21 Amazing Exotic Fruits You Didn’t Know But Should

1. Mangosteen
You’ve probably heard about this exotic fruit but has no idea how it looks. It has been widely used as an ingredient in food supplements and skin care products for its anti-oxidant properties. Its taste has hints of strawberry and peach with a slight sourness.

2. Snake Fruit
At first sight, this exotic fruit will freak you out. It has a scaly reddish brown surface that looks like snake’s skin. But gently squeeze and peel off the fruit and a white pulp will surprise you with its pineapple-like taste.

3. Cape Gooseberry Or Inca Berry
You can prepare this exotic fruit much like how you would tomatoes. It looks like it too, only wrapped in what seems like a thin leaf. Hence, it’s also called tomatillos or physalis.

4. Buddha’s Hand
I’m seriously looking on how to grow this curious tree with fruits you can high five. This fruit does look like fingers earning it the name of the fingered citron. But it’s highlight is the exquisite fragrance and aroma. It is therefore widely used in perfumes and as a natural food flavoring.

5. Dragonfruit
The dragon fruit or pitaya is a cactus native to Mexico but has spread throughout the tropical areas of the world. This exotic fruit has a creamy pulp and a delicate aroma. It’s got seeds inside like of the strawberries.

6. African Cucumber
This exotic fruit is often called horned melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, and Kiwano. It’s got a taste which is a mix of cucumber, banana, and lemon.

7. Cherimoya
This exotic fruit is abundant in Hawaii and tropical regions of the world. It’s like a cross between a melon and an artichoke with a taste of banana, strawberry, and pear.

8. Rambutan
This weird-looking, hairy, exotic fruit is closely related to the lychee and is an abundant fruit in the tropical Southeast Asian region. Inside it, is a white pulp wrapped around a seed which you may harvest yourself and plant.

9. Jackfruit
This amazing exotic fruit has seeds and sweet flesh you can both eat. Its pulp has a taste of a combination of apple, pineapple, mango and banana. It’s got a strong aroma but not as strong and foul as the Durian. If you can’t take Durian, then you can try this less evil smelling relative.

10. Lanzones
Native to Southeast Asia, this exotic fruit, also called langsat, bears fruit in bunches like grapes. The fruit contains a translucent flesh divided into five segments. It has a sweet to tangy taste with bitter seeds within.

11. Durian
Called as the king of fruits in the Southeast Asian region, this fruit is known for its very distinct yet foul odor. However, its taste, as described by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, is “a rich custard highly flavored with almonds”.

12. Star Apple
The name is probably derived from the fruit’s crisscross segment when it is cut in half resembling a star. But it’s also called Milk fruit for the milky juices found inside. The fruit when ripe is usually deep purple in color but some remains green until ready for picking.

13. Guava Fruit
You’ve probably seen guavas before in tropical fruit drink labels. It’s one of the four fruits in the tropical drink four seasons. But you would surely want to try the actual fruit when it’s got four times the amount of vitamin C in oranges.

14. Wood Apple
Among the exotic fruits, the wood apple is one of the most weird-looking ones. It looks nothing like an apple but probably for a bit of its grainy texture. The insides of the fruit look like pudding and taste of raisins mixed with sour tamarind.

15. Star Fruit
We try to cut fruits into heart shapes for our kids when this one is an instant star after sliced across. It tastes of green apples when firm and green and becomes sweeter with hints of pear and citrus when ripe.

16. Dimocarpus Longan Berry
Longan is Chinese for eyeballs probably for the translucent pulp of this fruit. It resembles the lychee from the inside only having a red peel or rind.

17. Santol Fruit
The English name for this exotic fruit is cotton fruit, probably for its cottony and white pulp. It is also called wild mangosteen which looks exactly like the fruit from the inside.

18. Ciku Fruit
Try this fruit and you will observe an aftertaste of wine or beer. This is due to the sweet and malty flavor of the ripe fruits.

19. Water Apple
This fruit is also called the wax jambu, java apple, and rose apple although it looks nothing like an apple. It’s probably attributed only to its crimson color. It does not taste nor smell of apples but it’s got a bit of a similar texture.

20. Soursop Fruit
Soursop is now widely used as an alternative for treating cancer. Although no medical evidence supports this claim, food supplements use this fruit as an ingredient. This fruit, however, contains significant amounts of vitamin C, B1, and B2.

21. Miracle Fruit
This fruit is a miracle indeed when you take it before eating sour foods. A plain lemon will magically taste like lemonade after.

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