As a child in New Zealand I loved Feijoa and ate many with glutinous pleasure. Recently someone gave me two huge bags of them and for those of you who have never heard of Feijoa I want to share this wonderful fruit with you.
Interestingly Feijoa has also been called "pineapple guava" or "guavasteen"!
Steemit knows how much I love pineapples!😉
New Zealand is not the only country which grows Feijoa and they can also be found in Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia and Russia.
The fruit is green, oblong and when ripe it is soft. They can be opened with your thumbs to access the soft fruit inside.
When you cut them open with a knife this is what they look like:
The fruit is soft and has a very distinctive and delightful smell. According to Wikipedia "the chemical methyl benzoate smells strongly of Feijoas and the aroma of the fruit is caused mostly by this and other closely related chemicals."
The taste is hard to explain. Feijoa's are very sweet with a jelly type of flesh. If I can think of a better description I will update the post. I will be glad to hear what other Steemians think Feijoa tastes like!
Fruit is the best and I love eating all kinds of fruit around the world! 😉
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I miss Fejoas - remind me of home, havent seen them here in Spain - bet they would cost heaps if they were here!
I remember as a kid having a couple of massive fejoa trees and pretty much having unlimted fejoas and taking bags of them to school to give to people
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What a lovely comment! Followed and UPvoted with pleasure! As a connoisseur what would you say they taste like? 😉
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Thanks followed you back ! :) Hmmmmmmm they taste like fejoas!
Hahaha no other fruit really compares, they are quite unique
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Would love to try that fruit.It does look like a guava.Can you cook with this? Or just have it cold.I am sure ive had a similar fruit to this india.
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It tastes nothing like a guava but I am working on amazing recipes to use this in.... my intuition is leading me to chunky dressings... perhaps salsa? LOL! 😉
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@jockey i hear you there.A nice chunky dressing or chutney.It will kind of be the texture of mango chutney.That would go amazing with my tunaliscious samosas you should check my last post.Make a whole meal out of it👍🏼.
If not make a cheesecake and use the fruit mash the pulp and layer on the top. Ooog you got me in creative mode now🤔🤔🤔
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I would love to taste it!
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Its Feijoa season here in NZ now, we don't have a tree but they are easy enough to come across (without paying). In our neighbourhood there are a few trees on public property and friends often drop a bag of fruit with us. They don't keep great so demand to be eaten as soon as possible!
Probably why they are not really an exportable commodity.
I understand they were originally from South America.
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