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Oriente (Amazonian Ecuador), Brazil
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).
Costa Rica
Cas
Costa Rican guava, intensely tart and aromatic, used for refresco de cas rather than eaten fresh, a uniquely Tico fruit, refreshing.
Guadeloupe
Guanábana
A Panamanian tropical soursop fruit, eaten fresh or in juices and desserts
Costa Rica
Mamón chino
Rambutan, red hairy fruit with sweet translucent flesh, slightly acidic, season July-October, a popular Costa Rican tropical fruit
Costa Rica
Granadilla
Sweet passion fruit variety, milder flavor than maracuyá, sweet orange pulp, aromatic, a Costa Rican tropical delicacy.