The distinctive fuzz affects everything from taste to susceptibility to disease.
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What's the Difference Between Peaches and Nectarines | Produce Made Simple
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My summer isn’t complete until I’ve devoured a ripe juicy peach sitting by the kitchen sink. It’s a moment I look forward to all year long and I savor every bite of the fruit: the soft flesh and yes even the soft hairy rind. I consider the latter an essential part of the peach-eating experience although many are downright put off by a hairy peach. My advice to those people? Seek out its hairy counterpart: the nectarine.
A nectarine is essentially a peach that’s naked but it turns out that going naked has a few other important effects on the fruit. Peaches and nectarines differ in flavor size disease susceptibility and where they’re grown as multiple experts told me. And while peach fuzz—or lack thereof—may seem like a superficial trait it plays a role in all those other important differences too.
