More of...Fruit(s) of the Day

Last time I introduced the granadilla. Here are a a few more fruits I have been enjoying lately.

Guanabana

The guanabana is known as the soursop in English, but I have never come across it until I arrived in Colombia and had a guanabana flavored "Alpina" yogurt. It is blended into a delicious juice. The fruit is more or less the size of a large pineapple. And the when cut open looks like...


The fruit has a sour taste, hence its English name. It contains kidney bean sized seeds, which need to be laboriously cut out before doing anything with the fruit.

Maracuyá (passion fruit)
Most of us are familiar with the passion fruit as it tends to be the main flavoring in any fruit juice labelled "tropical". However, I had never had much experience of the fruit itself.


Zapote
Now, you may have come across the Guanabana and the Marayá, but have you heard of the Zapote. To me it does not look like a fruit at all. It looks like something that I would not pick off a tree...


Its skin is fairly tough and has to be peeled away to get at the fruit. The pumpkin coloured fruit is mildly sweet and very fibrous. I needed to work the dental floss after eating a zapote. The fruit contains five or so brazil nut sized/shaped pits, which you have to work around.