Blacklake

Blacklake is the most popular plant that is cultivated for nutrition purposes, because of its unpretentiousness and easily modified genetical structure. Nowadays there is a huge amount of types of blacklakes, with many of them existing as alloys, fused together with other plants for universality.

Overview
Blacklakes are very common plants, growing in virtually all climate zones, sans deserts and subarctic areas. They represent itselves as deciduous trees, usually 7 to 12 ft tall. Wide examples can reach heights of 20 ft.

They start to blossom during the first stage of the green time and fruits are fully formed by the start of the yellow time. While wide blacklake fruits are around 5 in in diameter, cultivated ones tend to be a bit smaller, roughly from 4 to 3.5 in. Reduced size is favoured because of easier consumption.

The exocarp is dark brown, rarely black, the endocarp is light brown, yellow when the fruits are unripe. It is very firm and brittle.

Types of blacklakes
The main type of blacklakes is an original fruit, almost unchanged by any genetical technologies. It is also the most widely consumed blacklake and food in the Home. Its natural chocolate-like flavor and scent remains stably popular around the Homelanders regardless of climate zones.

Blacklakes come in many forms as alloys, one of them being a so-called grain blacklake. In this form it is fused with various cereals and used to cook blacklakemeals and blacklake bran crunchy plates.

Another common alloy is an ointment blacklake, which has a paste-like structure and can be easily distributed over a wide area. They are used to make sandwiches and as a filling in stuffed meals, mostly placed within apples.

Blacklaker
Blacklaker is one of the most popular drink in the Home, which is made of the original blacklakes. The endocarp is processed into a granular powder and mixed with hot water or soy milk, forming a dense, tasty drink, highly favored during the white time.

Production
Blacklake is produced in very high quantities. The cumulative mass of all blacklake types produced per orbital period is 48,308,694,566 lbs.

Nutrition
A typical blacklake fruit's weight is 4.43 N. It provides 5.660 MJ of food energy with a high amount of vitamin C, manganese and iron and an average amount of dietary fiber.

Such high caloric value along with protein, fat and carbohydrates containment are nigh-perfect for supplying the Homelanders' wings with nutrients and energy, which is one of the main reasons of blacklakes' popularity, particulary as a drink during cold white time cycles.