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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: noisyturtle on Tue, 12 March 2024, 20:59:35
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What is your favorite fruit, and why?
I'm a big guava fan. Like a perfect cross between strawberry and watermelon, and super good for you. One of the highest amounts of vitamin A & C, tons of antioxidants, and bar none the highest concentration of lycopene in any raw food.
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Watermelon = Watermelon
Because, Watermelon
Contains the most amount of Watermelon.
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Any perfectly ripe fruit is better than any fruit before or after its peak.
My go-to is grapefruit for breakfast but in-season blackberries and raspberries are exquisite, as is that mid-summer peach that is so just right.
Melons, especially home-grown cantaloupe and watermelon are wonderful, but only at their "just right" moment.
That exotic mango is very hard for me to find, here so far from its natural habitat, in a proper state of ripeness but without that awful stringy stuff ....
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yellow dragon fruits are amazing and have been fairly affordable these days ($3-4/lb around my parts). otherwise just some really good apples, oranges, or grapes. delicious fruit doesn't have to be super expensive or exotic in my eyes.
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yellow dragon fruits are amazing
I have heard this before, got to try the yellow ones. The regular pink ones literally taste of nothing, no flavor at all whatsoever.
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Watermelon = Watermelon
Because, Watermelon
Contains the most amount of Watermelon.
Watermelon is probably my favourite. Oranges are also a top contender as well.
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Absolutely love pineapple, and pineapple juice is my favourite juice as well. But pineapple is such a hassle to prepare, and even if you buy fresh pineapple, it's so acidic that it really makes my teeth hurt after just a few small bits.
Therefore my go-to is banana. Only problem with that is that you need to buy it a week in advance and it's only good for one, possibly two days. And you have to buy them in bunches >.> .
If fruit weren't so painful on the teeth or so much hassle, I'd probably eat a lot more of it.
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fresh pineapple, it's so acidic that it really makes my teeth hurt after just a few small bits.
I never used to have that problem, but last year I bought a pineapple that was perfectly ripe and delicious, and it felt like it had turned my mouth inside-out.
For the next few days I took a couple of tentative bites, but simply couldn't do it. Haven't touched pineapple since.
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fresh pineapple, it's so acidic that it really makes my teeth hurt after just a few small bits.
I never used to have that problem, but last year I bought a pineapple that was perfectly ripe and delicious, and it felt like it had turned my mouth inside-out.
For the next few days I took a couple of tentative bites, but simply couldn't do it. Haven't touched pineapple since.
There's two components to this, the acidity, and bromelain.
My teeth are very sensitive because I gnash my teeth during my sleep. I use a bit nowadays to prevent it from getting worse, but it's left my teeth vulnerable to acidic things. Too much sourness, and my teeth hurt for days. Pineapple is acidic, but then again most fruit is, so this is not unique to pineapple.
What IS somewhat unique to pineapple as a fruit is an enzyme called bromelain, which breaks down tissue. This is why, if you eat a lot of pineapple, it feels like your tongue and/or the roof of your mouth has been eaten away - because it has. I guess this is what you're referring to?
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Nectarine
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an enzyme called bromelain, which breaks down tissue.
I guess this is what you're referring to?
Pretty sure that is exactly what I am referring to. Maybe my inside mouth tissue is getting weak?
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yellow dragon fruits are amazing
I have heard this before, got to try the yellow ones. The regular pink ones literally taste of nothing, no flavor at all whatsoever.
the regular ones and even the red fleshed ones are honestly kinda ass/mid. you'll be really pleasantly surprised by the yellow ones, they're consistently sweet and easily worth your money. we get lots of fruit variety in the summer, fall in california but the winter doesn't offer much variety or quality, so it's nice to have something sweet and actually good to eat during the wintertime. albeit slightly expensive I think spending a few bucks extra on fruit is probably better than me going out to buy some ice cream or pastries (still do that regularly though :-\)
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Do berries count as "fruit"?
My favourites are European blueberries — Vaccinium myrtillus. (What heathens and infidels call "bilberries")
Nobody has yet found a way to cultivate them successfully, but they do grow wild and are more or less abundant where I live for at least a month in summer.
I find them best raw. I like to eat them in milk without any sugar. Also good frozen and thawed, but like every fruit then they are more mushy and don't taste fresh.
They are smaller, and have more colourful, tastier and nutritious flesh than the cultivated American blueberry.
The European variety was of course called "Blueberry" first. The American variety was named "Blueberry" because it resembles its European cousin.
I think it should be illegal to market American blueberries as "Blueberries" in Europe, which is something I do see happen too often because of the name confusion caused by American influence. It should also be illegal to add American blueberry flavour to blueberry products — because that tastes nothing like the real thing.
BTW. A close relative to the European variety does actually grow wild in parts of North America, but not many people know about it. I assume that because it can't be cultivated, it is very rarely seen for sale, especially outside the far north.
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Do berries count as "fruit"?
My favourites are European blueberries — Vaccinium myrtillus. (What heathens and infidels call "bilberries")
Nobody has yet found a way to cultivate them successfully, but they do grow wild and are more or less abundant where I live for at least a month in summer.
I find them best raw. I like to eat them in milk without any sugar. Also good frozen and thawed, but like every fruit then they are more mushy and don't taste fresh.
They are smaller, and have more colourful, tastier and nutritious flesh than the cultivated American blueberry.
The European variety was of course called "Blueberry" first. The American variety was named "Blueberry" because it resembles its European cousin.
I think it should be illegal to market American blueberries as "Blueberries" in Europe, which is something I do see happen too often because of the name confusion caused by American influence. It should also be illegal to add American blueberry flavour to blueberry products — because that tastes nothing like the real thing.
BTW. A close relative to the European variety does actually grow wild in parts of North America, but not many people know about it. I assume that because it can't be cultivated, it is very rarely seen for sale, especially outside the far north.
Interesting, I didn't know any of this. Maybe I've never had an actual blueberry before.
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Rambutan
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Definitely watermelon.
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