A Lexicon of Filipino Fruits and Vegetables (Just Because)

• Bamboo shoots – labong
• Banana – saging
• Bottle gourd – upo
• Cabbage – repolyo
• Calamansi – calamansi
• Cashew nuts – Kasuy
• Cauliflower – koliflor
• Chickpeas – garbansos
• Chico – chico
• Chinese cabbage – pechay Baguio
• “Chinese” peas – chicharo (one of self’s faaaavorite vegetables, growing up in Manila)
• Coconut – niyog
• Corn – mais
• Cucumber – pipino
• Custard apple – atis
• Eggplant – talong
• Fern leaves – pako
• Ginger – luya
• Green snap beans – habichuelas
• Guava – bayabas
• Lanzones – lansones
• Lima bean – patani
• Long cow pea – sitaw
• Mango – mango
• Mangosteen – mangostan
• Melon – melon
• Mung bean – mongo
• Mustard – mustasa
• Papaya – papaya
• Peanut – mani
• Pineapple – piña
• Pomelo – suha
• Potato – patatas
• Santol – santol
• Squash – kalabasa
• Strawberry – stroberi (lol)
• Swamp cabbage – kangkong
• Sweet peppers – sili
• Sweet potato – kamote
• Taro – gabi
• Tomato – kamatis
• Turmeric – luyang dilaw
• Watermelon – pakwan (Dear Departed Sister loved chewing pakwan seeds)
• Yam – ubi (Ubi ice cream is the best!)