(In the Americas, Mexico, Brazil, the Carribean) The berries can be hard to come by, but the frozen treat can be found all over Brazil, and in some major cities in the US. It has a strong, almost grape-like flavor, and can also be drunk in its slushier form from a glass, and shows up as a flavoring in other products. It’s a round, dark purple berry that’s sweetened, frozen solid and then mashed up and served along sliced bananas and granola along populated beaches in Brazil as açaí na tigela (açaí in a bowl). This is a fruit of a Brazilian palm that’s showing up as everyone’s favorite new anti-oxidant containing fruit. The fruit is mildly sweet, but it’s main punch is really it’s appearance. Rather than using one as a mace, buy one at the market, slice it lengthwise and scoop out the grayish pulp flecked with tiny, edible black seeds. These oblong yellow fruit are not weapons, though you wonder if they could be used as such in a pinch, all yellowish-orangey and covered with unkind spikes. (In the Armericas: Mexico, Central America, South American tropics, especially Ecuador) Careful on this last one, unless it’s cooked and preserved, many governments prohibit the importation of fresh fruits and veggies by your average traveler. Your tastebuds send thank you notes.īelow are 15 fabulous fruits you won’t just want to meet and forget, but will want to photograph, savor and take home. Waiting ‘til they show up at your local supermarket is another option. The usual warnings apply, peel it, cook it or forget it, but the more intrepid may try their hand washing them well (with clean water) building up a little local intestinal flora, or throwing caution to the wind. But beyond apples, bananas and oranges all over the world you can find people’s favorite fruits that look like something dreamt up by someone with a malaria-induced fever. Where to get it, how to find it, how much it cost, whether or not it made you sick. Perhaps the most colorful and loveable of the traveler trifecta of food, shelter and water is food.
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