Favorite fruits🍎🍌🍊

Pineapple, nothing else.

Pineapple has so much sugar. My doctor has told me to avoid it since I'm pre-diabetic. I'm also to avoid grapes and other tropical fruits, whcih ahve too much sugar,

Any fruit is a delicious treat if you get it at peak ripeness. Fruit is only a disappointment when you get some tasteless specimen like supermarket strawberries or mealy apples. There are so many I enjoy: cherries, grapes, bananas, mandarins, etc.

I don't like watermelon. It tastes like sugar water. But I love cantaloupe.

persimmons

I detest persimmons, guava and anything that has a persimmon like flavour.

I love peaches and cherries.

I love peaches and cherries

AND

persimmons and guava

Bananas

Sorry, r8, we have no bananas.

There is nothing better than a juicy, fresh, ripe peach. Too bad the season is so short. I bought a bag of ridiculously overpriced Rainer cherries today, and they are amazing. I love grapes, when they’re crispy.

Mango!

Let's hear it for the nectarine!

R2- You sound like a Frau. You can eat a modest amount of Pineapple once a week. Pineapple contains something called bromelain which has numerous health benefits.

Donuts

It's been an absolutely rotten year for grapes, r10.

I love my bananas heavily freckled but still fairly firm but not too firm when I slice them onto a plate and eat them with a fork.

THIS is my favorite FRUIT

r16, you sound...dainty.

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Pome fruits, especially Piñata apples when you can find them. I love baking with plums because the cakes with it require little sugar. Blackberry pie is astounding. Loganberry syrup is a Western New York, super sweet so it has to be ice cold.

Who doesn't simply adore cloudberries?

Plum is underrated

Blueberries all the way. And pears.

I think I’m going to plant a blueberry bush

A fruit discussing fruit.

You'll need more than one to get anything out of it

I watched a couple of YT videos of people who unbox tropical fruits and try them for the first time on camera. I've wanted to buy a box of assorted tropical fruit from companies that import/ship them, but they are so expensive, plus they throw in some varieties that I've already tried (dragonfruit, starfruit) and some I don't want at all (durian, cacao pod) . One day....

Dragonfruit and starfruit are so meh.

R10 - I picked up a bag of Rainer cherries at The Fresh Market yesterday myself. They were heavenly!

Have y'all had Indian mangoes before? The Indian grocery store near me (Patel Bros. -- I think it's a chain) started selling them. They're very pricy because they have to get flown over to maintain their quality, but kind of worth it. Rich, custardy flavor and super smooth (practically fiberless) flesh. I got a few alphonso and kesar mangoes. So good!

I'm changing my name to Alphonso Mango.

R10- Did you buy those cherries at Whole Foods. I went to Whole Foods today and bought the same variety of cherries.

Counting the days for pluots and plumcots to return to stores.

Ya can't beat a good casaba.

Mangoes and more mangoes. Nectarines. Apricots. Strawberries.

Bing cherries are my favorite and the most reliably good.

Mangos, nectarines (but they can be mealy). A good apple (not mealy), like an Envy or Honeycrisp or even a Fuji.

Nectarines are my very favorite but it’s so hard to find good ones anymore.

I also love strawberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, and tangerines. And I love cherries, grapes, and bananas.

Razzleberry dressing.

Nectarines are just knock-off peaches.

Mr. Burbank would like to have a word with you, r38,

For those in the U.S. who don't want to pay the premium price or don't have access to Indian mangoes, keep an eye out for Keitt mangoes in late summer / early Fall. They are these green-skinned mangoes (many of which are HUGE). They were originally cultivated in Florida in the early 20th C. but are now grown in other parts of N. and S. America, too. They are closest thing you'll get to Indian mangoes' rich, sweet taste and nearly fibreless flesh.

keep an eye out for my ass. it's a real peach.

Prunes are versatile and pair with seafood.

Most fruits either have little or no flavor or taste sour to me. Strawberries smell deliciously like strawberries to me but taste like shit. Cherries, blueberries, raspberries and kiwis have no flavor unless served with sugar or cream.

The only ones I eat are watermelon (in season), Bosc pears, pineapple, and Gala and Macintosh apples

R43 - only one I can relate to is blueberries which, when fresh, are so bland to me. But I LOVE blueberries in baked goods -- especially when combined with lemon. Is anyone else a weirdo like me? (Hate the fresh fruit version of a fruit but love it when used as ingredient in prepared or baked goods?)

And, for the record, I love plenty of fresh fruit. But, yeah, blueberries... ick.

r42 - Hi, Greg! 👋

[quote](Hate the fresh fruit version of a fruit but love it when used as ingredient in prepared or baked goods?)

Figs.

Hello, R45.

Love: Cherries, apples, oranges, tangerines, clementines, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, bananas, pineapples, watermelon, lemons, limes, and I'm sure there are others.

Like: Grapes, cantalouple, honeydew, black and red currants, blackberries (but hate the seeds), tomatoes, eggplants, cucumber.

Can't stand: Mango, peaches, nectarines, cranberries, red peppers

Unfortunate sensitivities:

If I eat too much pineapple or watermelon, my tongue, gums and lips burn sometimes for hours and sometimes for days or weeks, feeling like I am chewing on a jellyfish. Absolute agony so I have to limit how much I eat of these.

Bananas and oranges: Both have always caused tingling and I thought for my entire life that these sensations were normal to eating these foods, like burning is normal from eating chili peppers. Bananas make my tongue and lips tingle but it's not painful. If my mouth touches any part of an orange peel, my lips and a large area around my mouth sting for hours. I always figured that is just from citric acid. But it doesn't happen at all if I just drink orange juice or eat peeled orange wedges.

I can't eat green bell peppers at all. I get heartburn and acid reflux for at least three or four days after eating any amount of green peppers, which sucks, because I love them.

r48 - your lips burn for WEEKS if you eat too much of certain fruits? That's really bizarre. Has a doctor ever been able to tell you why that is?

My favorite weekend dinner is apples, pears and grapes with a loaf of piping hot French bread and brie or camembert. Sitting in frot of the TV with a nice bottle of some crisp wine.

My mouth is watering now.

R49 For weeks on three occasions so far. Usually it's for a couple of days. And it is usually if I overdo it. I ate a lot of watermelon for about a week one time and then it happened.

There are a few likely reasons.

The most obvious is called "burning mouth syndrome." The name is self-explanatory. The syndrome name describes a symptom but not a cause. It happens to a fair number of people, sometimes seemingly spontaneously and sometimes triggered by foods. It may be an immune system problem or a nervous system problem.

The second is that certain fruits, including bananas, pineapple and melon, have generally high allergy and sensitivity rates among people because they carry pollen that causes common allergies.

Pineapple also has an enzyme called bromelian that effectively...digests similarly to how saliva digests. So a lot of people get a burning mouth if they eat too much pineapple, but in that case it is effectively because the pineapple they were eating digested their mouths while they were eating it. So yeah.

Finally, in my case, it's most likely because I have an immunological disorder called mast cell activation syndrome, or MCAS. It causes my cells that contain histamine, cytokines and other inflammatory mediators to be overly sensitive and cause general inflammation/anaphylaxis when triggered. Heat, exercise, NSAIDs and various foods cause me to get anaphylaxis unless I am properly medicated, and there are still some breakthrough events due to exposure to these things. Being in high heat for a long time always causes me to get hives all over my body, tachycardia, a runny nose, acid reflux and sometimes diarrhea, whether I am medicated or not. Sometimes I get extreme tremors as if I have Parkinson's. A lot of people who have MCAS get burning mouth often. I get it infrequently. But I am better off with foods than most people who have MCAS are. Many are highly allergic to most foods and some are so allergic that they have feeding tubes because any food passing down their esophagus will trigger anaphylaxis and close their airway totally.

The chronic inflammation of oral tissue also has caused me a ton of dental problems, including a couple of teeth just dying without any physical damage to the tooth, probably from the roots being compressed too many times from inflamed tissue.

It kinda sucks.

A firm crisp blueberry. I noticed lately the quality of blueberries has improved at Walmart and Sam's Club. They are fresh and not mushy, with a lovely flavor.

r51 - that's awful. Sorry you've experienced that.

I used to have the reactions r51 speaks of to melons and oranges. It never lasted longer than a couple of hours. And then it went away. I still wonder how I'm going to react anytime I eat an orange, and I don't bother much with melon, though I do like watermelon.

Overall, I find produce, especially fruit, the most disappointing of the food categories. Berries are often quite sour. It's practically impossible to get a good tomato, pear, or peach, even at Whole Foods, and they have made it clear to me that they do not give one single fuck how I like their produce.

I bought two pears at WFM about two weeks ago. One turned almost immediately to inedible mush, and the other never lost its rock-hard consistency/texture.

It makes me reach for reliable foods like carbs.

R54 I only buy frozen wild blueberries now. They are so much better.

I can honestly take or leave fresh tomato, but since I've started buying ugly heirloom tomatoes, I've become more of a fan. The standard ones are not even worth it to me, although I will eat a slice if it comes on a burger etc. Heavy, dense heirloom tomatoes are practically a different food than beefsteaks and cherry tomatoes.

I ate a whole pineapple one and had sores in my mouth. It was from too much citric acid.

R56 No, it was from bromelian. [quote] The reason your tongue becomes irritated when eating the tropical fruit is because of a pesky enzyme called bromelain. What this enzyme does is essentially digest the protein on your tongue as you eat, causing that tingling sensation you get in your mouth.

I ❤❤❤❤❤ Apples.

I like to hit the fruit salad after getting a glass of (unfortunately too often) cheap wine being served at a casual picnic, throwing in the fruit, it's nice to have on a hot day, and the fruit helps the wine be a bit more tolerable.

[quote] Cherries, blueberries, raspberries and kiwis have no flavor unless served with sugar or cream.

Cherries? They're (bing / Ranier) pretty sweet to begin with. I can't see adding sugar to cherries or needing cream.

I love frozen wild blueberries in cold white wine or bubbly. They keep it cold, they don't melt and they add a subtle berry flavor and you can finish with a superfood and pretend the drink was healthfu!

Cherries and raspberries have no flavor?!

I don't say this a as a joke because I have been there: the person who wrote this is probably addicted to sugar. Go on a sugar-free diet to break the addiction (the withdrawal is terrible) and real food will taste much more flavorful.

Blueberry flavor is slight but it gets better when you cook them, and they should need only a tiny bit of sugar and salt, maybe cinnamon, to bring the flavor to life.

[quote]Cherries and raspberries have no flavor?!

I'm not the poster at whom you're shrieking, but it is my experience as well that raspberries can have very little flavor. Not always—they are my favorite fruit—but yeah, raspberries can be pretty bland at times.

When I don't like blueberries, it's because they're so sour. It's not always the case, but they can be pretty unpleasant. Raspberries are much more dependable. I almost always have raspberries on hand.

Cherries I like in season.

Is there anything more depressing than getting a nice looking piece of fruit and it being terrible? You take it home and wash it, anticipating the fresh, juicy taste and you get a horrible dud - no flavor, or overripe or rotting inside. Ugh.

I had seen passionfruit on a lot of cooking shows and was curious to try them, so when I saw them in this large market, I got them... and they weren't cheap. Another problem is how do you tell if they're ripe or not? Oh well, gonna try anyway. So disappointed - they were not good and this has curtailed my trying other tropical fruits. I had the same experience with fresh figs that were horrible. Took a chance and got zero reward.

I only buy peaches in season from local farmers markets or roadside stands.

Thanks, Ina.

Never had a cloudberry until we went to Lapland Doris/R21 and now I am a big fan. When I was in Newfoundland it was bake apple season and being neutral on apples I paid no attention until I realized it was their term for cloudberries. (sadly close to the end of the trip.)

Favorites- raspberries, nectarines, blueberries, honey dew melon, apricots

Gross - bananas, watermelon and ripe mango

I love the flat bottom persimmons (Jiro??) but get a cottony mouth sensation and numbness from the oval ones.

Love most fruits. On my land I grow honeyberries (can't be found in stores), raspberries, alpine white wood strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, currants, peaches, plums, apricots, pears, grapes and quince. I planted pawpaws and have been trying to get them to grow and fruit, but they're in a hostile spot and not native to this area, so so far, no dice..

Most fruits have a definite season, and should only be eaten then for best flavor and texture. It's craziness to buy a peach in January, or a cherry in November and expect those to taste like anything. Tropical fruits are an exception. Apples are bred now for long storage, and growers have also worked out the exact correct temperatures for maintaining their qualities for months, so you can find good ones almost year round. Only in mid-late summer do they start to get mealy (most apples are harvested in Sept and October). Any peach picked from a tree by yourself is going to be infinitely better than one bought at a store. But if you live in a peach growing state and can go to a farm stand, you are bound to get good peaches.

In order, starting in June, these are the times for buying fruit in the northern parts of the US. Late May and early June rhubarb (technically not a fruit, but great in pies), Late June, strawberries and raspberries, early July, cherries, late July apricots and blueberries, August, late apricots, plums and early peaches, late August, watermelons and other melons, September, grapes, mid-season peaches, pears, early apples, more melons, October, late peaches, peak apple season, grapes. November, all done.

R58 same!

[quote] "Any fruit is a delicious treat if you get it at peak ripeness."

I'm with R3. Outside of Durian, and other divisive things, I pretty much like it all.

Canteloupe

Lemon, raspberry, peach, apricot, tomato

Sweet, juicy, tender navel oranges, nectarines, cherries, plums, strawberries, blueberries, and red and green grapes. I used to love tangerines, but it's hard to find any that aren't tough and dried out. Clementines come pretty close to how tangerines used to be, though.

Blueberries, nectarines, peaches and strawberries

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I bought a cream cheese slice with tart cherries. I know I’m pushing the season, but that’s what is on my mind.

I change my favorite based on what I see and read, but Pear is usually an October favorite and December least favorite. I’m in a “fuck nectarines” mood lately and I think I want Fuji apples. With cheese.

I love fresh lychee, rambutan, ice cream bananas (a variety in Hawaii), raspberries, red and also yellow flesh watermelon, lemon, white guavas, strawberry guavas, lilikoi (passion fruit), most varieties of oranges, yellow kiwi, rainier and bing cherries, honey crisp apples, red plums, pluots, and probably a few I can't think of at the moment. There was a farmer (Nozawa Farms) on the North Shore of Oahu that grew yellow watermelons for a few years. He quit growing them about 4-5 years ago. They were incredible ... so crisp and sweet ... better than any red watermelon I'd ever had. He said the season was too short and the melons were not worth the effort (damn).

Peaches

Apples

Strawberries

Green (only)Grapes

Marionberry

I bought peaches because they smelled sweet and peachy. I'm disappointed because they turned out to be tasteless.🙁

Bartlett Pears

A perfectly ripe one, fresh and cold ... ambrosia!

[quote]I’m in a “fuck nectarines” mood lately

Why have a nectarine when you can have a peach?