USING FRUITS AS SUGAR, SWEETENERS OR FLAVOURS HAS HUGE POTENTIALS

Due to health concerns, even people with sweet tooth are giving up or would love to do away with consumption of refined sugar.

Healthy alternatives are available with the use of sweet fruits but these are yet to be well-explored commercially.

Fruits also have very wide arrays of flavours that can be explored to cater to everyone's palate. For instance, do you know there exists about 400 varieties of mangoes each with their own distinct taste and therefore flavours?

I learnt that when I visited a fruithunter and then her Orchard last year😂 i.e. last week. The Orchard owner is a lady seriously into cultivation of different arrays of fruits - Guess What? We got to know each other through Instagram- so for those who tend to view or use social media in bad light - explore the positive aspects.

Now back to the main focus- there are all sorts of tastes from bitter to sour to mostly very sweet yummy delicious-tasting fruits.

There are sweet/sour fruits - I tasted this at the Orchard - ' the taste is so unique - a feeling of sweetness with sourness on the palate -  there are people who would love such.

There are honey-tasting fruits - if you like honey- know that it's not only from bees you can get the honey taste but there is at least a fruit tree that produces fruits with the inside looking and tasting like honey. 

There is also chocolate tasting fruits (not from cocoa tree).

There are hundreds upon hundreds  of apple varieties  with different tastes or flavours. There is mangosteen(it's  different from mango and there also different varieties of mangosteen).  

There is Jack fruit. You see that Jack fruit ehhn! the fruit can become as big as a 10litre to 20 litre bucket. 

I hear it's so sweet - I have not yet cut and tasted the one I was given at the Orchard- waiting for it to ripen.

I also saw different varieties of pawpaw - there's this pawpaw variety that had ripen and was looking so yellowish - I thought it was over-ripe and would be too soft and marshy but I was still able to cut through with knife without it disintegrating - it was extra sweet - sweetest pawpaw I ever tasted- I think.

Another beautiful point about fruit is such that when they become so very ripe or over-ripe they can still be useful - so unfortunate that people usually just allow them waste - apart from blending over-ripe fruits into Smoothies and using to sweeten fermented stuffs like your home-made yoghurt, pap and some cereals, do you know you can also pour the blended over-ripe fruits in an oven-tray and oven-dry or bake them?  - they form fruit leather- a sort of snack or confectionery. It can be chewed or put in drinks to sweeten the drink. You can combine them with bitter drugs or herbs to make it easier to take the medicine
There's a whole lot more on fruits but let me pause here. I have pictures of some of the fruits with the write-up for you to view.

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