Fruits

🇦🇹Styria, Austria

Pöllau Stag Pear

Pöllauer Hirschbirne

The protected Pöllau Stag Pear is an aromatic, tannic regional pear eaten fresh and made into preserves and drinks.

🇦🇺Australia

Quandong

Native Peach

Small bright red fruit with tart flavor like peach-apricot cross and almond-like pit, high in vitamin C, used in jams and desserts, a traditional Aboriginal bush food.

🇱🇺Luxembourg Moselle, Luxembourg

Quetsche Plum

Quetsche

Dark, juicy plum of the Moselle valley, the base of Luxembourg's signature tart and brandy.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Rambutan

Mamón chino

Rambutan, red hairy fruit with sweet translucent flesh, slightly acidic, season July-October, a popular Costa Rican tropical fruit

🇦🇺Australia

Riberry

Cherry Satinash

Small red pear-shaped fruit with tart, spicy flavour hinting of cloves and cinnamon, related to culinary clove, bright red color with spicy aroma, a native bush tucker ingredient.

🇵🇹Portugal

Rocha Pear

Pêra Rocha do Oeste

Pêra Rocha do Oeste is a protected Portuguese pear from Oeste with green-yellow skin, russeting, crisp-to-melting flesh, and balanced sweetness.

🇯🇵Chubu, Japan

Ruby Roman Grapes

ルビーロマン

Ruby Roman grapes, sold at auction for record sums and gift-boxed as single bunches, are bought as themselves and are a genuine expression of Japan's luxury-fruit culture.

🇵🇭Philippines

Saba Banana

Saba

A short, thick, starchy banana variety used in both sweet and savory Filipino dishes, from turon to pochero.

🇮🇱Israel

Sabra Fruit

צבר

Prickly pear from the cactus hedges that mark old field boundaries, peeled with gloves and eaten cold in high summer.

🇸🇦Madinah, Saudi Arabia

Safawi Dates

تمر صفوي

Safawi Dates are a soft, moist Medina variety ranging from dark brown to black, with very sweet flesh and a profile similar to Ajwa.

🇨🇬Republic of the Congo

Safou

A purple-black oily fruit roasted or dipped in hot water until the flesh softens into something between avocado and olive, eaten with maize.

🇸🇦Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Segai Dates

تمر صقعي

Segai Dates are a Riyadh Province variety with a golden tip over a brown body, firm flesh, and balanced sweetness.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Seville Gordal Olives

Aceituna Gordal de Sevilla

Seville Gordal Olives are exceptionally large, fleshy green table olives prized for their firm, fibrous bite after fermentation.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Seville Manzanilla Olives

Aceituna Manzanilla de Sevilla

Seville Manzanilla Olives are medium-sized green table olives with a rounded oval shape, firm flesh, and a balanced briny cure.

🇧🇶Bonaire

Shimaruku

Shimaruku is a Bonairean/local cherry (Malpighia emarginata) with small red, tart fruits from a drought-tolerant shrub or tree.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Snake Fruit

Salak

Salak is a palm fruit with reddish-brown scaly skin and crisp sweet-tart flesh that peels into segments.

🇲🇿Mozambique

Sobremesa de Abacate

Ripe avocado sweetened and served as a creamy Mozambican dessert.

🇬🇪Georgia

Sour Plum

Ტყემალი

A small sour plum picked green in spring and red later, used for sauce, fruit leather and the spring lamb stew rather than eaten raw.

🇧🇮Burundi

Steamed Plantains

Ibitoke

Green plantains (ibitoke) boiled or steamed until soft, eaten as a starchy side with stews and beans; the Kinyarwanda word for plantain, ibitoke is the staple carbohydrate of the Rwandan table alongside cassava and sweet potato.

🇲🇹Malta

Stuffed Olives

Żebbuġ mimli

Large green olives stoned and packed with anchovy, tuna, garlic or almond and served as a bar snack.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Stuffed Papaya

Halved papaya filled with spiced meat or vegetables and baked — a PNG dish that combines the abundance of tropical fruit with savoury fillings.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

Sufri Dates

تمر سفري

Sufri Dates are a widely cultivated Saudi variety with golden-to-brown skin, sweet flavor, and a firm texture suited to commercial storage.

🇸🇦Qassim, Saudi Arabia

Sukkari Dates

تمر سكري

Sukkari Dates are a Qassim variety with golden-yellow skin and moderately sweet flesh, firm and crunchy at the khalal stage.

🇨🇱Chile

Sweet Cucumber

Pepino dulce

Sweet cucumber-like fruit native to Chile, with yellow skin and crisp sweet flesh, a unique Andean fruit.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Sweet Passion Fruit

Granadilla

Sweet passion fruit variety, milder flavor than maracuyá, sweet orange pulp, aromatic, a Costa Rican tropical delicacy.

🇸🇾Damascus, Syria

Syrian Apricots

مشمش

Small, intensely perfumed apricots from the Ghouta orchards outside Damascus, dried into sheets or eaten fresh in June.

🇮🇱Israel

Table Olives

זיתים

Green and black olives cured in brine with lemon, garlic and chilli, put on the table unasked at any grill restaurant.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Taiwanese Pineapple

鳳梨

Sweet, low-acid pineapple with a core soft enough to eat, grown mostly around Chiayi and Tainan and harvested from spring.

🇫🇰Falkland Islands

Teaberries

Seasonal native berries bring floral, juniper-like notes to Falklands desserts and preserves.

🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

The Vale of Clwyd Denbigh Plum

The Vale of Clwyd Denbigh Plum is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇨🇴Colombia

Tomate de Árbol (Tree Tomato)

Tomate de árbol

A red-orange Andean tamarillo with tart seed-filled flesh, used for juices, ají, and desserts in Colombia and Ecuador.

🇧🇷Brazil

Tucumã

An orange Amazonian palm fruit with firm, oily flesh, eaten raw, in tucumã rings, or with manioc flour.

🇵🇬Papua New Guinea

Tulip

Edible pitpit — the young flower spike of a Setaria grass, cooked and eaten as a vegetable in the PNG Highlands; a seasonal delicacy with a tender, corn-like flavour.

🇧🇷Brazil

Uvalha

A small fragrant Brazilian Atlantic-Forest fruit used fresh, in juices and in homemade preserves.

🇨🇭Valais, Switzerland

Valais Apricot

Walliser Aprikose

Apricots from the Rhône valley terraces, small, deeply coloured and picked ripe rather than shipped hard.

🇲🇺Mauritius

Victoria Pineapple

Ananas Victoria

A small, deep-yellow pineapple variety grown in Mauritius and Réunion, sweeter and less acidic than the export types.