The Other Fad Fruit
by TreeHugger on 05. 2.05
We’ve been seeing pomegranates in the news so frequently these days but we’ve got another fruit that’s starting to make it to celebrity status as well. Acorn-shaped and bright orange-skinned persimmons are the new trendsetting fruit with their custardy-texture and rich, sweet flavor. Although persimmons were originally grown in Japan, California now provides 95% of them in the US. You can just slice them and eat them, but beware because when they aren’t ripe they’re extremely tart. So wait until they are really, really squishy. Even when the skin reaches their full peak in color, they are still puckery. Check Local Harvest for where to buy them fresh or Just Tomatoes for a quick snack. Via:: Health Magazine [by KD]
I don't mean to post a vacuous comment, but the thought of eating fruit with a custardy texture grosses me out. It would be like squeezing out the guts of a really way-far-gone black banana and eating it with a spoon. EWWWWWWWW.
I had a persimmon tree growing up and I won't touch the things with a ten foot pole. It is a texture thing. Really mushy fruit never sat well with me.
Now pomegranates, that's a different story. I used to strip our pomegranate tree bare and my fingers would be dyed red for weeks.
I've always like the other kind of persimmon a lot more, the hard, flat kind, instead of hachiya. But they're both good! Just that fuyu is more easy to take around and eat, it's like more portable, since it's not all mushy.
That pic is of sharon fruit, not persimmons.
No, what is in the pick is a persimmon. Over here in Australia they've been available for quite a long time, and I recommend them, especially a bit on the hard side, and they get mushy and over ripe very quickly.
Persimmons are one of my favorite fruits and I must say that I have never eaten one that is "acorn-shaped" or had a custard texture. In fact, they are slightly firm and have somewhat of a crunch to them; I would say it's something like a pear.