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You won’t surprise us with citrus fruits - many people add lemon to tea every day, and they buy tangerines not only for the New Year. But the citrus family is not limited to these fruits. There are many fragrant fruits in the world that you may not have tried or even heard of. Our today's selection is about a dozen citrus novelties.

This citrus was obtained in 1914 by crossing a tangerine and a grapefruit. The fruit turned out to be a little larger than a grapefruit, but it tastes more like a mixture of tangerine and lemon. Agli has sweet juicy flesh and wrinkled greenish-yellow skin. It is grown mainly in the USA, Florida, so if you are passing through there - try it!

2. Bergamot

It turns out that this is not only a flavor for tea, but also citrus, obtained by crossing citron and orange. It has a sour but pleasant taste. Bergamot, unlike most citrus fruits, is eaten only in processed form - it is used to make jam, jam, marmalade.

The fruit comes from the wild places of India. It has a sour taste, due to which the inhabitants of South India even use it for pickling. Gayanima peel has a specific aroma, reminiscent of the smell of ginger or eucalyptus.

A hybrid citrus bred in Algeria in 1902 by the French priest Father Clement (hence the name). It resembles tangerine, has a pleasant taste, is bred mainly in Mediterranean countries (the same Algeria, Spain, Italy, Morocco).

Unlike its decorative counterpart called kikudaidai, which is also grown in Japan, natsudaidai is completely edible - it is a hybrid of sour orange (orange) and pomelo. True, it is much more acidic than these fruits. This plant was discovered in the garden of Yamaguchi Prefecture in the 17th century, and since then natsudaidai has been the symbol of the prefecture of this city.

It is completely different from the lime that has become familiar to us! It is sometimes called citrus caviar - for the multi-colored pulp, consisting of elastic small particles, and really resembling caviar. There are many varieties of finger limes, and outwardly these oval-shaped fruits resemble colorful cucumbers. This fruit is most popular in Australia: local chefs actively use it in cooking, adding finger lime to salads and even soups, served as a side dish, garnishing meat and fish dishes with pulp.

In fact, this is a tangerine, which, however, surpasses any tangerines and their hybrids in terms of taste and nutritional qualities. The pulp of ripe fruits is orange, juicy, sweet, with a large number of seeds. Not only fruits are used for food, but also leaves - they make fragrant tea, which perfectly quenches thirst.

It is also a variety of mandarin, which nevertheless does not resemble mandarin either in smell or taste: it resembles an orange, mandarin and grapefruit at the same time and has a sweet-sour taste with a slight bitterness. Want to try? I'll have to go to Japan, to Hiroshima Prefecture. Interestingly, they are not eaten immediately after being removed from the branches - hassaku fruits should lie down for a month or two in a dark place, or even on the ground or sand. This is how this citrus gets its sweetness.

The plant comes from the foothills of the Andes, but you can try these fruits not only there, but also in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. It is a 1.5-2 m high shrub that looks so attractive that it is used as an ornamental plant for greenhouses and gardens. Its fruits look like small oranges, but their amazing taste resembles a mixture of pineapple, passion fruit and strawberries. The inside of the naranjilla fruit contains many creamy white seeds similar to tomato seeds.

Another citrus comes from India, which is distinguished by large fruits (up to 12 cm) with a hard, “wooden” peel. In appearance, the pulp is unattractive, but its taste is excellent - feronia can be both sweet and sour.

So when you travel, don't forget to try local exotic citruses, which are unlikely to be found in our supermarkets.

7. Tangor is the result of crossing tangerine and sweet orange. Rather, it is considered so. In fact, everything is a little more complicated. The most famous tangor is Temple (Temple, Temple, Temple). Its origin is not completely clear.
8. Clementine. And this is a hybrid of mandarin and king orange, created by the French missionary and breeder Father Clement (Clement Rodier) in Algeria in 1902. Actually, if you buy a tangerine, and it is somehow too sweet for a tangerine, it is quite possible that it is actually a clementine.
9. The natural tangor of the East is tankan. This culture has been cultivated since time immemorial in the south of China, on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and in the Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima. The tree on which the tankan grows is indistinguishable from a tangerine, but the fruits make one suspect that this citrus is a hybrid with an orange.
10. Ortanique - also probably a natural tangor. It was also found in Jamaica, but already in 1920. Since tangerine and orange trees grew nearby, they decided that this was their hybrid. The name was collected from the world by thread - or (ange) + tan (gerine) + (un) ique.
11. Royal mandarin (Citrus nobilis, kunenbo, Cambodian mandarin). His appearance is quite memorable, it rarely happens in our stores and is sold simply as a tangerine
12. Markot is also a famous tangor. Also of unknown origin. Marcotes are called Florida tangors, about the parental varieties / species of which nothing is known for certain. The first tree was found in 1922 and built in good hands.


13. Satsumy (inshiu, Citrus unshiu) Moroccan. According to one version, all satsums are a hybrid of citron and lime; the second is a hybrid of orange and lime.
14. Yemeni citron - an independent species.
15. Citron "Fingers (hand) of the Buddha" is similar to Cthulhu;)
16. Corsican citron. Please note - all these varieties have almost no pulp - one zest.


17. Kaffir lime (Kaffir lime, kaffir lime, Citrus hystrix, Kaffir lime, porcupine citrus)
18. Etrog
19. Persian (Tahitian) lime
20. Limetta (limette, Citrus limetta, Italian lime, sweet lime)
21. Mexican lime (West Indian lime, sour lime). It is the Mexican lime that is usually painted on bottles and cans with all sorts of lime drinks.
22. Indian lime (aka Palestinian, Palestinian sweet lime, Colombian lime) has long been considered a hybrid of lime and lime, but attempts to cross these plants did not result in anything similar.


23. Australian finger lime (finger lime). It is also called citrus caviar.
24. He is. There are many varieties of them, with pulp of different colors. The origin is also unclear. The fruits are similar to multi-colored cucumbers. Australian chefs use the pulp of finger limes as a side dish, add it to salads and soups, and decorate fish and meat dishes with it.
25. Limandarins (lemons) - the results of crossing tangerines with limes or lemons. Limandarins have been bred in China since time immemorial. It is believed that the first Limandarin was the result of a cross between a Cantonese lemon and a Cantonese mandarin. The Chinese red lemons that appear on our shelves are typical lemons.
26. Rangpur - Indian hybrid of mandarin and lime


27. Otahite (Sweet Rangpur, Otahite Rangpur, Tahitian Orange). This is also a limandarin, also believed to be from India. It was opened in 1813 in Tahiti, from where the Europeans took it around the world.
28. Rough lemon or citronella. It comes from Northern India and is a hybrid of mandarin and citron.
29. Pomelo. It is also Citrus maxima, Citrus grandis, pummela and sheddock - in honor of Captain Sheddock, who brought pomelo seeds to the West Indies (to Barbados) from the Malay Archipelago in the 17th century. Huge round or pear-shaped fruits with a rather thick rind, a lot of juicy pulp, rough, easily detachable membranes. One of the original citrus fruits, from which all their variety is gone. The zest of a pomelo is yellow, green, and the flesh is yellow, green, red.
30. Pomelo with lime.
31. Hybrid - Duncan grapefruit, a variety bred in Florida, in 1830
32. Also a hybrid - grapefruit Hudson


33. A very famous pomelo hybrid in our country is Oroblanco. It is the result of crossing Siamese sweet pomelo and Marsh grapefruit.
34. Sweety - a hybrid grapefruit from Israel
35. New Zealand grapefruit. It is called grapefruit, but it is believed that it is either a natural tangelo or a hybrid of pomelo and grapefruit. The place of origin is also unclear - either China or Australia. Significantly sweeter than most grapefruits.
36. Chironha is a citrus fruit that is about the size of a grapefruit and tastes more like an orange.


37. Calamondin (a.k.a. golden lime, Panama orange, calamansi, musky lime), the result of crossing sour mandarin (sunky) and kumquat
38. Yuzu (ichandrin, young) - the result of crossing sunki and ichang-papeda (ichang lime)
39. Kumquat. These are such small, with the extreme phalanx of the thumb of an adult male, yellow or orange fruits, similar in shape to reduced lemons. Sold, as a rule, in large grocery stores, in laminated foam trays. They appeared in Russia relatively recently, only a few years ago. At first they were hellishly expensive, but today they have fallen in price. Well, if you haven't tried them yet, you've probably seen them.
40. Limequat Eustis (a hybrid of Mexican lime and round kumquat)
41. Mandarinquat Indio
42. Lemonquats (lemon + kumquat) and orangequats (orange or tripoliata + kumquat). And here, attention, faustreme is a hybrid of Eustice limequat and Australian finger lime


43. Sevillano, Seville bitter orange. In Seville they produce 17 thousand tons per year. Bitter oranges are not eaten fresh, juices are not made from them, but they are used in the hybridization of citrus fruits, used to make orange bitters, to give an orange flavor to liqueurs, and also as a seasoning for fish and as a raw material for obtaining aromatic oils.
44. Citranzhquat - a hybrid of citrange (which in turn is a hybrid of orange and trifoliates, aka poncirus) and kumquat.
45. Bitter orange kikudaidai (Japanese citrus, canaliculata) is a purely ornamental plant. In Japan, it is grown to admire
46. ​​Bergamot (bergamot lemon, bergamot sour orange) - a variety of bitter orange with a very bright recognizable smell - used in perfumery
47. Sweet orange Citrus sinensis - Chinese citrus.
48. A hybrid of sour orange and pomelo - natsudaidai or natsumikan


49. Citrus sinensis - from within.
50. Red oranges. Their Russian name is korolki. Americans call them blood oranges - bloody oranges. The bloodiest sanguinelli...
51. ...and sanguinelli


52. The fruit of papeda ichang. Use papeds for hybridization
53. Ponciruses - an independent genus of the subfamily of the orange family of the rue family, including one single species - trifoliata or three-leafed poncirus.
54. Citremon - a hybrid of trifoliata and lemon
55. Kabusu (kabosu) - Chinese, but especially popular in Japan, a hybrid of papeda and orange


56. Eremocitruses or Australian dessert limes. This is also a separate subgenus of citrus fruits. Eremocitrus has a drop dead shaggy tree and small green fruits
57. Murrays are a separate genus of the rue family, not citruses. But their fruits are similar to citrus fruits, and therefore everyone who is engaged in breeding, studying and hybridizing citrus fruits is also interested in murrays. Murray is also known as orange jasmine.


58. Severinia is also close to citrus fruits
59. Afrocitrus or citropsis. They are African cherry oranges. These are trees with small edible fruits that vaguely resemble citrus fruits.
60. Lemon feronia, sour limon or Indian wood apple. Indian wild-growing rue with very sour (although they say that there are also sweet) edible fruits with an almost wooden peel.
61. Ceylon Orangester. Orangester fruits are very bitter, but the leaves, if rubbed, broken, have a strong lemon flavor.

Everyone who comes to Thailand is faced with a large number of unfamiliar and incomprehensible fruits.
There are a lot of articles on the Internet, and even sites dedicated to this.

But what to choose from all this and try if you have limited time in Thailand or other Southeast Asian countries?
I want to warn you, many fruits in Thailand, although exotic in appearance, do not have a pronounced taste.

Especially for you I chose the top 10 most striking tastes. Some fruits are sold only in season, many are always on store shelves.

1) Mango Even if you have tried mango, do it in Thailand. Sweet tender juicy pulp, slightly fibrous towards the stone. Slight spruce flavor, eaten without skin. Traditional Thai dish, mango + rice boiled in sweet coconut milk.
One of the favorite fruits in Thailand, it comes in different colors and shapes: dark green, light green, milky yellow, yellow.

2) durian This is something with something, I advise everyone to try this fruit at least once. Huge, watermelon-sized fruit. All studded with spikes. If it suddenly falls from a tree on top of you, it will remain sticking out of your head.
You cut its thick skin, inside the fruit is tender and fat like a creamy dessert. Very sweet like cream, hints of melon, chestnut and fried onions! It has a strong smell of rotten meat, many stores do not sell it, and airlines do not allow transportation on board. But when you eat, you hardly notice the smell!
It acts on the body like alcohol, the heartbeat quickens, potency increases.
The leader among all fruits in terms of the content of useful elements and minerals. And some, like indole (a natural compound with antibacterial properties) are only in it. It is the only fruit containing organic sulfur suitable for eating.
I heard that if you eat a portion of durian within a week, there will be a strong strengthening and strengthening of the body.
The seller will be happy to help you choose the best fruit. This is determined by the sound by tapping the sides with a wooden stick. Also cut and pack it. Just please don't buy durian pieces wrapped in cling film! And do not drink durian with alcohol, you can get poisoned.

3) passion fruit(Passion fruit) a round box the size of a tangerine, like a rigid foam cut into 2 parts. Inside the seeds with pulp. The taste is very complex sour-saturated. Very juicy. As if mixed pineapple with orange, but a tropical shade, the bones crunch on the teeth. The flavor will likely sound familiar to you, and is used in many gums and yogurts.
It is very easy to make juice from passion fruit, just put the core on a sieve and rub it with a spoon.

4) Coconut Fresh coconut has a completely different taste, grassy-sweet. But at the same time soft. The difference is clear on the example of hazelnuts in the supermarket and fresh from the tree, if anyone has tried it.
It is interesting that people buy coconut in Russia more often because of the nut. Here, fresh coconut is used for drinking. Cut off the top and insert the tube. The nut itself is more often thrown away.
Many Thai soups are prepared on the basis of coconut juice in packs: Tom Yum Kung, Curry ...

5) Jackfruit Sweet, turbo gum flavor, light banana and pineapple flavor. The pulp feels like chewing hard peppers. The fruit grows large, green, all over with growths. When cut open, the edible part is like large yellow corn kernels.
Unlike Durian, you can buy already cut and packed in a box.

6) Mangosteen round, outside hard thick eggplant-colored peel. It paints hands very much, like blueberries. Inside, sweet tender jelly pulp of grape flavor, refreshingly sweet, with sourness.
Thais going to visit each other often give a bag of mangosteen. Mangosteen has a short season and is highly valued.

7) Longan. In appearance, a broom with buffy balls the size of a cherry tomato. Outside, the peel is like a tangerine, only dry. Inside there is a jelly grape, light notes of melon, spicy notes, and a little taste of wood lice, if anyone has tried it. Fruit for the sweet tooth. The stone is round dark maroon-brown.

8) Lychee, lychee (Litchi chinensis) is a small fruit about the size of a quail testicle. Outside, a slightly prickly texture like a spruce cone, only the texture is less. Color from pink to red-brown. Jelly grape inside. Brown stone, acorn shape. Apparently a relative of the Longans and Lancongs. I really liked the taste, like pink or red large grapes, only stronger, lemonade-candy.
This fruit is rare, it ripens once a year in early May. Just in the low season, so it is difficult for tourists to catch it. Often sold with a broom, like longan.

9) Guava Similar in texture and appearance to a pear. Complex taste, strawberry aftertaste. If bitten off with the peel, coniferous notes. Small hard bones of a yellowish milky color.

10) Salak, snake fruit (snake fruit) scales on top, inside the fruit looks like a steamed acorn. Often in 2 halves. The skin is similar to a chestnut but breaks more easily.
The taste is sweet-sour-dry. Notes of sea buckthorn, feijoa, strawberry.

Below are the rest of the fruits without any order.

11)dragonfruit to a greater extent it is figs, seeds and consistency from kiwi. It looks like a red kohlrabi from the outside. Delicate, not sour, not sweet.

12) Sugar apple, Annona (custard apple) dense jelly texture, or like latex. It looks like a persimmon, and powdery too.
Very sweet. It also looks like a mango. Spruce notes. The pits are dark like a large apple seed.

13) Longkong behind a dense peel, a delicate fruit is hidden. Outside round, inside resembling a head of garlic with cloves. If you look closely at a grapefruit, then its slices consist of small capsules with juice. There are several of these capsules only larger. To taste: light citrus, grapefruit, lime. Sweet, delicate texture, like jelly. A few hard bones.

14) Papaya Oblong fruit. Looks like a zucchini. Inside the fruit is a cavity filled with black and white peas, similar to black pepper.
Color on a cut from yellow to carrot. I thought that this fruit was not widely used because of the unexpressed taste. The first association, unripe melon, undercooked carrots.
The consistency of a ripe fruit is like an avocado, but not as greasy, but rather grainy.

15) Lime small sour green lemon with a strong citrus aroma, somewhere between lemon and bergamot. Thai lime is smaller than the ones that are brought to us. An important component of Thai dishes. Salads with seafood are poured with its juice, awesome soups are prepared ...

16) Kaffir lime It differs from the usual one by a curved skin, as if covered with growths, and a stronger aroma. More rare. Kaffir lime leaves are used in Thai soups.

17) Bergamot Many of you love tea with bergamot (Earl Grey), but not many thought that this is a relative of lime or just lemon. Very aromatic, more sour and bitter than limes. The whole is covered with semicircular growths. Used for aromatic purposes, make oils and add to tea.

18) Rambutan Funny fruit, hairy all over, greenish to maroon in color. The taste is not as memorable as the outside. Dense grape, jelly, without much sweet taste. Inside the bone, like an acorn. Around the bone, the peel, if it enters the mouth along with the pulp, is unpleasant, as if eating with the husk. Looks like a longkong.

19) pomelo It looks like a large green-yellow grapefruit. To taste, this is probably the least aromatic citrus. Ripe fruit is very sweet. With a little bitterness. Inside, everything is like in a grapefruit, only the slices are larger.

20) sapodilla(lamut). Skin from orange-yellow to brown. The shape is closer to the circle, sharper towards the bottom. It tastes like a sweet pear, a little astringent, the flesh is large in texture, as if frayed. Black oblong bones.

21) zhuzhuba(jujube, or Chinese date) In Thailand, it is green. It has nothing in common with an ordinary date. Green apple shape, green tomato skin. Crispy flesh like a radish, taste of unripe apple, pear, no pronounced taste. A stone like a plum.

22) Chompoo(pink apple) In general, the color is not pink, not a drop, but very burgundy! Pear shape, barely visible edges. From below, like several converging petals. Crispy like a Chinese salad, reminiscent of sour rhubarb, a little knit, a subtle hint of celery. Fresh-sweet-sour-watery taste. Oddly enough, I imagine it in a vegetable salad and not as a fruit.

23) yellow watermelon The oblong shape of a melon, the peel is like that of an ordinary watermelon, only lighter. Inside the flesh is lemon yellow. The price in a Thai supermarket is almost the same as red 22 rubles per kg. Honey notes, no refreshing watermelon aroma. Sweeter, but the taste is softer.

24) marian plum or Gandaria (marian plum) rather dense peel, apricot color, plum shape and texture. The taste of mango at the bone, apricot. Delicious with a crispy skin and very juicy, the price is from 60-150 baht.

25) Starfruit or Carambola a, sweet and sour watery fruit. The shape is oblong, the edges protrude strongly, an asterisk is obtained in the section, hence the name of the fruit.
The taste is very variable, in the store it is a slightly tasteless, watery fruit, more suitable for garnishing salads and sweets. If you buy from locals or pick wild carambola, then the taste is completely different, with a strong candy smell of Duchesse or Iron Brew lemonades. Fresh, crispy, sour. Smaller in size. Doesn't look like the one in the store at all.

The term "fruit" appeared in 1705 and since then means edible or inedible fruits of trees, shrubs (earlier, all plant fruits were called vegetables). The product is one of the main components of the human diet, since, depending on the variety, it contains many vitamins and microelements. According to rough estimates, there are a little more than 2,000 fruits on the planet.

Apricot

A small tree or large shrub with a wide round crown. Very elegant are its reddish-brown or brown-olive, shiny, bare shoots, often in places (but not entirely) covered with a grayish film, 2-3 buds nearby. Very decorative at the time of flowering, decorated with numerous large white or pale pink flowers, with dark red recurved sepals. No less beautiful is the apricot at the time of fruiting, decorated with velvety-pubescent, often with a blush, sweet, rounded fruits with a longitudinal groove up to 3 cm in diameter. The tree loves light and tolerates drought well, living up to 50 years or more.

Avocado

Interest in avocados has been steadily growing in recent years, but still few people know that there are varieties whose fruits are more like a bottle gourd, there are black, pimply, oval and huge spherical avocados. Moreover, some of these varieties differ three times from each other in a number of important indicators of chemical composition. Nevertheless, with the help of properly selected varieties, people in different parts of the world take care of their skin condition, hair health, treat atherosclerosis, relieve arthritis symptoms and normalize the functioning of the nervous system.

cherry plum

Strongly prickly branched multi-stem trees, sometimes a shrub, with thin brownish-green shoots, 3-10 meters high. Cherry plum flowers are white or pink, solitary. Blooms in early May. Cherry plum fruits ripen in August-September. Excellent honey plant and rootstock for plums.

A pineapple

Everyone knows that sweet ripe pineapple is added to salads, yogurts and pies. Fewer people know that pineapples can be fermented and boiled as cabbage soup. Even fewer have heard that pineapple leaves are used to produce a light and durable leather substitute, new types of fabric, nanofiber, which has become an alternative to plastic. And very few people know that scientists today, with the help of the bromelain enzyme contained in pineapple, are finding new ways to treat respiratory diseases, angina pectoris, ischemia, and are also actively exploring the potential of the enzyme in the fight against cancer cells.

Annona (guanabana)

The tree in natural conditions reaches 6 m in height, in the room it is much lower. Unlike some other annonas, this is an evergreen tree. The leaves are oval or oblong, glossy, leathery, dark green, up to 15 cm long. They have a slightly spicy smell, especially noticeable when rubbed. The flowers are fragrant, large (up to 4.5 cm in diameter), consist of three yellow-green fleshy outer petals and three pale yellow inner petals, can appear in different places - on the trunk, branches and small twigs. Flowers never fully open. Guanabana fruits are oval or heart-shaped, often irregular in shape, up to 30 cm in length, 15 cm in diameter and weighing up to 3 kg, dark green, turning yellow-green when ripe.

Orange

There are many legends about the beneficial properties of an orange, some of which, however, are not confirmed by anything. For example, some believe that an orange breaks all records for the content of vitamin C, although in fact it does not stand out among other citrus fruits in this parameter. Others believe that orange fruits (or freshly squeezed juice) can effectively burn fat and provide relief from extra pounds in diets. This is also not entirely true.

Banana

Bananas have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and anti-allergic properties. With the help of banana components (dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline and noradrenaline), atherosclerosis, hypertension are treated, liver enzyme activity is increased, convulsions are relieved, and small doses of banana increase the quality and quantity of sperm. The main thing is not to abuse the banana diet, so as not to get the opposite effect, and also not to provoke problems with excess weight and varicose veins.

Bergamot

Bergamot is a hybrid species of an artificially bred plant of the genus Citrus. The plant was obtained by crossing orange and citron. The skin of bergamot contains valuable essential oils used in the cosmetic and perfume industries, as well as in medicine.

Grapefruit

grapefruit (English) grape and fruits- grapes and fruit) - a citrus yellow-orange fruit that grows in subtropical climatic latitudes. Grapefruit grows on an evergreen tree of the same name, reaching a height of 13-15 m. A ripe fruit in diameter is no more than 15 cm. In appearance, grapefruit is most similar to an orange, but its flesh is more acidic, and the inner white veins are bitter. Many scientists believe that the grapefruit originated in India as a natural hybridization of the pomelo and the orange.

Pear

This is a fruit plant with a multi-thousand-year history of cultivation, which almost all this time is fighting for the right to be no worse than its close relative - an apple. And the pear is really no worse. Potassium, antioxidants, coarse dietary fiber, less fruit acids, fiber-related “light” sugars and other beneficial substances make this fruit both tasty and healthy, and in some cases medicinal. Experimentally proven, for example, the ability of pears to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and prevent strokes.

Guava

A small evergreen tree up to 3-4 m high, belongs to the myrtle family, tolerates drought well. Blooms once or twice a year. It gives one main crop - up to 100 kg per tree and 2-4 additional, much smaller crops. Guava matures ninety to one hundred and fifty days after flowering. The shape and size of the fruit is extremely variable. In appearance, the guava looks like a bumpy green or yellow apple. Guava fruits are round and pear-shaped, with a bright yellow, reddish or green thin skin. The mass of fruits of cultivated varieties is from 70 to 160 g, the length of the fruit is from 4 to 6.5 cm, the diameter is 4.8-7.2 cm. which disappears in mature fruit.

Jackfruit

A plant of the mulberry family, a close relative of the breadfruit tree. Jackfruit is the national fruit of Bangladesh. Jackfruit fruits are the largest edible fruits growing on trees: 20-90 cm long and up to 20 cm in diameter, they weigh up to 34 kg. Their thick skin is covered with numerous cone-shaped protrusions. Young fruits are green, when ripe they become green-yellow or brown-yellow and when tapped they make a hollow sound (immature fruits are deaf). Inside, the fruit is divided into large lobes containing yellow, fragrant, sweet pulp, consisting of juicy soft fibers. Each slice contains one fairly large oblong white seed 2-3 cm long. The cut jackfruit fruit has a pleasant specific smell, slightly reminiscent of a banana and pineapple.

dragon fruit (pitahaya)

An extraordinary fruit. Currently, it is grown in southern Mexico, in some countries of Central and South America, in Vietnam, as well as in Israel (in the Negev desert). Depending on the species, the size of the pitahaya fruit, the color of the pulp (white, pink, purple), the color of the skin (from yellow to orange, from red to purple) and the surface texture of the fruit (with small outgrowths, with thin colored scales) vary. The pulp of the dragon fruit fruit is always filled with small black seeds, which are customary to clean out.

durian

Durian has such a disgusting smell that you are unlikely to be allowed into a public place with it. However, if you overcome disgust or just close your nose and taste the juicy pulp, you will immediately understand where the concept of the king of fruits came from.

carambola

Evergreen, slow-growing tree 5 m high with drooping branches and a dense, highly branched, rounded crown or shrub. The leaves are soft, dark green, smooth on top and covered with whitish pubescence below. The leaves are sensitive to light and cluster together at night. The flowers are small pink or purple-red. Carambola fruits are fleshy, crispy and juicy, slightly spicy, with massive ribbed outgrowths, ranging in size from a chicken egg to a large orange. Ripe fruits of carambola are amber-yellow or golden-yellow. They are unusual in shape - they look like a ribbed airship.

Kiwi

The herbaceous vine Actinidia sinensis and its fruits are berries with green flesh and brown skin covered with small hairs. The history of kiwi is very unusual. The birthplace of the creeper with the name mihutao, which became the progenitor of kiwi, is China.

clementines

clementine or Citrus clementina is one of the varieties of tangero. It is a hybrid of orange and tangerine. It was created back in 1902 by Father Klemen, who was not only a priest, but also a wonderful breeder. The shape of the fruit is the same as that of the mandarin, but they are much sweeter.

Kumquat

whale. golden orange
Yellow-orange tropical fruit of the citrus family of an evergreen plant. This fruit has other names - kinkan and fortunella. Outwardly, the kumquat looks like a very small oval orange. In length, it reaches a maximum of 5 cm, and in width - 4 cm. The fruit is consumed completely with the peel. The taste of the fruit is very close to sour tangerine, but the peel has a sweet-tart taste. The kumquat is native to southern China.

Lime

Lime is the fruit of a plant in the citrus family native to India, genetically similar to lemon.
Lime is a small tree or bush from 1.5 to 5.0 m high. The crown is dense, the branches are covered with short spines. Inflorescences are axillary, with 1-7 flowers, remontant flowering. Lime fruits are small - 3.5-6 cm in diameter, ovoid, lime flesh is greenish, juicy, very sour. The peel is green, yellowish-green or yellow, very thin when fully ripe.

Lemon

Although lemon is popularly considered the champion in the amount of vitamin C, in fact, in terms of the content of ascorbic acid, it does not stand out among other citrus fruits and even lags behind some of its “brothers”. But that doesn't make it useless. Traditional medicine includes lemon in prescriptions for "thousands of diseases": from seborrhea and arthritis, to constipation and tuberculosis. And scientific research is aimed at using lemon potential in therapy to restore liver function, reduce "bad" cholesterol and blood pressure.

Lychee

lat. Litchi chinensis- Chinese plum
A small sweet and sour fruit covered with a crusty skin. The fruit grows on evergreen tropical trees, the height of which reaches 10-30 meters. Homeland is China. The fruit has an oval or round shape with a diameter of 2.5-4 cm. The ripened fruit has a dense red skin with a large number of sharp tubercles. Only the pulp of the fruit is used for food, which has a jelly-like structure, and in color and taste resembles peeled white grapes. Inside the pulp is an oval brown bone. The main harvest of lychee occurs in May-June.

Longan (Lam Yai)

The fruit of an evergreen longan tree native to China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Indonesia.
The juicy flesh of the longan has a sweet, very fragrant, nephelium-like taste with a peculiar tinge. The color of the hard, inedible outer shell of the fruit varies from mottled yellowish to reddish. Like the Chinese lychee, the longan fruit contains a hard, dark red or black seed.

Mango

The evergreen mango tree has a height of 10 - 45 m, the crown of the tree reaches a radius of 10 m.
New leaves grow yellowish-pink, but quickly turn dark green. The flowers are white to pink, after opening they have an aroma similar to that of lilies. Ripe mango fruits hang on long stems and weigh up to 2 kg. The skin of a mango is thin, smooth, green, yellow or red depending on the degree of maturity (combination of all three colors is often found). The pulp of a mango can be soft or fibrous, also depending on the maturity of the fruit, it surrounds a large, hard, flat bone.

Mangosteen

Tall evergreen tree up to 25 m high with a pyramidal crown and black-brown bark. The leaves are oval-oblong, dark green above and yellow-green below, 9 - 25 cm long and 4.5 - 10 cm wide. Young leaves are pink. Flowers with fleshy green petals with red spots. The mangosteen fruit is round, 3.4 - 7.5 cm in diameter, covered on top with a thick (up to 1 cm) burgundy-violet inedible skin containing sticky coloring latex, under which there are 4-8 segments of white edible pulp with seeds tightly adjacent to it . Mangosteen bears fruit late - the first fruits on trees for 9-20 years of life.

Mandarin

There are many myths about mandarin. Many have probably heard that more than 4 fruits a day cannot be eaten? This is an exaggeration - there is no common table for all indicating the dangerous amount of this citrus. They also say that green leaves on a tangerine are a sign of its special freshness, that the oranger the peel, the sweeter the fruit, that the naringin contained in the zest directly burns fats, and that citruses in general and tangerines in particular are hardly the best source of vitamin C. All this is also not entirely true. But mandarin has properties that have long been in demand in folk medicine, which make it a promising product in the fight against some serious diseases.

passion fruit

An ancient tropical crop of the genus Passiflora that produces yellow or dark purple oval fruits (when ripe) growing on vines. Passion fruit is grown for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices for flavor. Passionfruit fruits are yellow-orange or dark purple fruits, oval in shape and about 6-12 cm in size. Fruits with smooth, shiny skin are preferred, but sweeter with rough, cracked skin.

medlar

tour. musmula
This is a whole genus of plants, which includes almost 30 species. However, there are two main cultivated types of medlar: German and Japanese. The German medlar has been known to mankind for more than 1000 years BC. In the territories of Ancient Babylon, Mesopotamia, it was freely traded, it was taken on ships to the west to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It was from here that the medlar came to European lands. To date, the German medlar grows in the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Crimean Mountains, Transcaucasia, Armenia, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Greece and northern Iran. The tree is quite finicky and grows well only in dry, sunny places and on slightly acidic soil.

Nectarine

A fruit that is a peach with a smooth skin. Despite the widespread myth, nectarine is obtained by selection or simple mutation of peaches and is not a peach-plum hybrid.
This classic example of a bud mutation occurs when peach trees self-pollinate. Nectarines sometimes appear on peach trees, and peaches on nectarine trees. Nectarines are first mentioned in 1616 in England.

Papaya

A low, slender tree with a thin, branchless trunk 5-10 meters high, crowned with an umbrella of palmately dissected leaves on long petioles. Papaya leaves are large, 50-70 centimeters in diameter. The flowers develop in the axils of the petioles, turning into large fruits, 10-30 cm in diameter and 15-45 cm long. Ripe papaya fruits are soft and have a color from amber to yellow.

Peach

A tree of the Rosaceae family, has a subgenus of almonds. It differs from almonds only in fruits. The leaves are lanceolate with a serrated edge and almost sessile, appearing before the development of the leaves, pink flowers. The fruit is a peach, spherical, with a groove on one side, usually velvety. The peach pit is wrinkly furrowed and punctately dimpled.

pomelo

English pomelo
Citrus fruits of the evergreen tree of the same name. The peel of the fruit is quite thick, and the slices are large, separated by hard white partitions, bitter in taste. The color of a ripe pomelo can vary from light green to yellow-pink. The pink color usually acquires only one side, which during ripening was turned to the sun. The fruit is the champion among citrus fruits. Its diameter can be 30 cm, and its weight can reach 10 kg. The taste of pomelo is very close to grapefruit, but the pulp is not so juicy and when peeled, the inner membranes are more easily separated from the edible part.

Pomeranian

It is also called Chinotto or Bigaradia - it is a woody evergreen plant belonging to the Rut family, a species of the genus Citrus. It is considered a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin. When fresh, the orange is considered inedible, and it is valued mainly because of the zest. The peel is quite easily separated from the fruit, you just need to cut it into 4 parts. The zest of oranges is used to make desserts. It is also often added to ice cream. For such a dessert, you need to take orange zest and juice, cream and sugar. All this must be beaten with a mixer and sent to freeze.

Citrus with the beautiful name Oroblanco, translated from Spanish - white gold. It is actually a variety of green grapefruit. Nutritional features are significantly different from the usual yellow fruit with red flesh. The only advantage that distinguishes it from relatives is sweet pulp. Sweetie grapefruit is quite rare in the store. For whatever reason, it is not in demand, most likely due to a large amount of waste, since its skin is about 2 cm, and the contents are sometimes very small. What is useful for a unique fruit, let's see.

Characteristics of the suite

In the experimental laboratory of the University of California in 1970, a new fruit was bred, which was later called sweetie. The main task of the breeders was to make the pulp of the grapefruit as sweet as possible. They succeeded, but it is worth noting its low demand compared to ordinary fruit. Since this is a hybrid of pomelo and grapefruit, there is a lot of waste in it, respectively, and buyers do not want to pay money for zest.

What is the difference between a grapefruit and a sweetie?

1. It looks like an ordinary grapefruit.
2. The size is smaller than the pomelo, the color of the zest is absolutely green. When the fruit is fully ripe, the skin color does not change.
3. The pulp is white-yellow, elastic, dense, sweet. Sweetie translates as candy.
4. The inside of the fruit has dense partitions that have retained the bitter taste familiar to this fruit.

The shape is flattened in relation to the top and bottom, while the grapefruit is round. It is not difficult to choose a suite so that it is tasty. The taste of the fruit is usually without sourness, which cannot be said about its bitter-sour relative.

How to eat fruit

To eat sweets, you must follow these recommendations:

1. On a thick skin with a knife, several cuts are made, from top to bottom.
2. Then it is worth peeling the peel along these cuts with your fingers. Remove the entire shell.
3. It is known that the internal membranes are elastic, bitter, so you can get rid of them. But if you eat them together with the pulp, there will be no harm.
4. Films are removed from each slice. The pulp is cleaned.

As you can see, it will not be difficult to clean the suites. The pulp is used for culinary purposes: as an ingredient for salads, desserts. Most often it is eaten on its own, as a fresh fruit. So it retains great benefits, vitamins, minerals.

grapefruit sweetie benefits

Green grapefruit is truly endowed with great benefits for humans. Its calorie content is very low and is about 70 kcal per 100 grams of product. This is a good indicator for lovers of a beautiful figure. It is included in the list of dietary products used for weight loss.

In addition, its beneficial properties make it a leader among other exotic fruits. The greatness of the retinue is the huge content of ascorbic acid and other organic acids. It's no secret that vitamin C helps to cope with colds, viral and infectious diseases.

1. As a person ages, a large amount of cholesterol accumulates in the blood. Sweetie will help get rid of it, cleanse the vessels of toxins and toxins, and make the walls more elastic. Thanks to this property, the fetus improves heart function, normalizes blood pressure, thins the blood.
2. The tonic effect of the tropical alien replenishes the body with energy, strength and vivacity. And finally, he is able to bring the nervous system into harmony with himself and cheer up.
3. The composition of the suite contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals that are necessary to compensate for their deficiency in the body. Among them: vitamins of groups B, A, E, zinc, potassium, magnesium, selenium, fluorine, etc., necessary for the normal functioning of all vital human systems.
4. Thanks to vitamins and minerals, immunity is strengthened, blues and depression recede.
5. Oroblanco restores the water balance in the body, thereby removing the swelling of the skin.
6. The pulp of the suite normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract, due to the high content of fiber.

Sweetie fruits are useful not only for an ordinary person, a child, but also in small quantities during pregnancy.

Important! The daily consumption of fruit for a pregnant woman should not exceed 3 parts of the fetus.

Harm and contraindications

The yellow sweet grapefruit is useful from all sides, but there are categories of people for whom the use of products from the fruit or itself is contraindicated. Among them:

• people with gastritis and stomach ulcers;
• with duodenal ulcer;
• with chronic kidney disease;
• with increased acidity of gastric juice;
• for digestive problems.

It is important to know! Excessive eating of it can lead to an allergic reaction to citrus fruits, the fact that small children and expectant mothers should eat it in small doses.

Which fruit you choose depends on its benefits and taste. When choosing, it is worth operating on some tips:

1. That fruit is juicy, which weighs more. Pre-check each fruit by weighing it figuratively in your hand, choose the heavier one.
2. It is difficult to determine ripeness by the color of the zest, but if it is slightly yellowish, then this indicates its ripeness.
3. Often, when choosing a product, even according to these parameters, it does not correspond to full ripeness, since it is imported to Russia unripe. And how much time is needed for full maturation is not known.
4. Store at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Suites are imported to Russia from Israel. Mass entry to the market occurs from November to January.

Application methods

It would seem that this is unusual, take it and eat it. But not many people know that very tasty delicacies can be prepared from it.

1. For people who are looking for harmony, a salad recipe is possible, which includes twisted pulp, spinach leaves, shrimp, chopped peanuts and onions. All ingredients are mixed and seasoned with olive oil. This salad is a great excuse to arrange a fasting day for yourself.
2. At night it is useful to drink a glass of vitamin cocktail, from the pulp of the suite. To do this, squeeze the juice from ½ part of the fruit and dilute it with clean water in equal proportions, add 1 tsp. honey and mix.

If you are on a diet, then try to include this fruit as much as possible, as its weight loss properties are simply unique.

There are a lot of possible recipes, how best to eat it is up to you.

Thanks to the development of scientists in the development of vitamin and tasty products, people receive new products every day, which are often a success. They brought out an exotic fruit similar in composition and taste to grapefruit - it will pomelit, oroblanco, white grapefruit, suites. Call it what you want, it will be about the same product, very useful for a person.