10 weird fruits and vegetables from around the world

Wondering what the story is behind that strange-looking food in your local produce section? Best Health has your guide to 10 weird fruits and vegetables from around the world
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1. Cherimoya - 10 weird fruits and vegetables from around the world Web exclusive, June 2010

1. Cherimoya

No, it's not a funky artichoke—this heart-shaped fruit native to South America is a cherimoya, also referred to as a "custard apple." While it may be rough and bumpy on the outside, the actual fruit flesh is smooth and creamy, like custard. Described by Mark Twain as “deliciousness itself,” a ripe cherimoya blends flavours of pineapple and banana. Can’t find it in your grocery store? Bottled water brand Aquafina now makes a Tropical Cherimoya flavoured water.

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Remember to get the black ones, the red one is still green, i.e., not sweet! It's delicious!

Just love this fruit!! We called it Atemoia in Brazil.

Two more strange, but delicious, fruits to eat:

The Common Medlar (Mespilus germanica), is a large shrub or small tree. It is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe, mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey.Common Medlar is one of the few fruit that becomes edible in winter. The reddish-brown medlar fruit is a pome, 2–3 cm diameter, with wide-spreading persistent sepals giving a 'hollow' appearance to the fruit. They become edible after being softened ('bletted') by frost, or naturally in storage given sufficient time. Once softening begins the skin rapidly takes a wrinkled texture and turns dark brown, and the inside reduces to the consistency and flavour reminiscent of apple sauce.
Sorbus domestica (Service Tree, or sometimes True Service Tree) to distinguish it from the Wild Service Tree. The fruit is a pome 2–3 cm long, greenish-brown, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight; it can be either apple-shaped or pear-shaped. The fruit is a component of a cider-like drink which is still made in parts of Europe. Picked straight off the tree, it is highly astringent and gritty; however, when left to blet (over-ripen) it sweetens and becomes pleasant to eat.

 
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