I chose to write about fruit ‘n’ veg because you so often see magical properties of herbs, but these babies get left behind, and are a great resource, especially for kitchen witches.
Apple: red apples for love; gold apples for fame and popularity; green apples for prosperity.
Apricot: rejuvenation, love, longevity, healing; use in love spells to heal and reunite a couple whose relationship is on the rocks.
Artichoke: protection, use to get to the heart of a matter (peel away leaves to the heart).
Asparagus: power, protection, sexual stamina.
Avocado: glamours, love, lust.
Banana: protection (especially for travel), sexual stamina, fertility, prosperity.
Beans: butter beans to reduce stress, canary beans for happiness and success in the arts, black eyed peas for luck and psychic vision, fava beans for power, chickpeas for conquest, green beans for prosperity, red kidney beans for wisdom/love/healing.
Beetroot: prosperity, longevity, conquest, love. Juice may substitute for blood.
Blackberry: list, brings out the darker side of sex and sexuality (use sparingly), healing, wealth, protection.
Blueberry: protection, strengthen aura, strengthen determination.
Broccoli: protects against disease, protection, prosperity.
Brussels Sprouts: prosperity, protection, peace.
Cabbage: white for spiritual wholeness, green for prosperity, purple for power, red for love.
Carrot: psychic vision, lust, energy, willpower, fertility.
Cauliflower: protection, calms tempers.
Celery: communication, male virility, love.
Cherry: happiness, love. Juice may substitute for blood.
Corn: prosperity, protection, love.
Cranberry: can bond people together or tear them apart depending on how you use it.
Cucumber: alleviates stress and calms the mind, rejuvenation, glamours, lust, fertility.
Date: psychic cleanser, conquest, love.
Eggplant: wisdom/insight, purple for power and strength, white for purification and protection.
Elderberry: psychic protection, fidelity, spirit summoning, blessings, healing.
Fig: healing, peace, prosperity, happiness, fertility, creativity, protection.
Grapefruit: protection, uplifting, confidence.
Grapes: green for prosperity, purple for psychic and magical power, red for love and list and fertility.
Guava: fertility, sex, wealth, creativity.
Honeydew: love, marriage.
Horseradish: male virility, sex, fertility, purification, exorcism.
Kiwi: love, sex, prosperity.
Leek: exorcism, purification, protection, conquest.
Lemon; purification, love, beauty, longevity.
Lettuce: dark leafed for abundance, iceberg for calming, red leafed for employment; a money and prosperity vegetable.
Line: induce jealousy, command and compelling, release inhibitions, healing, protection.
Mandarin: cheerfulness, relaxation, calming, friendship.
Mango: love, sex, protection.
Mulberry: insight, inspiration, focus clarity, increased magical awareness, good for premonitions and precognitive abilities, protection.
Mushroom: illusions, glamours, love, psychic power.
Nuts: communication, money, luck, love, joy, produce quick results. Almonds for love; walnuts for prosperity and employment; peanuts to prevent poverty; pine nuts for lust; hazelnuts for wisdom; pistachio for love; pecans for prosperity; chestnuts for love and wisdom; cashews for luck and love; Brazil nuts for love.
Olive: wisdom, longevity, protection, prosperity, peace, fertility.
Onion: red for lust; white to clear obstacles; purple for power and seduction; yellow to dispel anger. Also healing, protection, exorcism.
Orange: prosperity, love, passion, creativity, luck.
Papaya: sex, fertility, wealth, lust, protection.
Parsnip: grounding, centring, prosperity.
Passionfruit: fertility.
Pea: peace, prosperity, beauty, love.
Peach: fidelity, happiness, longevity, love, protection, exorcism.
Pear: health, longevity, wisdom, protection, lust, love.
Persimmon: powerful fruit of luck for LGBT people.
Pineapple: prosperity, fidelity, luck.
Plum: summoning, spontaneity, love, protection.
Pomegranate: wealth, fertility, wisdom, luck.
Potato: sympathetic magic, protection, hearing.
Prune: longevity, beauty, clears obstacles.
Pumpkin: spirit honouring, protection from spirits, fertility, wealth.
Quince: love, protection, happiness.
Radish: red for love; white for spiritual protection.
Raisin: wisdom, longevity.
Raspberry: protection, courage, fun, playfulness, love.
Rhubarb: fidelity, protection, peace, happiness.
Scallion: communication, prevents misunderstandings.
Spinach: health, prosperity, energy, strength.
Strawberry: love, luck, infidelity.
Tangerine: love, cleansing.
Tomato: seduction, passion, love, prosperity, protection. Is a nightshade, so can be used in curses.
Turnip: cleansing, banishing, removes obstacles in love life, protection.
Watermelon: infidelity, luck.
Yam: summoning, love.
Zucchini: sex, fidelity, protection, prosperity.
Sources: Encyclopedia of Magical Ingredients by Lexa Rosean; Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham; The Real Witches’ Kitchen by Kate West; my own Grimoire.
