Exotic Fruits

Achacha

The fruit has a sorbet texture and causes a unique flavor sensation reminiscent of the flavors of mangosteen, longan, rambutan and litchi. It is eaten fresh but is also used for ice cream, soft...

Ackee

The colour of its skin is reddish, its pulp is yellow and when ripe it is segmented to reveal three arills of creamy colour, fleshy and bright, crunchy, slightly flavoured with hazelnut, smooth,...

African Plum

Angled Luffa

Babaco Fruit

Babaco is a subtropical species in the form of a semi-woody shrub. The fruits ripen after a period of eight to ten months, but are harvested from the tree before ripening, as they continue to ripen...

Banana

Botanically considered as a berry, banana is an edible plant produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants. It is generally sterile when it comes from domesticated varieties.

Banana Passionfruit

Curuba produces an elongated fruit with a weight of 50 to 150 g, whose pulp is yellow, very aqueous, acidic, but very perfumed, and used to make juices and nectars appreciated by the Colombians....

Baobab Fruit

The edible fruits are presented in the form of oblong peel, of floury pulp and a hundred seeds. It is large, ranging from 10 to 45 centimeters and shaped like a pear or melon. The dehydrated pulp...

Bitter Melon

Breadfruit

The fruits, weighing up to 6 kg, are between 9 and 45 cm long and between 5 and 30 cm in diameter. At first they are green, then they vary the yellow-green, and take a yellow or ochre-yellow tint...

Carom

The fruits can be harvested 45 to 90 days after the flowering, that is, the period in which the flower is fully open and functional. They can bear their first fruits at their 5th year. The yield of...

Ceylon Spinach (Plung)

The plant has the advantage, compared to the spinach of our regions, of giving several successive harvests. When young, its fleshy leaves are eaten raw or cooked in soups with other vegetables. It...

Chayote

Like sweet potato, this perennial plant develops thick rhizomes that are its reserve and conservation organs during the dry seasons. When tender it has a lustrous peel and hard consistency. It can...

Cocoa Bean

Global annual cocoa production is currently estimated at 5.3 million tons. With about 29% of the annual global harvest, Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans, with a volume...

Coconut

Custard Apple

Fleshy fruit, with a diameter of a tennis ball and the shape of a large heart covered by a velvety green peel. It takes 5 to 8 months to mature. It goes from green to almost black. It contains...

Duku

As its name indicates, the Duku-Langsat has characteristics that refer to the two varieties of its denomination. Its fruit is arranged in clusters of 5 to 25 units, of an ovoid form, with thick...

Durian

Thailand is the world’s leading producer of this fruit. It is followed by Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. To a lesser extent, Durian is also harvested in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Burma,...

Feijoa

Although the Feijoas are native to South America, they were adopted in the antipodes by Australians and more so by New Zealanders, who turned them into an export industry. Of course, these fruits...

Fresh Date

Although there are more than three hundred of them, the most widespread variety in European markets is Deglet Nour, a variety of dates from the North African regions of Biskra and Tozeur. Europe...

Gac Fruit

The fruit is usually round or oblong, measures about 13 cm long by 10 cm in diameter, and becomes progressively dark red when ripe. Pollination can be assisted by insects, but manual pollination...

Ginger

This rhizome is applied as a spice in the Asian culinary world, especially in India. It is also used in the West due to its medicinal properties, and for the manufacture of ginger ale (soft drink)...

Granadilla

Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower. It has a tough outer rind and juicy, seed-filled center. It is native to Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina, and Brazil.

Guava

The skin is extremely thin and subtle, with a shade that varies from green to yellow, these being the colors between the growth phase and ripening respectively. In some varieties the crop can have...

Jaboticaba Fruit

Jacato

Jack Fruit

This little-known tropical tree in our lands is actually a cousin of the breadfruit. From the third year, some species, like Singapore’s Jackfruit, are able to grow fruit. However, it usually takes...

Japanese Loquat

Jujube

Jujube is always grown in its region of origin but, as it is very rustic, it has spread widely across all continents. The world demand for jujube extract, which is constantly on the rise, strongly...

Kiwano

Kiwi

The name Kiwi was proposed in 1959 by the New Zealand company Turners and Growers for patriotic and political reasons. Kiwi is, on the one hand, the vernacular name of the apterygiforme, emblematic...

Langsat

Litchi

Fruit tree of the Sapindaceae family, the Chinese Litchi (Litchi chinensis) produces the edible fruit which bears the same name. The name comes from the Cantonese 荔枝 whose translation in...

Longan

Lucuma

Mango

The mango is a fleshy fruit that can weigh from 0.3 to 2 kg. In botany, it is a drupe whose pulp adheres to a wide, flat and slippery bone. It can be round, oval or reniform, and has a yellow,...

Mangosteen

Melon Pear

Nashi

Okra

The fruit is a capsule that can measure from 8 to 25 cm long. It is hairy, angular, ovoid-lanceolate, and pointed. It must be harvested before it fully matures, otherwise they become fibrous...

Papaya

Papaya is always a fruit of intense commercialization. Annual world production is currently estimated at 15 million tons and is concentrated in Asia at 51 per cent, in the Americas at 39 per cent...

Passion Fruit

Passion fruit is the fruit of the Passiflora vine, a type of passion flower. It has a tough outer rind and juicy, seed-filled center. It is native to Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina, and Brazil.

Pea Eggplant

Wild eggplant is grown as a vegetable in South and South-East Asia. It is especially appreciated in Thailand, where it is systematically incorporated into many curries. In Côte d'Ivoire it is used...

Persimmon

The persimmon is an edible fruit of trees in the genus Diospyris. This fruit belongs to the Ebenaceae family. The most videly cultivated varieties are called Japanese Persimmon and Asian Persimmon....

Physalis

Pineapple

Pineapple accounts for about 20% of global tropical fruit production. It is the second most cultivated exotic fruit on the planet after bananas. Thailand and the Philippines are the two largest...

Pitahaya

Pomegranate

Prickly Pear

The Barbary Fig has a flexible skin and is bristled with small spikes. It is usually eaten natural and as a compote, and also serves to prepare juices, ice cream, jellies and jams.

Quenepa Fruit

Rambutan

Rose Apple

The edible fruit is a yellow berry of 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter. Its internal texture is stretched to the point of giving the appearance of a hollow fruit in which a single seed resounds like...

Sanky

Santol Fruit

Sapodilla

Sapote Fruit

Snake Beans

It is a plant widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Asia. It is even one of the top ten vegetables in Southeast Asia, especially in Taiwan, South China and...

Snake Fruit

Soursop

The fruits are syncarps ovoid or heart-shaped. The largest can measure up to 40 cm in length with a weight of 7 kg. It has a dark green peel and is covered with thorns. The inner part consists of a...

Star Apple

Star Gooseberry

They look like white grapes, however, their section shows a six-pointed star, from where it takes its name. Its juicy pulp of firm consistency is very acidic. The core contains 4 to 6 small seeds....

Tamarillo

Tamarind

Tomatillo

Winged Bean

When ripe, they acquire an ash brown colour and open to release the seeds. Its nutritional content is similar to that of soybeans, since winged bean seeds contain between 30% and 40% protein and...