Looking for some new things to eat? Tired of the same old vegetable rack at your grocery store? Are pineapples passe? If this describes your state of mind, then prepare to get exotic with these strange fruits and weird vegetables from around the globe!
From yardlongs, which grow so fast that you can almost watch them get bigger, to durian, which smells like dirty gym socks but tastes like creamy almond custard, these are the wildest, most unusual fruits and veggies in the natural world. Sorry, no potatoes this time. Break out your bucket list and make some travel plans. You can't call yourself a true culinary adventurer until you've tried every exotic fruit on this list!
If something that looks like a meteorite explosion, a Fibonacci sequence or called "Ugli fruit" and "Gac," is your cup of tea, you weird fruit, then scroll along and check the most unusual vegetables!
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Fruit Of The Hala Aka Puhala Tree
Horned Melon
They taste a bit like a juicy cucumber, but there's so many damn seeds there's really not much to actually eat.
Rambutan
You can find it at some countries in Southeast Asia.. like Indonesia and Malaysia.. It's taste sweet and fresh..
Akebi
Pitaya
Also known as dragonfruit. Really yummy, not always white inside though as some are pink!?
Jackfruit
This is very regular in south India. I cant tell you the delicious dishes we can cook with this. The tender jackfruit peels (inside part) is used in curries with ground mustard. The ripened jackfruit's yellow part is so sweet and its seeds OMG my favourite. You can even boil the seeds and make delicious side dish or a simple salad with peeled and boiled seeds with salt
i love this especially its smell when it is about to be ripe. if its meat is ripe and yellow, it sweet and juicy. Filipinos also cook this when unripe, usually cooked with coconut milk. its seeds were boiled and can be eaten like chestnuts
I've seen these at H-Mart but I didn't want to buy 20 pounds of fruit just to try it. These things make watermelons look small.
This fruit can also be used as a savory dish if not ripe. And the seeds can be eaten as well if tenderized in a boiling water the texture will be like canned chestnuts.
There was a tree that had Jack Fruit. and no one ate any of it. Out of nowhere a black guy said he made barbeque sauce with Jack Fruit and bought most of the fruit. Next time he came, he brought some barbeque beef with him. The best BBQ sauce I ever tasted. Sad when he died. No one else knew his recipe.
Its quite tasty we cook it unripe as vegetable Its pickle is also made It has latex when cut unripe
Also known as langka or nangka in the Philippines. The seeds can be cooked and eaten like chestnuts.
the one in my backyard is very sweet.It bare fruit 2x a year.the seeds u can boil and eat them as well. (Philippines)
you can find it in Indonesia or Malaysia.. its called Nangka/Cimpedak. Sweet and Tasty! You can make vegetable curry with this too!
Yellow inside, the tast of this fruit is sweet. In Indonesia people also cook this fruit.
Sweet and tasty. Everything is food. A complete package for a family. Inner part is for human, and outer part for domestic animals
Have these a lot in Jamaica very nice but sticky if you don't mind the gum or stain
Purple Sweet Potato
Black Sapote (chocolate Pudding Fruit)
Anaar
Cupuaçu
Cherimoya Aka Ice Cream Fruit
david attenboroug ate it in a documentary. ive had it to. Its flavour is creamy and it is soft.
I Have No Idea What It Is.
It's Pare/Peria (momordica charantina). You can find it at Indonesia or Malaysia. This white one is Peria gajih, also from India or Africa
Guava(bangkok)
Kumquat
Chinese Long Beans
It's a vegetable, not fruit. This articles includes fruits and vegetables. It's called 20+ of the weirdest fruits and vegetables
Anaar
Kepel (stelechocarpus Burahol)
Kepel is a very rare and endangered tree from Central Java, Indonesia. The fruit grows on the lower trunk and has a sweet mango-like taste.
Jicama
Aboujahl Watermelon (how Do You Call It In English?)
Wow so many exotic looking fruits! I feel silly saying that they intimidate me to even try.
I had to go back to the YT vid I was watching to see the name apperently it is called a Pineberry
There was one fruit I was hopeing to find on this website but it wasn't here, I was looking to find facts about the.... umm dang it I forgot the name :c
Now, how can I buy this fruits in U.S.A?..Any idea, store, online?
The Philippines' "Sampinit" (wild raspberry) should be in the list. https://yobynos.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-rarest-wild-raspberry-of-the-philippines-sampinit/ https://yobynos.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/weed-no-more/
I have eaten the pink one with green and it tasted like kiwi! I love looking at exotic things!
many pieces among it's all there in Indonesia for example 3.mangosteen 6.rambutan 8 pitaya and red pitaya 9.jackfruit 10 salak 11.carambola
i see most of these fruits and vegetables are from the Philippines and other Souteast asian countries :)
Wow so many exotic looking fruits! I feel silly saying that they intimidate me to even try.
I had to go back to the YT vid I was watching to see the name apperently it is called a Pineberry
There was one fruit I was hopeing to find on this website but it wasn't here, I was looking to find facts about the.... umm dang it I forgot the name :c
Now, how can I buy this fruits in U.S.A?..Any idea, store, online?
The Philippines' "Sampinit" (wild raspberry) should be in the list. https://yobynos.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-rarest-wild-raspberry-of-the-philippines-sampinit/ https://yobynos.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/weed-no-more/
I have eaten the pink one with green and it tasted like kiwi! I love looking at exotic things!
many pieces among it's all there in Indonesia for example 3.mangosteen 6.rambutan 8 pitaya and red pitaya 9.jackfruit 10 salak 11.carambola
i see most of these fruits and vegetables are from the Philippines and other Souteast asian countries :)
