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Quick little fruit taste, had a Cosmic Crisp apple (malus domestica 'cosmic crisp') a little while ago! The skin of it is so waxy that you can rub/scrape off some of it. Taste wise, well.. It sure is an apple! Very sweet, also quite sour, but not at all acidic like a granny smith (malus domestica 'granny smith') can be. Other OP HATES granny smith apples, but didn't mind the sourness of the Cosmic Crisp. All in all not the most exciting fruit review, but I don't mind trying new apple varieties!

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Starting off with the rambutan (nephelium lappaceum), one of them was overripe and got very vinegary in both smell and taste and brown in colour, shown in the left picture below this paragraph, but luckily the rest were fine. These are always fun to cut open, revealing the smooth fruit inside. One of us thought they resembled chestnuts, the other was more reminded of peeling a babybell cheese. They're very mild and lychee (litchi chinensis) esque, mixed with (white) grape and notes of honey. The texture is both soft and firm. Inside is a seed, of which the outer layer sticks to the fruit. The seed itself has a mellow almond flavour, we didn't eat them, but they are edible when roasted.

The qiuyue pear (pyrus pyrifolia 'qiuyue') was pretty unique as well! They're juicy, with a grainy texture. That probably sounds unpleasant, but it's not at all! Flavour-wise they're mildly sweet, kind of like a pear ice lolly and they have this gardencress-like flavour to them. Once again, sounds a bit weird, but it really was nice! Just a little perfumed and herbal. Its skin is really thick and rough, we ended up peeling the pear because we didn't really like the texture it added.

Qiuyue pears are apparently also eaten cooked and I'm curious to see how that would affect both texture and flavour. All in all a really fun fruit taste test! I had already tried rambutan before, but the qiuyue pear is completely new to me! (Other mod ->) It was my first time trying rambutan and I think it's one of my new favourite fruits :) Absolutely adored it, but I'm a big lychee head so that was to be expected.

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I don't remember how I used to format my posts on here, anyway..

Pictures of a tiny pear that I recently ate which were still on my phone and I forgot to post. I couldn't figure out the variety, maybe someone else knows?

All I remember is that they were really smooth and firm. They tasted quite sweet and extremely like.. Just a pear, but 100% pear and nothing else.

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🍐MASSIVE PEAR! MASSIVE PEAR! MASSIVE PEAR!🍐 It's a Lucas pear (pyrus communis 'beurré alexander lucas)! It's so big! I will eat it later!

Here it is next to a doyenné du comice (pyrus communis 'doyenné du comice'). The size difference is ridiculous. Anyway, look forward to a pear review (heh) soon.

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Nashi pear? Nashi pear! It took about another week and a half to ripen enough for it to be edible. I've tried this one before but it's been a long time and I kind of forgot what it was like?

The nashi pear (pyrus pyrifolia) tastes somewhere in between an apple and a pear. This particular one was very mild and a little bit grainy. I thought it was okay, partner didn't really like it, but I also feel like there's some luck involved with nashi pears because I see plenty of people go mad for them.

All in all maybe not the most exciting fruit, but fun to try nonetheless. Let me know whether you've had a nashi pear and what you thought about it! I'm still waiting for that quince (cydonia oblonga) to ripen and I'll probably make a jam or marmelade out of it, after trying it raw.

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Quick apple intermission between the pumpkins because I've tried a new variety, the Wellant (malus domestica 'Fresco')! This is a hybrid originating in Wageningen that came about by crossing an unknown Dutch apple (or at least, I can't find which specific one) with an Elise apple (malus domestica 'Elise').

The skin on these boys is ROUGH, let me tell you, it's almost like a pear! And that's not where the similarities end, because they taste extremely pear-like too! Think doyenné du comice (pyrus communis 'doyenné du comice') juicy levels, but a crisp rather than a soft, melt-like texture and no drippiness when biting into it. The flavour is somewhere in between sweet and sour. If you have an apple allergy, this might also be one to try as it is allergy friendly, a characteristic it got from the Elise!

The granny smith (malus domestica 'granny smith) has been my favourite apple for a long time, but I'm slowly shifting towards somewhat sweeter apples recently. This one especially has a great balance of sweet and sour, besides that I really love pears but more often than not they're such hassle to eat because of how wet they are. If you get a chance, make sure to try these. I know a lot of people here aren't in an area where they're readily available, but besides the Netherlands they're also sold in surrounding countries under the name Fresco.

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Happy one year fruit anniversary!

In the past year I've polled some 500 fruits, odd ones, well known ones, rare and even brand new ones. I discovered so many species, as well as my disdain for the musa (bananas) genus (it's just too confusing) and my love for the annona (custard apples) genus.

Concerning the latter, I had never even tried one, but that changes today, as I will be trying a cherimoya (annona cherimola) which is one of the more well-known annona fruits. But before I share that experience, there's another fruit I haven't tried that I've gotten my hands on, the quince (cydonia oblonga)!

Just look at this guy, it's as if it ate a lemon. Sadly it still needs some time to ripen so I'll let you know what it's like soon. It's gotten a lot firmer, but it needs to be a little more yellow before I can try it.

On to the cherimoya, this only needed another day or so to ripen and today it was soft enough to eat! Its skin changed while ripening as well, with what seemed like pores appearing all over the fruit. Slicing this thing open was almost like cutting an avocado in half, albeit without the big pit in the middle.

The fruit has a very neutral smell, with a slightly sweet undertone and the seeds, of which there are many (don't eat those!) are clearly visible. After taking a bite, the first thing that came to my mind was persimmon (diospyros kaki) but the more I ate, the sweeter it got and I noticed some astringency (not to the point of being unpleasant) in the back of my throat. My partner thought it was reminiscent of pear, with notes of vanilla. They also said, and I quote, 'This is what a banana wishes it was'.

We both really enjoyed it and we'll be on the lookout for more cherimoya's. I can't believe I hadn't tried this before! The only problem now is that I want to try all the other species, but honestly I think that was the case before I'd had it.