In distant South America, how many kinds of magical fruits are there that we have never seen before？

Original Fanbei E Chihuo Institute

"beyond the mountain ~ beyond the sea ~ there is a new continent ~ it is novel and mysterious, it is beautiful and rich ~ ~" The impulse to go to South America has a long history, not only because it is far away, but also because I know nothing about the natural scenery there. I don’t know if I don’t go. The world is really wonderful. It coincides with the rich season of melons, fruits, pears and peaches in summer. I have severely expanded my "food territory" in South America.

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Fruit suitable for direct eating

Passion fruit is one of the most common fruits in South America. It looks like passion fruit, but the seeds inside are harder. As the name implies, the flesh of the passion fruit is so sweet that it is too warm. If you eat two pieces of breakfast casually, the happiness brought by sweetness can last all day. In addition to eating directly, passion fruit is also often used to make desserts and ice cream with various flavors, and the taste is extremely inclusive.

passionfiowe herb

Don’t look at the dead horse fruit (lucuma), but you can’t pinch it completely when you pick it. Gently open it, there is not much water in it, and the pulp is soft and waxy, with extremely fresh and wonderful fruit fragrance. Mature Momordica cochinchinensis is extremely delicious, and its taste is very similar to the egg yolk fruit common in rural Guangdong. In addition to eating directly, Peruvians prefer to make milk shakes and various fruity desserts with it, and the final product is attractive light yellow.

Lu ku ma Guo

The cactus fruit bought in Bolivia can be described as colorful, light green, orange yellow, dark pink and gradual change … Where is this fruit? It is clear which painter brought the paint bottle. At this time, people can’t help but sigh: the magical nature has come clean about the beautiful fruits and decorated the original bleak and silent colors. Peel off the skin of the cactus, and the soft flesh is unceremoniously sweet, sweeter than the passion fruit, and very arrogant, as if swearing to be remembered before giving up.

Cactus fruit

I’ve only seen this kind of fruit in tropical rain forests. It likes to gather and grow together, and its trees can be as high as 35 meters. This kind of fruit is very popular in the local area, and even a child who is still wobbly when walking will chew it in the street with one in his hand. Although its skin looks like a snakeskin, it tastes completely different. Remove the epidermis, the pulp inside is hard and astringent, and the locals will dip it in salt directly, but I have never found an aesthetic point for this fruit.

Pterocarya curvata

The skin color of the milk fruit is like mangosteen, and the juice flowing out is milky white. This kind of fruit is also called starapple, which is named after the cut section is star-shaped.

Cow milk profile, wikipedia

Cow milk is the best fruit I have eaten during my forty days in South America. It is sweet, but it doesn’t usurp the host’s role. Soft, but not too greasy, from the inside out, it has the colorful fruit fragrance of Caribbean customs.

Dairy fruit

Cha?ar is a leguminous plant that grows in desert areas. I found it in the desert areas of northern Chile.

Chanar

This kind of fruit tastes like Elaeagnus angustifolia in northwest China, but locals often use it to make ice cream and special dishes with special tastes.

There is Chanel’s ice cream in the ingredients.

In the tropical rain forest area, I also found another form of Sakyamuni. It is yellow and prickly, and it is obviously a lot bigger. However, it tastes sweet and is called ice cream on the tree by locals.

sakya

Peach coconut is a kind of palm fruit. It’s really not wronged to be called "coconut". This kind of pulp tastes like chewing wood. In Colombia, you can often see vendors pushing carts to sell peach coconuts. People peel off its skin and then add honey and salt to it to make it sweet and salty. To put it bluntly, this kind of fruit doesn’t have a special taste, and it doesn’t have much water. It tastes like roasted corn and has a solid grain aroma.

Peach coconut

Lucid Gem tomato has no Chinese translation and is not widely circulated because it is so sour. Its flesh is hard and can be peeled like a potato. The flesh is crisp, but with each bite, the teeth will fall out in rows.

Annona spinosa, also known as durian with red hair, not only looks like durian in appearance, but is usually the size of durian. However, the pulp inside is more like Sakyamuni (it belongs to the same genus as Sakyamuni), and there is also a black stone in each petal.

Annona spinosa

This kind of fruit is extremely rich in juice and sweet and sticky. I bought a box of peeled Prunus spinosa in the supermarket. At first, I still felt very enjoyable, but at the end, I only felt very sweet and sad.

The pulp of annona spinosa

Amazon grape grows on a tall tree. Its flesh is sweet and its taste is crisp. Although its name is Grape and its appearance is similar, this fruit actually belongs to Urticaceae. Peeling off the purple-black skin, the white pulp texture looks like peeled litchi, which is really novel.

Amazon tree grape

Achacha grew up in Bolivia. Its appearance is perfect bright yellow, and its head is only the size of an egg. When peeled off, it is divided into several petals, which tastes like mangosteen. The whole fruit is permeated with faint plant sweetness. Although it was only seen on the plateau by chance, it is still unforgettable.

Achacha

I’ve heard of tree grapes before, but it’s the first time to see papaya in the Andes of Peru. Although it looks like papaya, its taste is not as delicious and sweet as common papaya. Open the pulp, the texture inside is infinitely close to that of a sponge, and it tastes like it. In particular, there are countless annoying small seeds in it, which makes people feel empty at the end (a bit like fried in August).

Papaya

On the left is Fijian fruit. You can smell the rich fragrance of guava through the peel. Unfortunately, the pulp is sour and the taste is a little rough. On the right is Banana Poca, yes, it is banana passion fruit. It looks like a banana in appearance, but it is exactly the same as the passion fruit inside. Compared with the desperate silly sweetness of the passion fruit, the banana passion fruit has a layer of sour taste, which is not only sweet and sour, but also rich in juice.

Fiji fruit (left) and banana passion fruit (right)

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Suitable for squeezing and drinking

Kuidong eggplant looks like tomato, smells like tomato, and cuts like tomato. In fact, they belong to Solanum. In Colombia, people like to squeeze it into juice with water. It tastes sweet and sour, and it can be used in tropical areas to stimulate appetite and relieve summer heat. Sometimes people mix it with a yellow pepper to make a hot and sour Chili sauce, which is both enjoyable and fluid-producing.

Kuidongqie

Cupuacu is a fruit I found in amazon rain forest. Although it belongs to the genus Cocoa, its taste has nothing to do with cocoa. Cocoa with large flowers tastes sweet and sour, and it tastes like pineapple juice when you add water to juice it.

Dahua cocoa

Camu Camu fruit looks like a grape, but the fruit is purple or light orange. Because it only grows in the rain forest area of the upper Amazon River in Peru, it is rare to see it elsewhere. Unfortunately, this kind of fruit is so sour that it can’t be eaten directly. People often squeeze it into sweet and sour juice with water. Every time I drink it, I can’t help feeling that the Amazon jungle is really a rich mine of plants!

Kamuguo juice

Unlike other fruits, which are generally attractive, morinda citrifolia looks ugly and tastes strange. In the fruit industry, it is the only one that has won the reputation of stinky tofu.

morinda citrifolia

However, in the Andes of Peru, this fruit is the raw material of a special drink, and people will mix it with frog juice (yes, you are right) to make a unique drink Jugo De Rana.

Jugo De Rana

Borojó is a common table drink in restaurants. It is so common that you don’t even need a formal drink cup to drink it, and you can even refill it indefinitely. Even if it is made into juice, Boluohuo’s taste is still rustling, and it tastes like a guava that is not mature enough. As you can see from the picture, the juice is even layered.

Boluohuo juice

Arazá looks like a beautiful guava, and its skin is smooth and bluish yellow. Cut the fruit, the taste inside is very sour, so in the tropical rain forest area of Amazon, people add water to make juice, and the finished product has the fragrance of citrus.

Cut the fruit of Stig, wikipedia

Acai grows on a tall tree like palm, and its fruit looks like blueberry. This kind of food is very popular in Brazil. People prefer to mix it in salads or make it into cool and delicious smoothies. In the hot weather, a cup of Assailly smoothie is cold and sweet, refreshing and refreshing. With chia seeds and orchid seeds, it can be a meal replacement.

Raspberry smoothies

Guarana is a vine-climbing plant. Its fruit is red and peeled off, but inside it is white pulp and black stone, which looks like devil’s eyes.

Guarana fruit flickr/A C Moraes

However, the fruit itself has no special taste, and people often mix it with bananas and other fruits to make a smooth milkshake.

Guarana’s milkshake

In the tropical rain forest area of Colombia, I found the simplest and most original way for local people to eat cocoa. People beat cocoa nuts into thick porridge and eat them with corn flour. At first, I wanted to try the original taste of food, so I volunteered not to add sugar. Who ever thought it was extremely bitter, like drinking crushed licorice slices? Who would have thought? Enjoy the silky chocolate in your mouth. At first, it was such a rough taste.

Cocoa fruit beverage

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Semi-processed fruit

Coconut juice is delicious, but who would have thought that thick and crisp coconut meat could be made into street snacks with sucrose? On the streets of Colombia’s capital, vendors often sell this kind of snack, which looks sweet and attractive, but tastes extremely hard, as if chewing an electrician’s big shoes.

Coconut candy

Tamarind is a common tropical fruit, but in South America, there are few sweet corners that are directly sold, and most of them are tamarind cakes made from this shell. Just buy a group, sweet and sour and delicious, which can be called the childhood "fruit peony bark" of South American children.

Tamarind cake

Ordinary Colombian breakfast is fruit "porridge". Bananas, mangoes and other cheap fruits are made into assorted soups with lots and lots of condensed milk. If you drink a sweet cup, you won’t want to eat all day.

Fruit "porridge"

In South America, I only stayed for forty days, but almost every day, I can find brand-new fruits that I have never seen or eaten. If it weren’t for sorting out the photo album, I even forgot that I had uttered a sigh of surprise again and again in the face of the colorful world at countless moments. South America is really a magical land that people are constantly looking forward to.

Big big big papaya

Street fruit mixed brocade

(* All photos without source indicated in the article were taken by the author)

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Original title: "How many kinds of magical fruits are there in distant South America that we have never seen before?"

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