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Originally Posted by harveyc
I really believe that feijoa can compete as a fresh fruit with just about anything.
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So do I -- when it is grown to its potential. As I mentioned before, when boxes of 3" fruits are placed in a produce market, they sell very fast.
Harvey, I also agree with you that they can sell on taste alone. Further, it is a very versatile fruit. It is awesome fresh, in salad, roasted, etc.
I brought up the health benefits more of an aside -- another irony of the lack of acceptance by supermarket chains. There are a number of nutrition studies out there on the fruit. The two I've read is a few decades-old one from the USDA and a recent study by a branch of the UN that encompasses many lesser-utilized fruits world-wide. In terms of content, solubility, uptake by the human system, and fiber the fruit is a super-food. However, the local branch of the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture long-ago grew tired of trying to get the packing houses to try it.
P.S. It is no longer Feijoa, but Acca.