Looks Like Philippine Mango...

It just look like from the Philippines but this mango is actually from Haiti which I believe also a tropical country. Anyway, mango is very delicious and nutritious fruit which contains beta-carotene, vitamin A, Vitamin C, vitamin E, Selenium, B-complex (anti-stress) vitamins, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, selenium, Folic acid (folate), and zinc.

I have never heard this before but do you know that people who eat mango have more sun tolerance? Mango is also a good source of dietary fiber. They also contain some protein and amino acids and it is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium.

Banana

I grew up in a tropical country where most bananas grows. There are different kinds, colors and names of Banana. There are red banana, yellow, green, and orange. The one that I love most is what we called "Tonton or Latondan". Bananas are one of our best sources of potassium, an esssential mineral for maintaining normal blood pressure and heart function. It's also good for our eyes and for improving Elimination. It also build better Bones and reduce the risk of having Kidney Cancer.

Choosing Good Strawberries

If are having trouble on choosing good Strawberries, then you should read the whole thing. You will know if the strawberries is good if it is a bright shade of red and the caps on the berries should be green and fresh looking. Berries that are green or yellow are unripe and will taste sour.

Strawberries have the most vitamin C of the berry family. Strawberries have been known since the time of the Greeks and Romans and cultivation of strawberries began in 1624. Commercial growing in America began about 1800 on the east coast of the United States. Strawberries moved west with the pioneers and now there are more than seventy varieties of strawberries, many of which are grown in California and Florida. This familiar fruit is usually available fresh year round with a peak from April to July.

Culinary Fruits

Have you noticed in your recipe book that some of the menus or ingredients have fruit on it? Well for your information, there are hundreds of fruits that are considered as edible in some cuisine. Are you interested to know what are they? Well I myself get curious about it because most of my experiment and favorite dish, I put some fruits on it like pineapple, lemon, lime, papaya, etc.

So now it is time to discover what are the other fruits that we can use. There are so many fruits that are considered edible in some cuisine such as Apples, Berries, Kiwi, Dorian, Beach Plum, Cranberry,
Texas persimmon, Dragonfruit, Butternut squash, Strawberry, Avocado, Banana, Papaya, Pineapple, Pummelo, Santol, Sweet granadilla, Sweet orange, Sweet pepper, Sweetsop and many more. Click Here for more list of edible fruits for different cuisine.

Jackfruit

See how yummy Jack fruit? By just looking at the picture naglalaway na ako. And not only that, jack fruit also reminds me of my grandmother. I grow up with her and we have one tree of jack fruit in front of the house. Oh gosh when it's time to bear fruits, it's not only one or three but sometimes more than 10. Humm it makes me happy when it gets ripe. Sometimes we also cook the green or unripe jack fruit. We cook it with coconut and subakan ug buwad wow so yummy... I really miss that time. It was a great memory of my childhood.

Anyway heres some facts and benefits jack fruit:


A jackfruit is a fruit of a tropical tree that grows over 60 ft high. It provided a good supply of proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins. They contain 38% carbohydrates, 6.6% proteins and 0.4 g fats, vitamins like vitamin A, C and certain B vitamins, and minerals like calcium, zinc, and phosphorous. Their health benefits are wide-ranging from anti-cancer to antihypertensive, anti-ageing, antioxidant, anti-ulcer.

Delicacies can be prepared from every part of the fruit like boiling the seeds with salt, cook the green jackfruit with coconut, making some jelly, etc. It's root is also remedy for skin diseases and asthma. An extract of the root is taken in cases of fever and diarrhea.

Guava Fruit

Guava is a fruit that grows in the Philippines and other tropical country. It is really good with it's sweet tasting juicy flesh.Like banana and other tropical fruits, you don't have to kept them inside the refrigerator as they turns black or grayish. Guavas can be kept for a few days on a fruit bowl at room temperature. Always remember not to peel guavas because the edible rind contains a lot of vitamin C which is five times more than an orange. Guava also have iron that is good for you.

Lanzones

For some reason...can't figure out what but I started to make difference on this blog. I mean if before, as you've noticed I posted a lot things about the food I cook, other recipes and all that kind of stuff. And recently, I started to post about fruits and it's info. Pretty much interesting or boring? hope not boring at all. I don't have any intention to bore my visitors and readers. I am here to share different variety of foods, fruits, tips and maybe more in the future.

Lanzones is a sweet tropical fruit indigenous to parts of Southeast Asia like Philippines. It grows in Camiguin Island, in my grandfathers place. As a matter of fact, my beloved grandparents have more than 200 trees in Camiguin. Wish I could go home on the festival. I used to go to Camiguin every summer when I was still with my grandmother. I remember, when my husband went to the Philippines, My grandmother wanted to treat us to Camiguin. Sad to say Tony have no more time left to go there. I wish we did then. Now there will be no more grandma to come with us.

Rambutan

After I craved for dried fish, salted fish sauce and other Filipino food, now I am dying to eat the fruits I used to eat when I was in the Philippines. I miss them all so much. I am just happy to get Pomelo in asian market. Now I was craving for Rambutan especially after I saw this picture.

Here's some fact about Rambutan:

Rambutan, Nephelium lappaceum, is a fruit considered exotic to people outside of its native range. To people of Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillippines, Vietnam, Borneo, and other countries of this region, the rambutan is a relatively common fruit the same way an apple is common to many people in cooler climates. This may change for the rambutan over time as availability and distribution improve.

The word "rambut" in the fruit name 'rambutan' is Malay for 'hairy,' and this refers to the spiky rind. Indeed, without the soft spines on the rind, the rambutan would resemble the lychee (or litchee) which is in the same botanical family. The structure internally is quite similar, with a single central inedible seed and edible white flesh wrapped around it but the skin is the part that makes the rambutan so distinctive in appearance. Other members of the same botanical family, the Sapindaceae, include the longan (Dimocarpus longan), the canepa or mamoncillo (Melicoccus bijugatus), the pulasan (Nephelium mutabile), and guaraná (Paullinia cupana).

Pomelo

This is Pomelo "Buongon" in bisaya, another dialect in the Philippines. This is one of my favorite fruit. It's like grapefruit here but it is a little bit bigger. Guess what? i can eat the whole Pomelo just watching TV. My husband sometimes told me that he's wondering how I can eat that much with my little tiny body hahahah... Little tiny body but have big stomach???