Monday, 11 December 2017

Kiwano



The third fruit that I will be talking about in my blog is the kiwano. This is a potato sized fruit. This fruit has many other names in many other languages but it is best known in English as the horned melon. The texture of this fruit is described as a cucumber-jelly-melon. The main reason that this fruit is held in so high regard in Africa is because during their very dry months these fruits are the main source of water. Surprisingly (to me anyway) these fruit actually grow in the ground. I find this surprising because I only recently found out that pineapples grow out of the ground also. One of the most popular and most used recipes using kiwano is a banana, pineapple and kiwano sorbet. The climate that these fruits need to grow is a very dry desert one. These fruits are usually picked in large numbers and take are usually ripe within 4 months.

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