FRUITS YOU PROBABLY HAVE NEVER TRIED!

1. Pawpaw Fruit

The largest edible fruit native to North America tastes like both mango and banana. It is pollinated by flies because its flowers smell like rotting meat.

2. Durian

This is a fruit that acts as an instant energizer and can help reduce anxiety and fatigue. However, its smell is like rotten onions or raw sewage which is why it is banned on public transport in Singapore, Thailand, and other countries.

3. Miracle Fruit

When consumed, this fruit causes your taste buds to not detect a sour taste for nearly 30 minutes. This means that all sour foods taste sweet. It has been used to treat diabetes.

4. Peanut Butter Fruit

Like its name, the peanut butter fruit tastes like peanut butter. They are small and reddish-orange in color. The tropical tree that bears the fruit smells like peanut butter.

5. Black Sapote

Also known as “chocolate pudding fruit,” it tastes like chocolate pudding, is low in fat, and has about four times more vitamin C than an orange.

6. Monstera Deliciosa

Its name literally translates as “delicious monster.” If not 100% ripe, it can cause throat and skin irritation. Once ripe, it tastes like a mix of pineapple, banana, and coconut.

7. Blue Java Banana

The fruit is a hardy, cold-tolerant banana which has a flavor similar to vanilla and has a consistency like ice cream.

8. Snake Fruit

Scaly as snakeskin and prickly like a cactus, this fruit tastes as sweet as honey and as sour as a pineapple once peeled.

9. Rambutan

With poisonous seeds, Rambutan is a red, hairy, and juicy fruit which is delicious inside. It is native to Southeast Asia and Indonesia.

10. Physalis Fruit

Belonging to the nightshade family, this fruit is encased in a lantern-like covering. It resembles a tomato.

11. Breadfruit

The texture of a moderately riped, cooked breadfruit is like freshly-baked bread, and it tastes like a potato. Native to the South Pacific, it is a staple food in many countries.

12. Martillo

The name is Spanish for “hammer.” This fruit has a very rough exterior. The seeds need to be plucked out and consumed. It comes from the lotus plant.

13. Mangosteen

Cultivated since the ancient times in places like Java and Sumatra, the fruit is highly valued for its juicy texture and a slightly sweet-and-sour flavor.

14. Granadilla

Native to the Andes mountains, the fruit is very aromatic and contains vitamins like A, C, and K. It has a hard and slippery shell and only the transparent pulp inside is edible.

15. Soursop

Sometimes promoted as an alternative treatment for cancer, soursop has a flavor that tastes like a combination of strawberry and pineapple with underlying creamy flavors like coconut and banana.

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