A quick guide to cutting and eating loquats the right way, plus handy storage, selection, and recipe tips for this delicious fruit.
The loquat is a unique fruit that comes in a bite-sized package. But don’t think you can just bite right into them! Inside this fuzzy little fruit are multiple large, inedible seeds that make preparing and eating loquats a bit tricky.
Learn how to cut and eat kiwanos with this step-by-step guide, plus recipe, selection, and storage tips for this delicious fruit.
Kiwano fruits, also known as kiwano melons, make a delicious and nutritious addition to your diet. If you can find them!
While this tropical fruit is related to cucumbers and melons, it has a texture and flavor all its own. Because of this, you can’t prepare a kiwano the same way you would these more familiar fruits.
Zing into the fruity alphabet with our guide to fruits starting with the letter Z! Explore unique flavors, intriguing textures, and nutritional surprises in every bite.
The letter Z may not be all that common in the English language, but it is used frequently in other languages around the world.
And that is why this list of the top 10 fruits that start with the letter Z features so much exotic produce.
This guide shares 15 unique and delicious fruits from Hawaii, including tips on how best to find, prepare, and consume them.
The islands of Hawaii are well-known for their variety of fresh tropical fruit. Interestingly, very few of the fruits you’ll find in this state are native to the region.
A practical step-by-step guide on how to prepare, cook, and eat bitter melon, plus handy recipe tips for this unique fruit.
Bitter melon is a unique-looking fruit (some consider it a veggie) with an even more unique taste. To use it in your cooking, you need to know how to deal with the spikey, lumpy peel and how to tame the bitter flavor.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to eat a bitter melon the right way. I’ll start with step-by-step instructions for cutting and preparing this funny-looking cucumber and give you our best tips for cooking it to perfection.
This guide shares 16 of the most interesting and tastiest citrus fruits, each with unique origins, shapes, colors, and flavors.
There’s nothing more refreshing than a sweet, juicy orange or a bright and sour lemon. Like most popular citrus fruits, these are hybrids created from the few natural, purebred citrus that exist. But not all these pulpy hybrids were created by people. Curious to know more?
Step into the colorful world of Brazilian fruits! This article highlights the most delicious fruits from Brazil you need to try, like the vibrant pitanga and the uniquely flavorful jabuticaba. Learn how to incorporate these tasty fruits into your meals for an authentic taste of Brazil’s bountiful harvest.
Given that it’s home to the world’s largest rainforest, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Brazil also has a huge plethora of native fruits.
This guide shares ten of the tastiest purple fruits from around the world, including tips on how best to find, prepare, and serve them.
With deep pigments that stain your tongue and turn any smoothie into a violet slurry, purple fruits know how to leave their mark.
This guide explores 15 of the tastiest green fruits from around the world, each with beautiful green skin or flesh and unique flavors and shapes.
Almost all fruits start off as green, but only a select few stay that way when ripe. And while green may seem a common color for fruits and vegetables, green fruits are more unique than you may think.
If you’ve never tried one, now’s the time to eat a cherimoya like a pro! Discover the best ways to cut, prep, and enjoy this custard-like fruit.
With a scaley rind, large poisonous seeds, and an imperfect shape, you’d never know the cherimoya is one of the tastiest fruits in the world. In fact, according to Mark Twain, it is the most delicious fruit known to man.
From the classic sweetness of apples to the exotic tang of pomegranates, learn about the different types of red fruits and how they can add a splash of color and a burst of flavor to your meals.
One of the reasons I enjoy eating red fruits is that they often have pretty intense flavors. But I also love buying those brightly-colored fruits because they are great for decorating dinner tables.
From tart to sweet, yellow fruits offer a burst of sunshine in every bite. This list shares 17 unique yellow fruits from around the world, from the small and feisty kumquat to the big and creamy durian.
I’ve been on a mission to try as many yellow fruits as possible to add a bit of extra joy to my day. They are not only bright and cheerful, but they’re also incredibly delicious in many different ways.
Learn how to cut and eat kumquats with this step-by-step guide, plus handy recipe tips for this tiny but tasty fruit.
The kumquat is a mini citrus fruit with one characteristic that is very different from other fruits in its family. And because of that difference, it is not eaten the way most people would expect.
Learn how to cut and eat rambutans with this step-by-step guide, plus handy recipe tips for this delicious fruit.
Somewhere between a sea urchin having a bad hair day and a brightly colored alien lifeform is the rambutan.
Given its odd appearance, I don’t blame you for having some questions about how to handle it. Most notably, how do you cut and eat a rambutan fruit?
In my never-ending quest to discover as many delicious fruits as possible, it is now time for me to dive a little deeper into the rambutan fruit.
This tiny fruit, with a peculiar outer layer and soft, creamy flesh inside, not only tastes delicious, but it also has an interesting nutritional profile.
As you may know, I love trying out new fruits that aren’t as mainstream as, for example, apples and bananas.
There are so many fruits out there that we may have never seen or heard of because they’re not so readily available in our local grocery stores.
One of those not-so-well-known exotic fruits is the delicious cherimoya fruit. While it’s getting easier to find cherimoyas, they are still quite unique and also a bit pricey.
Learn how to wash pesticides off fruits and vegetables with this guide, featuring five effective ways to clean fresh produce when organic options aren’t available.
In recent years, consumers have become more aware of the need to avoid pesticides, driving a noticeable rise in organic food sales.
Discover the unique bitter melon, a fruit that may taste very bitter but packs a punch when it comes to nutrition.
Bitter melon, also known as karela and bitter gourd, is a plant that produces a unique fruit. Unique both in taste as well as in appearance, but the nutritional benefits of bitter melon also stand out.
Even though bitter melon has a strong nutritional profile, it is still a somewhat underappreciated fruit, most likely because many people are ignoring this fruit because of its bitter taste.
In the latest installment of my never-ending quest to find different exotic fruits and excitingly unique vegetables, I am now going to discuss the longan fruit.
Longan fruit is a small tropical fruit with delicious, soft white flesh. It’s not always easy to find, but wow, do they taste good!
In my quest to find new, exciting fruits to try, I had the pleasure of eating snake fruit during my recent travels through Southeast Asia.
While snake fruit, also known as salak, is perhaps not as delicious and refreshing as other exotic fruits I’ve tried in the past, I was pleasantly surprised by this fruit’s unique flavors and texture.