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!?
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
It's a Vegetable known in Bangladesh as "Korolla"
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in Indonesia its called Pare, usually green, taste very bitter, we need to cook it first and eat with rice
it's called "margoze" and we have the green version here on Reunion island. (it's a bitter cucumber )
It's "Kudret Narı" in my language (Turkish) you can use google translate to look its translation
its called "Karela". It grows on tropical climates around the pacific.
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/
This is immature version of "KARELLA" atleast thats what it is called in urdu. Once ripe it is dark green when it comes to taste I personally dont like the taste but 80% of people I know love it
This is not the green one! Its different Its white karella
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In Dutch its called Witte Sopropo. Its a bitter tasting vegetsble. The more common sopropo is green like a cucumber. Its normaly eaten with white rice
This is a white bitter melon (Ampalaya). Usually its green. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordica_charantia
I ate something similar to this in Turkey. It was orange with reddish seeds & a little red liquid. No taste really. Not sure if is the same
Also know as bitter melon. It is used in herbal medicine to regulate blood sugar
Its Karela from India. Makes tasty veggie though bitter but its juice is a health tonic
It is white bittergourd and there are also the green one. You can find them in many asian countries.
we call it karela but we have this in green color very few people want to eat it because it really bitter but very good for health and skin
Bitter gourd or locally we call it Oostha in Bangladesh, it's a vegetable which is bitter in taste
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 :)
