1. Breadfruit

When I was driving on Oshima, I noticed that there was often a big tree on the side of the road with leaves similar to the big open palm shape of the turtle back bamboo. The canopy is thick with green fruit hanging like jackfruit, but rounder and about the size of a baby's head. Later, I went to Kauai Island, passed a fruit stand, and the boss just cut a skin that looked at the fruit that was bad. After tasting it, I was surprised to know that this is the ripe green fruit, bread fruit, and immediately bought the rest of the one. According to the boss, the green unripe fruit can be boiled and fried, just like potatoes, which can be eaten as a staple food.
This is the dream love fruit!! CC TV6 when I was little! The African savanna! It grows on trees! Breadfruit!! Although the cooking is not good, but we are brave to try hahaha.

This ripe fruit has a very unremarkable skin, but it has a rich sweet smell. When I cut it open, I was so happy that there was only one pit! What fairy fruit! You dig it with a spoon, it's like ice cream, it's very smooth, it has a very strong tropical fruit aroma, I think it's like guava+ jackfruit, pure sweet and creamy. My mom thinks it tastes like jackfruit and durian, but it doesn't smell like durian. In short, two people are very love on it! This fruit is available all year round, on every island in Hawaii. But it's only available at street stalls. I've found a few at the supermarket. I suggest you have a chance to try it! Much better than a chocolate persimmon.

Oahu Island Cultural Center buffet door (that is, the entrance of the big buffet building) door is full of wood carving bread fruit, passing friends can go to look for feelings after this became the first to Hawaii, after papaya longan must eat fruit.

What we know so far

1. There is a faint fragrance when eaten raw.

2. It has a healthy version of French fries without any special flavor.

3. The air fryer baked out, with the frying seems to be no difference is not need to wash the pot, cooked inside the surface, the outside crisp, pipi, light sweet, a little above this always feel very familiar.

4. Boiled ➕ coconut meat, can not find fresh coconut meat 🥲 only coconut meat at home, bread fruit cooked soft waxy waxy! With coconut flakes, it suddenly feels like a perfect match, and you can buy it next time you come across it. It's been in the fridge for a few days and when you cut it, it doesn't change at all. It looks like it lasts a long time.

5. Boil with lots of sugar! This becomes sweet! Very good too! Fell in love with this thing hahaha, there is a light fragrance, that is the feeling of southern fruit.

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2. Yellow Dragon Fruit/Bird's Nest Fruit

Bird's nest is definitely the best fruit I've had in a while. At first glance, this thing looks very powerful, golden and bright and has the shape of dragon fruit, but if you look at it again, you will give a feeling of "just yellow dragon fruit". However, in taste, neither white nor red dragon fruit can compare with this golden bird's nest fruit. The fruit is sour and sweet, much sweeter than ordinary apple pears, and the juice has a strong honey taste, refreshing and juicy.

Compared to most exotic tropical fruits, bird's nest actually doesn't have much of a distinctive aroma, nor does it have the green flavor of dragon fruit, rather like lychee or a very well-ripened but crisp melon. Very ripe bird's nest fruit will also have a slight aroma of vanilla. This feeling I thought for a long time also did not find a good metaphor, until I saw this seemingly very contrived Chinese name to feel, oh, hard to metaphor, the most like bird's nest.

In taste, the bird's nest fruit is basically similar to the dragon fruit, with a lot of water and a little more solid than the dragon fruit. The only thing to notice is that the seeds are slightly larger than dragon fruit, although they are also crisp and crunchy, and the inside of the seeds can be a bit bitter if you chew them too much, with a hint of herbs or moss, but this is not a problem, as long as you don't chew them all the time.

This fruit originated in Colombia, the price in the United States is not low, more than 4-8 US dollars/pound, because I really like the taste, some time ago also on Taobao to domestic girlfriend bought some, the price is basically in this. Curious friends can try it.

3. American jujube (Jocote Corona)

This thing is native to the tropical areas of the United States, the English name is Jocote or Red Mombin, so in many Taiwan classification documents have it directly transliterated as "Hou Gu Quan", a slightly more valuable translation called "red sour jujube", is accurate.

The structure and taste of this fruit are difficult to describe, because it is so different from any fruit we commonly find. The seed is large, the flesh is the most vivid yellow you can think of, the skin is wet, and when ripe, the taste is sweet and sour, with a clear fruity aroma. Some Americans describe it as "the complex taste of grapes and pears," while Caribbean people describe it as "sour and sweet mango pudding" or "mango pudding."

In one bite, the skin of the American red date is like a thin, non-bitter mango skin, which does not affect the texture or taste. The flesh has a slightly floury feel, like a half-cooked steamed bun or cake. The pulp has a rich, viscous juice, like a mango or fruit smoothie. The sour is like an orange, while the sweet is more like a date, especially one marinated in honey. After thinking about it, I found that the "mango pudding" analogy is still very appropriate.

The only point worth teasing is that the American red jujube pulp proportion is not high, the fruit pit is large. It looks a little strange at first. I curiously cracked open the pit and did not yield any dried fruit. But in any case, the fruit is common in Central and South America, while it is largely absent in Asia. In view of its taste is really quite good, recommend you have the opportunity to buy to try.

4. Quince

The quince, also known as the wood pear, is genetically close to apples and also native to Central Asia. The Wiki also says that "the Greek myth of the 'golden apple of strife' is actually a golden quince," which sounds fun.

I challenged the fruit Quinces I'd never seen before. I looked it up online and it's called quince, an American wonder fruit. There is a special fragrance, raw flavor is very rich, but very astringent mouth without swallowing, so finally decided to cook and sugar, mashed into jam, made a cake. If nothing else, the flavor of the cake with the honey and quince aroma was quite nice.

A popular form of quince in the United States is jam, and because it's popular with Caribbean and Hispanic people, hawthorn jellylike products like this one can be found in larger American supermarkets and in some dessert fillings.

5. Kiwi Berry

This fruit tastes better than a cherry and costs more than durian! This is the legend of kiwi jujube, like a jujube, smooth hairless can be eaten directly with skin! 100 times more vitamin c than apples. Only 20 days a year! Recommend to the sisters who have not eaten it to try it.

Actually, the kiwi berry is technically a Chinese fruit. The scientific name of this thing is Kiwifruit, kiwifruit family kiwifruit genus of deciduous large vine species. In other words, it is a relative of kiwi/kiwi fruit. And the experience of this thing and kiwi fruit is similar, that is, it is not much popular in China, but it is loved and taken away by Europeans and Americans, and one or two to cultivate into foreign fruits.

Now in addition to those remote and unpopular mountain origin in China, Australia, New Zealand, and even the United States, Mexico are growing kiwi berries, sales are also good, especially by some high-end or prefer organic healthy fruit consumers love.

6. Finger Grape

This is a red grape that originated in Arkansas in the United States in recent years, and is a typical product of modern agriculture and hybrid grafting. The shape of the fingers is very special, thin and long like human fingers.

Although the characteristics are more in the shape, the finger red is also great to eat. It contains nearly all the advantages of the American red grape: it is full of water, high sweetness, less sour taste, no seeds or too thick skin, and a ripe finger red grape with a hint of lychee flavor, perfect for a bowl while watching a play or reading an essay.

By the way, when checking the background information, I occasionally saw that some people in California and even Europe have begun to like this long red grape in recent years, and from time to time, they will use its high sugar to make wine or make jam (with the picture of Blue Dog brother in the kitchen exclamation: really long ah).

7. Mexican Hawthorn (Tejocote)

Wandering in Sunset Park to see the sale of Mexican hawthorn, strange bought a packet of taste, is generally the taste of hawthorn taste is not so sour, is not sweet, a light pear aroma. The green ones aren't ripe, they're not sour, they're just not that smooth. I think it might be appropriate to cook canned fruit.

However, this food tastes far less good than hawthorn taste, there is not much sweet and sour taste of hawthorn, it tastes more like crabapple or immature loquat. The texture is starchy, choking, and the pits are not small. So far, we haven't found any great edible value.

And this thing not only has no Chinese name, but also has little information in English, dog brother can only tolerate a little bit of Spanish. On the other hand, it is also widely sold in Mexico and the United States, and there should be some value, which we probably did not discover (for example, there are many videos in Spanish teaching how to make jams and preserves from Tejocotes). I will come back to add this content after I have studied and tried in these two days.