Peach has forever been one of my favourite fruits but since I live in Delhi, it is difficult to come across good quality peaches. I remember the trips that we used to take to the hill stations ended up with me hogging over peaches wherever I saw them. In most of the hotels we used to stay at had peach trees and I used to love picking them and enjoying them as breakfast and evening snacks.
Fresh peaches off the trees have an amazing sweet and acidic flavour combination which remains on the tongue for a while. It smells absolutely delicious.
The peach tree is native to China and was brought to India by the Europeans who in turn had received it from Persia.
The fruit has 10% carbohydrates, 1% protein and negligible fat. The rest of the fruit constitutes water. It is however of not much nutritive value.
