According to Mysterious World’s poll, the 15 fruits below are considered delicious and rare because they can only be grown in certain areas. Let’s explore to see how many fruits you’ve eaten!
1. Ackee fruit
This fruit is in the same family as the lychee but has a pear-like shape and originates from tropical West Africa. These are ingredients in a traditional Jamaican dish: ackee and salt fish. When ripe, the Ackee fruit is orange and splits into 3 parts.
2. Rambutan
This is a fruit variety belonging to the Sapindaceae family, originating from Southeast Asia. Rambutan fruit has many hairs covering the outside, when ripe it is red and has a sweet taste.
3. Pistachio fruit
This fruit is also known by many other names such as lantern, larva or bop bop, scientific name is Physalis angulata, belongs to the nightshade tree, originating from South America. The smooth, round fruit is covered by a layer of transparent leaves. When ripe, the fruit is dark yellow and tastes similar to tomatoes.
4. Plinia Cauliflora (woody grape)
A type native to Southeast Brazil. In appearance, Plinia Cauliflora fruits look exactly like grapes, but they do not form clusters but grow directly on the trunk. When ripe, the fruit is purple, white flesh, sweet and fragrant.
5. Kiwano Cucumber – Horned Cucumber
This strange fruit has an elongated shape and many thorns on the outside. When ripe, the fruit is orange-yellow in color, has green flesh, many seeds, and tastes a mixture of cucumber and zucchini. This strange fruit is a traditional food and an important food source for Africans.
6. Durian
With its special flavor, durian is known as the “king of fruit” in Southeast Asia. This fruit originates from Indonesia and Malaysia. The fruit is quite large in size, with a shell full of sharp thorns covering the fragrant golden flesh inside. Its taste is very strong, not everyone can eat this fruit.
7. Miracle Berry – Miracle Berry
Just eat this fruit, then eat anything, whether sour, spicy, bitter… the person who eats it will still feel sweet. This is the reason people call it a miracle fruit. The miracle fruit is native to the tropical forests of West Africa.
8. Mangosteen
This fruit originates from Indonesia. When ripe, the fruit is purple in color, the outer skin is quite thick, the intestine is divided into many white segments, and has a sweet and fragrant taste.
9. Cherimoya – Soursop
It is a fruit of the custard apple family, originating from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Cherimoya fruit tastes like a mixture of banana, pineapple, papaya, peach and strawberry. The seeds of this fruit are poisonous so you cannot eat the seeds.
10. Cupuaçu fruit
It is a fruit of the mallow family with the scientific name Theobroma Grandiflorum, only found in Brazil and used to produce chocolate. This fruit has a very high nutritional content, so it is considered a “super fruit”. Although it has an unattractive shape, it has a very delicious taste, a great combination of chocolate and pineapple.
11. Theobroma Grandiflorum
This is a fruit belonging to the mallow family, containing extremely high nutritional content, considered a “super fruit”. Theobroma Grandiflorum is native to the Amazon rainforest (South America). The fruit’s flesh is also used to make skin moisturizers.
12. Black Sapote
Black persimmon or chocolate persimmon is a very delicious, sweet tropical fruit with a chocolate-like flavor. When unripe, its skin is green and shiny, and when ripe, it is green-brown and slightly “wrinkled”. This fruit originates from Mexico.
13. Snakeskin fruit (Salak)
Salak fruit is a specialty of Indonesia. Its outer shell is quite hard and looks like reddish brown scales so they are also called snakeskin fruit. Salak is a palm fruit that grows in clusters and has an aroma and taste like a combination of pineapple, banana and peanuts.
14. Akebia fruit
This is a wild fruit, often found in the high mountains of Japan, with a taste similar to wild strawberries that many people love. When ripe, Akebia fruit will taste sweet, a bit like milk, and the flesh will be fragrant and soft, so it is often used in desserts. In addition, people also use the peel of Akebia fruit to stuff meat, creating flavor.
15. American Tomato (Tamarillo)
This is a type of tomato originating from tropical regions of South America. This type of American tomato has a red-purple skin. When opened, it is very similar to a regular red tomato but has a very fragrant smell. This fruit has a lot of meat and has a delicious, slightly sweet and sour flavor when eaten.