASauce

[edit] Vegetable or fruit?

The article states both:

  • "Zucchini (US and Australian English) or courgette (New Zealand and British English) is a vegetable" and;
  • "the flower (known as Flor de Calabaza) is preffered over the fruit"

Is the courgette/zucchini (as in the part normally eaten) a fruit or a vegetable, or am I misunderstanding what the article is saying? Leithp 14:57, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Nothing wrong with that. See vegetable -- vegetables can be any part of a plant, including the fruit. --Russell E 13:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

fruit is a the result of the fertile part of the plant producing a seed containing unit, as in fleshy fruits, dry fruits are slightly different. a vegetable, should technically refer only vegetative portions of a plant. while the zucchini should be classified as a fruit, it is sometimes lumped with vegetables because of the lack of sugar compared to more typical "fruits" likes apples and oranges. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.49.21.34 (talk) 01:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

About 3/4 of the green zucchini-like things in the image are actually cucumbers... perhaps it would be worth a new photo. --Russell E 13:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Misleading photo, true.

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I agree, the market photo is definetely misleading and should be replaced.



Can we get information on how physically big it is?

I've never seen one of these fruit in my supermarket in the UK and I can't tell how big (or small) it is.

--Quatermass 10:36, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] New Photo

As chance would have it, I've had to buy 2 Zucchinis or Courgettes as we call them in the UK. So I've uploaded a picture of them before I got stuck into them.

Enjoy.

--Quatermass 21:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] It may be a fruit

We all know that tomato is a fruit for a long time, but that's because there are seeds within a tomato. So does zucchini and other squashes. I'm not spamming or anything, but apples and any so-called "vegetable" (like tomato) with seed(s) inside are fruits. How can we find sources of it? —Gh87 02:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] intro

It seems to me that the intro section of the article (the bit before the Table of Contents) is awfully long. Could any of it be moved to the body of the article (the bit after the Table of Contents)? 64.216.106.158 14:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Start in California?

> It was almost certainly brought over by Italian immigrants, and probably got its start in California.

Does this imply that it got its start in agriculture in California, or that it first arrived there via Italian immigrants... in California? Seems like an odd first stop for Italian immigrants in that time period... --babbage 03:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Sneak some zucchini onto your neighbor's porch night

under the miscellaneous information there is mention about joke about farmers having too much zucchini, so why not mention the holiday related to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.49.21.34 (talk) 01:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)