10 Fruits You Probably Have Never Tried

You may also check our listicle on the same topic: https://unbelievable-facts.com/2019/0... 1. Pineberry This fruit is a breed of strawberry that has the flavor of a pineapple. Instead of the usual red skin with white seeds, this small, berry-sized fruit has white skin with red seeds. Though commercial cultivation began back in 2010, pineberry remains a rare item in the grocery stores because of small-scale farming and low yield. 2. Ice Apple Native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ice apples are the fruit of the palmyra palm tree. The fruit contains two to four translucent, jelly-like seeds that are mildly sweet and very rehydrating during the dry summer. The palmyra tree is the official tree of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu and was considered to be a fertility deity in ancient times. 3. Miracle Berry Also known as “sweet berry,” this West African fruit has a special quality. If you eat anything sour after eating the berry, it will taste sweet. The berry itself is not sweet, but it contains a glycoprotein called “miraculin” that binds itself to your taste buds in the presence of sour foods and activates the sweet receptors. The effect lasts up to half an hour. 4. Chocolate Pudding Fruit Also known as “black sapote,” this fruit is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and Colombia. On the outside, they look like fat, raw tomatoes measuring five to 10 cm and are inedible when raw. But when ripe, the pulp has a flavor, texture, and color similar to chocolate pudding which is the reason for the name. It is also low-fat and has about four times the vitamin C content of an orange. 5. Coffee Cherry Coffee beans come from an edible fruit often mistakenly called the coffee “cherry” or “berry.” Unlike the beans, the fruit is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all mixed together. The sun-dried fruit is used to make tea in many coffee-growing regions, especially Bolivia and Yemen. The coffee fruit also contains caffeine and is used by many brands to make beverages like Hawaiian Coffee Fruit Juice which is made by a company called Kona Red. The drink is crazy expensive and costs $24.99 per bottle. 6. Snake Fruit Snake fruit, or salak, is a species of palm native to Indonesia. The fig-sized fruit has a distinctive skin with reddish-brown scales that resembles the skin of a snake. Inside this skin is a white, edible pulp that comes in three lobes with a seed in the center. It has an apple-like texture with a sweet-sour taste that anyone would find hard to resist. Eating too much of it, however, is said to cause constipation. 7. Rambutan This red, hairy, furball of a fruit native to Indonesia is closely related to lychee and longan. Once you peel its skin, you will find a white, tender flesh with a pleasant fragrance and a sweet, mildly acidic taste similar to grapes. Unlike most fruit seeds, the seed of rambutan is edible and quite rich in essential fatty acids. The fruits are often available at Asian food stores and fruit markets. 8. Blue Java Banana Unlike normal bananas which require tropical climates to survive, the Blue Java banana tree is cold-tolerant. It is often used as an ornamental plant because of the fruit’s color and the tree’s tolerance to temperate climates. A ripe Blue Java banana has an ice cream-like consistency with a taste similar to vanilla custard. Sadly, its color changes from blue to yellow as it ripens. 9. Hala Fruit Native to the Pacific Islands, Australia, and Malesia, this vibrant, exotic fruit resembles a pineapple or a sugar apple in appearance. The fruit, however, is unrelated to either of them and is quite large, weighing anywhere between seven to 15 kg. Edible both cooked and raw, the hala fruit tastes like sugarcane and is a major food source in the islands of Micronesia. Its flesh is so fibrous that it even serves as a natural dental floss. 10. Ackee The only edible part of an ackee is the flesh called “aril” covering the seeds when it’s ripe. The rest of the fruit and also the unripe aril are lethally toxic, inducing an illness known as “Jamaican vomiting sickness” that causes severe hypoglycemia, vomiting, and even death. Despite this, the ripe aril of the ackee is widely used in Caribbean cuisine. It is also the national fruit of Jamaica and considered one of its best delicacies.