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GGamboa87
08-29-2012, 03:53 AM
Just wondering what your favorite fruits are and how they rank.

mine are:

avocado, I use it in everything
lemons, love a good lemonade
cherries, who doesn't like them
strawberries
plums
dragon fruit, red inside
bananas

PR-Giants
08-29-2012, 11:49 AM
To eat raw Mango

To eat cooked Ackee

For juice Parcha

For dessert Pumpkin

For fragrance Guava

To grow ARH

To sell ARH

robguz24
08-29-2012, 12:40 PM
oops, forgot to add mango!

Cherimoya
Rollinia
banana
pineapple (white and yellow)
avocado

GreenFin
08-29-2012, 02:00 PM
Here's how I'd approximately rank my current favorite fruits for eating fresh (based on my favorite varieties of each fruit):

1) mangoes
2) bananas (even the lowly Cavendish grocery store bananas)
3) cantaloupe
4) watermelon
5) peaches
6) oranges
7) pineapple
8) strawberries
9) cherries
10) dragon fruit
11) kiwi
12) grapes
13) plums
14) pears
15) apples (would be way higher if counting apple sauce/cider/butter/etc)
16) raspberries

GreenFin
08-29-2012, 02:14 PM
Here's a link to a good thread I found on GardenWeb that a lot of you may find interesting: What's Your Top 5 Tropical Fruits? (http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropical/msg1003530014381.html)

After reading through that thread yesterday, I went to the Asian market in town to try and find some of the recurring favorites that I had never tried. Here's what I found and bought--

Fresh: Rambutan, Lychee (and some Niņo bananas)
Canned: Mangosteen, Jackfruit, Longan, and banana blossoms

I also wanted starfruit, durian, cherimoya, jabaticaba, passion fruit, and sugar apple, but they didn't have any.

I tried the lychee and the rambutan. Both reminded me of big grapes. The lychee was okay; the rambutan was sweeter and tasted better to me. No idea what varieties they were, how long ago they were picked, or how many thousands of miles they had traveled. I'm going to wait until dinner to try the canned fruits. I'm sure they're vastly inferior to fresh versions, but hopefully still palatable.

sunfish
08-29-2012, 02:36 PM
Prunes

RandyGHO
08-29-2012, 02:50 PM
Apples for sure is number one. Like bananas, store bought good apples are hard to find. I grow my own.
Peaches(Same as apples) I grow my own
Satsumas, mandarins and tangerines. I grow my own and storebought
watermelon I grow my own
Meyer's lemons I grow my own
pineapple I grow my own sometimes
Strawberries Tried and failed to grow my own twice.
bananas trying to grow my own

RAINFOREZT
08-29-2012, 04:38 PM
Carie Mango

sunfish
08-29-2012, 04:48 PM
Cherimoya

planetrj
08-30-2012, 04:21 AM
White Sapote
Moro Blood Orange
Young Yellow Coconut
Fraises Des Bois Strawberries
Mini Sugar Pineapple
Sunrise Papaya (Hawaiian)
Lychee
Jujube
Cacao fruit
Cattley Guava (Lucidum)
Mysore Banana
Yellow Iholena Banana
Cherimoya
Black Jack Fig
Feijoa
(....I could go on) ;)

Abnshrek
08-30-2012, 07:24 AM
Figs
Nectarines
Mango
a fat juicy Pear
Grapefruit
Grits..& Homany
Oranges
Cherries
Pineapple
Kiwi
Grapes
Dragonfruit
Peaches
Watermelon
Store bought Banana's
Apples

Yug
08-30-2012, 07:27 AM
mango

shilisha
09-12-2012, 02:59 AM
Watermelon
Pineapple
Strawberry
Peach
Apple

Jeff
09-12-2012, 05:35 PM
Rambutan
Mangosteen
Banana/Plantain
Mango
Soursop (Guanabana)

venturabananas
09-13-2012, 12:26 PM
cherimoya
mysore banana
mango
cherry
avocado
apricot
pitanga

Simply Bananas
09-14-2012, 05:18 AM
Mamone Chino(eating the fruit and the seed at the same time=awesome)
Mango
Fresh Banana

2woodensticks
09-14-2012, 07:46 PM
mamon chino{rambutan}figs,dates,pineapple,mango,zapote,..no special order

amantedelenguaje
09-21-2012, 08:40 PM
figs (YUM!!!)
watermelon
mango
tuna (a.k.a prickly pear)
pineapple
tangerines/mandarins
cantaloupe
banana
pawpaw (asimina triloba, not papaya)
white flesh peach
avocado
tomato (sandwich w/mayo)

Julian
09-28-2012, 12:32 AM
Mango and Lychee.:08:

momoese
09-28-2012, 01:20 AM
Mango, hands down no competition.

caliboy1994
09-29-2012, 03:53 AM
Mangosteen and certain varieties of mango. Notably the "potato mango" that I had in Costa Rica.

david.
10-05-2012, 05:35 PM
Sugar apple
Starfruit
Mango
Avocado
Cherimoya
Banana