Fruits

🇧🇷Brazil

Camu Camu

Amazonian wild fruit, an exceptional natural source of vitamin C, far exceeding oranges. Used in drinks, dairy, and nutraceuticals.

🇧🇷Amazonas, Brazil

Canangucha

An Amazonian palm fruit native to Colombia, with purple skin and oily, orange flesh. Used in juices, ice cream, and oil, a staple of the Amazon diet.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Cart Pineapple with Chilli Salt

Ananas confit

Victoria pineapple peeled, spiralled and cut on the spot, dusted with salt and crushed chilli.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Cempedak

Cempedak is a tropical fruit related to jackfruit, with strongly aromatic orange flesh that is softer and less fibrous than jackfruit.

🇵🇪Peru

Cherimoya

Chirimoya

Creamy, sweet Andean fruit rich in B vitamins. Mark Twain called it 'the most delicious fruit known to man.'

🇸🇲San Marino

Cherry Soup

Zuppa di ciliegie

A traditional Sammarinese dessert of cherries stewed in sweetened red wine, served on white bread; a simple, rustic dessert from the cherry season; the cherries soak up the wine and sugar; the bread absorbs the juices; a Wikipedia-listed dish; the cherry soup of San Marino's summer.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chinola

Dominican passion fruit (chinola), with purple or yellow skin and orange, seedy pulp. Used in juices, desserts, and sauces, a tropical national favorite.

🇧🇷Oriente (Amazonian Ecuador), Brazil

Chontaduro

A palm fruit native to the Colombian Pacific and Amazon, with orange-red skin and starchy yellow flesh. Eaten with salt or honey, a staple of Pacific cuisine. On Cali streets the boiled fruit is sold in paper bags with salt and lime (chontaduro con sal).

🇵🇪Peru

Cocona

A tart Amazonian fruit used in Peru for juices, sauces and refreshing salsas.

🇨🇴Colombia

Colombian Cape Gooseberry

Aguaymanto

A Colombian cape gooseberry, a small, orange fruit in a papery husk, tart and sweet. Eaten fresh or in jams and desserts, a highland export crop.

🇨🇱Chile

Copao

Native cactus fruit from northern Chile, bright and tart, a desert delicacy, traditional and rare.

🇨🇴Colombia

Corozo

A Caribbean-coast palm fruit with red-purple skin and tart, fibrous flesh, used in juices and chicha. A coastal specialty, sweet-tart and refreshing.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Costa Rican Guava

Cas

Costa Rican guava, intensely tart and aromatic, used for refresco de cas rather than eaten fresh, a uniquely Tico fruit, refreshing.

🇭🇳Honduras

Coyol en Miel

The small hard fruit of the coyol palm boiled slowly in cane syrup with cinnamon until the flesh softens and takes the sugar.

🇧🇿Belize

Craboo

Small yellow nance fruit with a strong cheesy-fermented smell and a sweet-sour taste, eaten raw with salt, stewed in syrup or turned into wine.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Cracked Green Olives

Ελιές τσακιστές

Green olives cracked with a stone, cured in water and dressed with lemon, coriander seed and garlic.

🇧🇷Brazil

Cupuaçu

Copoazú

An Amazonian fruit with a tart, fragrant pulp used in juices, ice creams, mousses, and desserts, with a flavor likened to cocoa and pineapple.

🇨🇴Colombia

Curuba

Taxo

A Colombian banana-passion fruit, with yellow-green skin and orange, seedy pulp. Used in juices and desserts, a highland specialty, tart and aromatic.

🇦🇺Australia

Davidson Plum

Ooray

Dark purple fruit with sharp acidic taste and deep red flesh from rainforests, high in antioxidants, extremely tart, used in jams and sauces, a rare native gourmet ingredient.

🇩🇿Algeria

Deglet Nour Dates

دقلة نور

Translucent Deglet Nour dates, a named Algerian oasis product also cultivated in Tunisian groves.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Diddle-dee Berries

Native red diddle-dee berries are tart raw and used locally for jam and preserves.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Dominican Limoncillo

Limoncillo

A Dominican tropical fruit in a green shell, with yellow, sweet-tart, gelatinous pulp around a large seed. Eaten fresh as a snack, a summer street favorite.

🇸🇩Sudan

Doum Fruit

Doum

The fibrous, gingerbread-flavoured fruit of the doum palm, gnawed for its dry outer layer or ground and soaked into a drink.

🇧🇱Saint Barthélemy

Dragon Fruit

Pomme Raquette

Cactus fruit (Hylocereus) with pink skin and white or red flesh dotted with tiny black seeds; used on St. Barts to color traditional barley sugar candies red; the fruit has a mild sweet flavor and is eaten fresh or used in desserts and drinks.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Dried Apricots

Өрүк

Apricots sun-dried whole with the stone still in, dark brown rather than orange because no sulphur is used.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Durian

King of fruits with creamy custard-like flesh and strong aroma, creamy texture with balanced bitter-sweet and ripe flesh, a legendary Malaysian icon, and divisive

Produce

Fardh Dates

تمر فرض

Fardh Dates are an Omani cultivar with black skin and small seeds; the moist, sweet fruit keeps its shape well and resists wrinkling during storage.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Feijoa

Green egg-shaped fruit with a scented, granular flesh, ripening in autumn and famously dropped on neighbours' doorsteps.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Granadilla Ecuatoriana

Granadilla

A sweet Ecuadorian passion relative with a hard orange shell and gelatinous, seed-filled pulp. Eaten by scooping the insides.

🇧🇷Brazil

Guabiroba

A fragrant yellow Brazilian native fruit eaten fresh or made into juices, sweets and regional liqueurs.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Guanábana (Soursop)

Guanábana

A Panamanian tropical soursop fruit, eaten fresh or in juices and desserts

🇲🇫Saint Martin

Guavaberry

Small wild berry native to Sint Maarten, national symbol; not related to guava; rare fruit found in warm hills in the center of the island; used to make liqueur, jam, and tarts; a distinctive Sint Maarten specialty.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Guavirá

Small orange fruits of the Paraguayan Atlantic forest, intensely aromatic with tart yellow flesh around one large seed and several times the vitamin C of an orange.

🇯🇲Jamaica

Guinep

Bunches of small green-skinned fruit cracked open with the teeth to reveal a sweet-sour pink pulp around a large seed.

🇦🇿Goychay, Azerbaijan

Göyçay Pomegranate

Nar

Göyçay Pomegranate is the celebrated Azerbaijani pomegranate crop associated with the Goychay district and its autumn harvest.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Haft Mewa

هفت میوه

Seven dried fruits and nuts — raisins, apricots, pistachios, walnuts, almonds, senjed and hazelnuts — soaked together for days.