Have you ever tried a miracle berry or mangosteen? Try these rare fruits from around the world and find out where to buy them.
What about daily mangosteen? Isn’t that the same as eating an apple every day? Do you know what mangosteens are? What about miracle berries? Better yet, where can you get these tasty and nutritious fruits that are enjoyed by people all over the world?
Vitamin C is abundant in apples, but there are many superfruits from far-off continents that are also nutrient-packed. They can be found at your local market.
Find out which fruits are the rarest worldwide by reading on.
Sapodilla
Typically, you’ll find sapodillas growing in tall trees in places like Mexico and Belize, but you can also find them growing all over the tropics and importing them to the U.S.
Its common names include the sapodilla, sapota, chikoo, naseberry, and nispero, becoming extinct in the early 19th century after European colonization.
Sapodilla tastes like a pear and is very sweet. It has a slight grittiness to it as if it were a pear with a grainy texture.
Water Apple
Almost 40 feet high, this tree bears fruit two times a year. In addition to being eaten right off the tree, water apples are sometimes cooked with sugar and cinnamon into a kind of applesauce, or diced into preserves to enjoy throughout the year.
Known scientifically as the watery rose apple or simply as the rose apple, the water apple grows natively in South East Asian countries and in certain tropical regions of India.
Miracle Berry
Although they are enjoyed widely in Japan, the USFDA has banned their import due to a lack of safety testing. The sugar and artificial sweetener industries may have viewed miracle berries as a threat and sought to prevent their importation. Despite their tough appearance, these plants are very easy to grow indoors if the proper conditions are met.
Medicinal uses for the fruit, leaves, and seeds of the Miracle fruit, a shrub living in West Africa.
Miracle fruit is used for diabetes, obesity, taste disturbances caused by cancer treatments, and other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to back up these claims.
As a sugar-free, low-calorie sweetener, miracle fruit is used in foods.
A chemical found in miracle fruit affects tongue taste receptors. Sour tastes are registered as sweet by this chemical.
Hala Fruit
Hala fruit is eaten by removing a segment and sucking out the nectar. You should eat the hala right after you open it, though, as the fruit starts to stink once it gets old, earning it the nickname of ‘stink nut.’
Fresh hala fruit, boiled or ground into a paste, or squeezed into juice, has a delicate sweetness similar to the leaves. It may be eaten raw, boiled or ground into a paste.
Australian Finger Lime
This fruit is native to Australia’s rainforests and is grown there, but its popularity has led to its availability in some US markets. Finger limes are commonly used to add tartness to seafood dishes, but they’re excellent for making finger lime mojitos.
Commercial crop development is underway for its edible fruits.
Aside from use in dressings, jams and sauces, cordials and cocktails, Finger Lime also has a refreshing lime flavour. Freeze-dried finger limes are also a delicious addition to dukkah. Use this substitute for lemon or lime wherever they are used.
Jabuticaba
Jabuticaba trees produce grape-like berries that grow creepily on the trunk and branches. Brazil has been the original source of jabuticaba fruit, but now it can be found growing throughout the world. Various varieties have different tastes and each is “bursting with flavor,” according to Gastro Obscura. The fruit is eaten by squeezing out the juicy flesh and eating it.
They are impossible to export because they start to rot soon after picking and can’t be found at your local market.
Jaboticaba trees are cauliflory plants, meaning that their flowers and fruits sprout directly from their trunks. A white jaboticabas tastes like sour lychee, and a Grimal jaboticabas tastes like grape candy.
This fruit is a good source of minerals such as calcium, iron, and especially potassium and phosphorus, containing 34.6 and 13.2 mg respectively in 100 g.
As well as tryptophan and lysine, jaboticaba contains significant quantities of other amino acids.
Mangosteen
When the peel is peeled away, the fruit can be found inside. It’s white, juicy, and slippery, and tastes both sweet and sour. When you turn over mangosteens, you can see the raised design that tells you how many segments are inside.
A few Asian markets carry canned mangosteens that contain added sugar in their syrups, however.
Even though mangosteen is an obscure fruit, its high nutritional value, fiber content, and antioxidant content make it a worthwhile addition to your diet.
In addition to maintaining a variety of bodily functions, mangosteen contains vitamins and minerals that help to produce DNA, help muscles contract, help wounds heal, and boost immunity.
Rambutan
The rambutans are indigenous to Southeast Asia, but they are available in some specialty food stores. Tropical climates in central America produce large quantities of these crops, and you’ll see them being sold in bags along the sides of the road.
Apparently, rambutans are sweet and creamy, while lychees are crispier, slightly less sweet. Compared to the lychee and longan fruits, longans are less sweet and are known for their tart flavor. Rambutans are related to lychees and longans.
Rambutan’s sugar content can turn into alcohol when too ripe, this can cause cholesterol levels to rise, this is particularly dangerous for people with diabetes or diabetes, so people who overeat Rambutan’s can experience this side effect.
Durian
The poor durian fruit gets a bad reputation all the time. Its odor caused a shipment of the fruit to be grounded on an Indonesian flight when its odor was infamous for clearing a room.
It’s native to southeast Asia, where durians are considered superfruits due to their natural high levels of nutrients that can improve your health and appearance. Fiber is contained in one serving, which is the entire daily requirement.
Due to the fact that most of the genes in durian work towards pumping out odors, it stinks so bad. The entire system of the fruit is designed to produce the smell, which is likely to attract primates like orangutans to consume and disperse the seeds.
Jackfruit
Jackfruit is such a versatile fruit that vegans are able to convert it into meat-like meals with very little effort. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka both consume both the ripe and unripe versions of Jackfruit.
There are two types of canned jackfruit available in Asian markets in the US: those packed in brine and those packed in syrup. Those who prefer brine-packed produce are able to prepare mock meats including pulled “pork”, which can be made with the unripe version.
When it comes to jackfruit’s dense and fibrous texture, it is comparable to that of a banana, mango, or pineapple. Nonetheless, jackfruit’s taste is quite distinct. Some say it’s sweet, and some say it tastes like pulled pork when it’s cooked.
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Most popular fruits in the U.S
- Bananas.
- Apples.
- Grapes.
- Strawberries.
- Oranges.
- Watermelons.
- Lemons.
- Avocados.
