Fruit world

This week I want you to know something more about fruits that you can get in Peru. From among all the fruits we have in Poland, the unique one the Peruvians didn't know when I asked them where apricot. They have listened about it, but not eaten. 

I've tried some new fruits like granadilla, mangopapaya, lima, chirimoya, aguaymanto, tuna or lúcuma and I've also seen carambola, guayaba and cocona. Just have a look at the photo of a stand in a local market.

There are a lot of common fruits like strawberries, pineapples, apples, mandarines, grapes, pears or bananas. However, they distinguish more than one types of bananas. Normal, yellow bananas are two types: isla and seda. Other two types don't ripen, they are always green. Their names are palillo and bellaco. They sirve basically to fry. Bizcochito and manzanito are names of baby banana, smaller than the anterior mentioned.

But I will come back to the unknown fruits, because that's the principal subject of this post. Granadilla tastes like gooseberry. You need to break the peel or shell and a white layer to eat dark pips in a gelatinous transparent substance. It's delicious! And very fast to eat. Yo can use a teaspoon or suck the pips.

Mangopapaya, how you can see, is a mutation of mango and papaya. It has size of a papaya (bigger than mango) and colour of mango (not only it's yellow, but also red and green). It appears only in Peru.

Lima seems lemon, but it has shape of a mandarin and is more sweet. It's peel is like of an butterly: bright yellow with some green spots.

Chirimoya is one of my favourite fruits. It's green, big and with white flesh that doesn't remember any other fruit. It contains black stones (I should have been stolen them and planted in Polish ground! haha).

Aguaymanto looks like small yellow plums. Inside it has a lot of pips. It's quite acid. In the photo you can see aguaymanto (left side), carambola (the green one), cocona (the orange one) and guayaba (two yellow fruits). They are all used to be drunk in juices.

Tuna is fruit of a cactus. Out it's green, but the inside is red. It has pips very difficult to chew.

The last one is lúcuma. As in the case of mangopapaya, is the vernacular fruit of Peru. There are cookies and yogurt with this flavour. In Starbucks you can buy a coffee lúcuma too. It's my peruvian number one!!

Ohh... I am seriously thinking about import these delights!!