Do you love to eat “local”? If your taste curiosity drives you in the local markets, you can buy fruit, often inexpensive and easy to store. A good idea is to enjoy them on the beach in the sun, instead of eating tourist products that you have at home: ice cream, snacks, pancakes, waffles). Make the locals work, rather than the hotels. The vendors will have you taste the fruit before you buy it and then often a mini-fridge is available in your hotel room.
Do you know the names of all tropical fruits and hot countries?
Behind its thick and dark shell, the mangosteen hides a melting white flesh with a very good subtle taste. At first glance, when opened, it looks like a clove of garlic of five to eight quarters, but the taste is most wonderful. Originally from Indonesia, mangosteen is a very popular exotic fruit. Asians love this perfect fruit.
Marangs
The marang also called tarap is a large exotic fruit of about twenty centimeters, which can weigh very heavy. It is covered with many rounded peaks giving it a particular appearance, like durian, jackfruit and breadfruit. The flesh of the marang is edible; its taste is pleasant especially fresh. Unripe marang can be eaten as a vegetable.
Dragon Fruit
Dragon fruit is also known as pitaya, dragon fruit, and strawberry pear. Its flesh is edible and resembles by its texture and the presence of small black seeds to that of the kiwi but much less tasty. There are three types of dragon fruit: the classic white pulp and pink skin, white pulp and yellow skin, and the rarer blood red pulp and pink skin, hard to find in stores. It is prettier and more decorative than good, dragon fruit catches the eye. Namely: the large flower of this fruit is used in infusion.
Annones or cinnamon apples
About the size of an apple, the cinnamon apple is tender and sweet white flesh. It is honeycombed with large, round black seeds. The taste is exquisite, sweet tending towards pear. Choose the slightly soft annone to consume. The staple or cinnamon apple tree is the tree from which this fruit is grown, which is very popular in the tropical markets of the Caribbean and in Southeast Asia.
Breadfruit fruit
The fruit of the breadfruit is eaten. It is rather round or oblong and measures 15 to 30 centimeters long. Its yellow-green bark is covered with thorns when ripe. This is the right time to consume its floury pulp with edible white flesh. The Polynesians call this fruit “Uru”. They prepare it boiled, roasted, stewed or grilled over a wood fire. The fruit of the breadfruit is prepared in French fries or au gratin and as its name suggests, it is possible to make gluten-free bread or cakes. And with this one we complete our list of rare exotic fruits.
