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durian

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Regarded as the ‘king of tropical fruit’. The durian, native to Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, has been known to the Western world for about 600 years. Described as tasting like heaven and stinking ...

mangosteen

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A tropical fruit with sweet juicy white segments of flesh inside a thick reddish-brown rind.

salak

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

Better known as snake fruit, it is grown in Indonesia and Malaysia. The name salak means bark. The fruit is covered in brown bark/skin which looks identical to snake skin. Eating it is easy as you ...

lucuma

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

Commonly known as the egg fruit, it originates from the Andean Region in Peru. It is also popularly used as an ice cream flavor in countries like Chile and Peru. It is rarely found in Europe and in ...

purple mangosteen

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

t is popularly grown in Malaysia and Indonesia. The rind is purple when ripe. When the juice comes into contact with clothes, the stain is permanent. The inner layer, which is white, is sweet and ...

pink banana

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

We all know what a banana is. We also know that all bananas should be yellow when ripe and green when not. There, however, is another type of banana that people do not know about; the pink one. The ...

marang

Fruits & vegetables; Fruits

A large rounded fruit with soft spines. The segments taste like marshmellow. Cultivated commercially in the Philippines.

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