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Fruit was an important part of the diet at least for the older people surveyed. Most houses therefore had a good few fruit trees. A strategy was followed consisting of planting more species and having different varieties of each one, which guaranteed there would be sufficient fruit as that would make it difficult for bad weather to affect all the trees as they blossomed and ripened at different times and had different requirements.
The situation has now changed dramatically due to the changes in eating habits as the result of the growing globalisation (trees now grown such as kiwis or persimmons are exotic). Many different types of fruit are now eaten and a wide variety of trees grown as the climate conditions allow.
Fruit is eaten fresh, processed (as desserts, for example baked apples or compotes), preserved (in syrup, jams) or as fermented juices (cider, wine and derivatives) .
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