Frutta e verdura

Frutta e verdura is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1973 by PDU and originally distributed by EMI Italiana as a double album along with Amanti di valore. This pair of albums spent eight consecutive weeks at the first place of the Italian chart.

Personnel

 * Mina – vocals
 * Pino Presti – arrangement (A1, A4–B5), bass, piano, Rhodes piano
 * Dario Baldan Bembo – arrangement (A2)
 * Natale Massara – arrangement (A3)
 * Nuccio Rinaldis – sound engineering
 * Mario Carulli – recording (A3)
 * Massimo Verardi – acoustic guitar, mandolin
 * Dino Comolli's "I musicals" – backing vocals
 * Renè Mantegna – conga
 * Tullio De Piscopo – drums
 * Andrea Sacchi – electric and acoustic guitar
 * Sergio Farina (musician) – electric guitar
 * Hugo Heredia – flute
 * Victor Bacchetta – piano, Hammond organ
 * Oscar Valdambrini – trumpet
 * Al Korvin – trumpet
 * Fermo Lini – trumpet
 * Giuliano Bernicchi – trumpet
 * Sergio Almangano – violin
 * Arturo Prestipino Giarritta – violin
 * Dino Comolli – whistling (A4)
 * Mauro Balletti – photography
 * Luciano Tallarini – artwork, design

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Cover versions
Some of the songs of this album have been recorded in different languages by Mina during the 1970s. "Non tornare più" was covered and released in French ("Les oiseaux reviennent") in a 1974 as a single. "Devo tornare a casa mia" was covered in 1975 in Spanish, "Debo volver ya con los mios", as well as "Questo sì, questo no" ("Esto sì, esto no"). "Domenica sera" has three different versions: in Spanish ("Domingo a la noche"), in German ("Die Liebe am Sonntag") and in English ("Don't Ask Me To Love You"). "E poi..." was recorded in other four languages: English ("Runaway"), Spanish ("¿Y que?""), french ("Et puis ça sert à quoi") and German ("Und dann"). There is also versions of the song in 1992 album Sorelle Lumière, in which the song was mixed with Riccardo Cocciante's "Un nuovo amico".