Delicate Sweet Apricot

Sweetness

Sweetness is a basic taste most commonly perceived when eating foods rich in sugar. Sweet tastes are generally regarded as pleasurable. In addition to sugars like sucrose, many other chemical compounds are sweet, including aldehydes, ketones, and sugar alcohols. Some are sweet at very low concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Such non-sugar sweeteners include saccharin, aspartame, sucralose and stevia. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.

Apricot

An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus. Usually an apricot is from the species Prunus armeniaca, but the fruits of the other species in Prunus sect. Armeniaca are also called apricots. In 2023, world production of apricots was 3.7 million tonnes, led by Turkey with 20% of the total.

Apricot (color)

Apricot is a light yellowish-orangish color that is similar to the color of apricots. However, it is paler than actual apricots.

delicate

Adjective

1. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
2. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.

Noun

1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
2. A choice dainty; a delicacy.

sweet

Adjective

1. Tasting of sugars.
2. Retaining a portion of sugar.

Interjection

1. Used as a positive response to good news or information.

apricot

Noun

1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

Adjective

1. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.