The Sinú River valley area is one of the large agricultural marts of the country. There
are in their soils countless products of vegetable consumption, exotic fruits, native
fruits and daily use, vegetables that are sources of nutrients to all populations, and a
variety of tubers that are source of energy to consumers.
Among the great tropical diversity of harvested fruits there are mangoes, papayas,
soursop, mamoncillos, corozo, guavas, cherries, zapotes, nisperos, caimito, passion
fruit, guamas, melons, among many others; as vegetables there are cucumbers,
lettuce, aubergines, ahuyamas, pumpkins and tubers, cassava, yams, sweet potato
etc. There is a lack of registers of scientific aspects of some species of fruits and
vegetables, which are little known or almost unknown often exist only knowledge of
the source region; this project seeks to identify the species and varieties of plants
that are used fresh for human consumption, a field of investigation accompanied
by production control, quality control and analysis of its components in order to
give industry outreach was held in possible to transform these plant products to
accompany regional development. The physicochemical and sensory characteristics
of each fruit, vegetable and tuber found in the area of Cordoba, also in the aspects
related to the production area, fresh consumption, processing levels, characteristics
of the raw material, in this study and it became a scan.