Calamansi or calamondin – (citrofortunella) is our lemon counterpart in the Philippines. It is a fruit but is more widely use as a condiment. It is a good accompaniment for pancit or rice noodles, rice porridge or arroz caldo and also can be juiced for a refreshing drink. It is sometimes used in “sinigang” or…
Camachile – (Pithecellobium dulce) – is a fruit that we eat in the Philippines. It’s plentiful during the summer season. The camachile taste sweet but dry. It has black seeds and we used to play with it. The fruit is unusual because of its coiling. It looks like a bean and it actually belongs to…
Chico/Sapodilla Chico – (Manilkara Zapota-bot. name) is a very popular fruit in the Philippines. Although it is not native to the Islands, the fruit has been widely cultivated. It is in season during the months of January till February. In Hawaii they can be seen in the farmers market up to the month of May….
Kamansi also known as breadnut (bot. name- Artocarpus camansi – blanco) is a relative of breadfruit and jack fruit. The breadfruit has more pulp and small seeds while the kamansi has bigger seeds and less pulp and just like the jack fruit, the seeds are edible and can be boiled or roasted and a…
We call the jackfruit “langka” in the Philippines. I consider it as the biggest fruit ever. When I was young, we nicknamed it “hog” because sometimes it grows as big as a pig. I remember my grandma’s jackfruit tree in the farm and the fruit almost touches the ground. I also remember eating the fruits…
Atemoya is a hybrid of two types of annona fruits which are sugar apple and the cherimoya. The sugar apple is what we refer to in the Philippines as “atis” the word I believe came from the old Mexican word “Ate” which refers to sugar apple. The crossing of these two types of Annona fruits…