Saturday, June 20, 2009

Anyone know the name of this fruit?

I ate it in Hainan.. seriously yummy but very sweet. Looks a bit like a potato when you just look at it, but don't be fooled by its looks... it's yum, yum, yum! 
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21 comments:

  1. IncognitoJune 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM

    pssst... that's easy


    it's the potato! : )

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  2. Jonna WibeliusJune 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    no no.. promise u.. it's not! :)

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  3. AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM

    人参果

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  4. AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 6:00 PM

    It looks strange lol :)

    You should visit my blog, it talks about french food, i give recipes and all ^^

    And sorry for my english ><
    Byee (k)

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  5. AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM

    I think its called "chiku" in India. Does it have brown flesh inside with black seeds? If so, then the Englisg name is sapodilla

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  6. RameshJune 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM

    Is it the Sapodilla ? A very common fruit in India and Thailand, but less common here. Wikipedia translates it in Chinese as 人心果

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  7. JosieJune 20, 2009 at 7:43 PM

    It's a kiwi!! Or, because you're in China, a chinese peach :D
    Yum yum yum (L)

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  8. The Candid YankJune 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM

    well, it looks an awful lot like a mango. Suppose you describe what it looks like on the inside, and what sort of pit/seeds it has?

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  9. EmmyJune 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM

    When I first saw the picture I almost thought it was a rock :) So I'll have to trust you on this one.

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  10. Stina h.June 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM

    I think this is a Sapodilla, but i'm not shure.

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  11. KikitJune 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM

    I'm not sure but I think it's sapodilla. We call it chico in the Philippines.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapodilla

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  12. Brad FarlessJune 21, 2009 at 2:52 AM

    I think it's a rock and Jonna's trying to fool us.

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  13. Pete In SyracuseJune 21, 2009 at 3:17 AM

    Did it taste like a waterchest nut? Or did it have a fruity flavor - like a cross between a mango & orange?

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  14. PhoenixkiddJune 21, 2009 at 4:13 AM

    What does it look like in the inside? Is it fleshy like a plum, ribbed like an orange, or seeds and jelly like a promegranet?

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  15. AnonymousJune 21, 2009 at 5:30 AM

    I agree with a previous post. It may be 人参果(ren shen guo). Extremely sweet fruit. But I've never seen such a big 人参果.

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  16. UnknownJune 21, 2009 at 6:00 AM

    Jonna, what color is the inside of the "potato"?

    If it's orange or purple it might be a sweet potato or a yam

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  17. Jonna WibeliusJune 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM

    Yey, you guys rock! It's a sapodilla! Brown flesh inside with black seeds -correct. Before I saw it at Hainan I've never seen it before. But it's kind of good. Haven't seen any in Suzhou though. Very impressed of your ambitious guesses though... potato, kiwi, stone... (!?!) Hahahah! Well I have to recommend all of you who haven't tried it yet to do... like I said, very sweet but kind of yum! Thanks for your help!

    Btw, as for the Chi name.. I just read that the 人参果
    isn't the correct translation, but that it should be 人心果 like Ramesh said. (Wikipedia quote: In Chinese, the name is mistakenly translated by many people roughly as "ginseng fruit" (人參果), though this is also the name used for the pepino, an unrelated fruit. It should instead be "heart fruit" (人心果) because it is shaped like the heart.)

    Although... shaped like a heart? Not really...

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  18. Brad FarlessJune 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    Maybe they mean shaped like a real heart?

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  19. Jonna WibeliusJune 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    Brad -yeah you're right.. that would make sense. Funny, it didn't even occur to me it could mean a 'real heart' when I read 'heart shape'. My mind seems a bit slower than usual...

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  20. Brad FarlessJune 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM

    Pfft. Don't worry about it. Because of Valentine's and the popularization of cartoon hearts that's what most people think of first. As a kid I didn't even know hearts weren't shaped like that until I was about 13. ^_^

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  21. AnonymousJuly 10, 2009 at 1:48 AM

    it's called a mango!

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