Talk:Pear

"Pear shaped" linking to an article on female body shapes

it seems strange to me for "pear shaped" (in regards to an actual pear) to link to Female body shape. it is essentially saying that a pear is shaped like a woman who is shaped like a pear, which is not that useful or accurate. Also, the phrase "pear shaped" is not at all prominent in that article. what do you guys think? Neplutondeep (talk) 17:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Origin of the word "pirum"

According to the current text, the origin of the word for pear is given as the Semitic word for fruit, cited as pirâ which is probably meant as an Aramaic word; the corresponding Hebrew word is pərī. But this derivation is impossible, since the [r] is original in these Semitic words, whereas in Latin it is the result of rhotacism from earlier *pisom, corresponding to the early Greek *á-pison. Thus the etymology given in Douglas Harper's Etymonline, that it derives from a lost Mediterranean language, is the best explanation hitherto. Perhaps this fact should be considered in the text? 2001:2003:F44B:2A00:500F:CD9:5150:75B4 (talk) 17:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Nutrition - Sugar content

It would be nice to provide a breakdown of the proportion of different types of sugar, like fructose, sucrose, glucose. Eaberry (talk) 19:15, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

With Special:Diff/1288320294, I modified the nutrition table to include sugars. This list from FoodData Central includes the "general" raw pear data used in the article ('Pears, raw'), as well as other Pyrus species/varietals, which have about the same total and individual sugar contents. It appears that Bosc pears may be a little sweeter (highest fructose content), but sugar contents in any fruit vary according to ripeness, local growing factors, seasonal picking and storage, etc., so sugar content is likely not a very informative characteristic for comparison among different conventionally-grown pears. Zefr (talk) 22:10, 1 May 2025 (UTC)