1) Kiwano Melon
Kiwano Melon
This spiky Kiwano melon, is steadfastly-inedible fruit and beloved fruit in any cultures and commonly called “cuke-asaurus”. This gelatinous fruit tastes like sweet cucumber wit a slight tart after taste.
2) Romanescu or Romanesco
Romanesco Vegetable
Closely related to cauliflower or brocolli you will surely like this unique healthy vegetable, loaded with antioxidants.
3) Buddha’s Hand
Buddhas Hand Fruit
This finger-like citron fruit is popular because of its unique shape and fragrant citrus very common in Asia. The peel is thick, and have tiny amount of seedless, dry flesh that is similar to lemon.
4) Durian
Durian Fruit
This spiky fruit has foul odor, but so delicious and sweet found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Davao in the Philippines. During the harvest season of durian, no one is allowed to get near the trees, because ripe durian falls on the ground and would be fatal if a person is under the durian tree. The spike of durian are hard and pointed.
5) Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera Deliciosa
Weird, unusual and rare fruit is not well known in the United States, but most popular elsewhere as a food and household plant and is very tasty. Though it has a pungent and unpleasant odor that emits when the kernel began ripen and pop off and the sweet pineapple flesh like beneath and can be consumed.
6) Paw Paw Fruit
Paw Paw Fruit
Otherwise called as North American bananas, prairie banana, Hoosier banana and poor man’s banana and grows in the Southeastern of Unites States. Resembling bananas, but shorter and with a more fragrant smell when ripe. These are popular local fruit but not yet available in the market.
7) Dragon Fruits
Dragon Fruit
Dragon fruits or Pitaya fruits, filled with a flesh speckled throughout with tiny black edible seeds, the fruits looks-like taro fruit or creamy like ice cream and taste like mild, sweet and creamy fruit with kiwi fruit like texture. Commonly found in Asia.
Jagotocaba
Jagotocaba Fruit
It looks like Plum fruits, sweet and grows in Asia.
9) Star Fruit
Star Fruit
Star fruit are commonly called carambola in native to Sri Lanka and Balimbing in native to Philippines. Taste like grape, mango and lemon all in one. It’s sometimes sweet when ripe but mostly it is sour with a tart tinge. Green when unripe and yellow when ripe.
10) Goats beard
Goats beard
This Goats beard or salsify roots, are popular in Europe and Southern United States use to add flavor for cooking soups to stew. This fishy flavored roots taste like oysters so it is commonly called “oyster plant”. The flowers and stems are not eaten, it’s the pungent root that is popular.