Sensorially Interesting Fruit Flavours

In the world of fruits many other sensorially interesting fruits exist. Most of them are known only locally, and they are unknown to the consumers in the large markets. Especially many tropical fruits have never been exploited for their commercial value and they run the risk to disappear from the biosphere. Some have found an interest in home made products  

Blueberry, Billberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) and Gooseberry (Ribes grossularia) with their fresh, sour, green, astringent flavour are now produced in larger quantities. 

Naranjilla, Lulo (Solanum quitoense) with its fantastic sour taste with a touch of apricot, an exotic note of ethyl benzoate. Its juice has a nice green colour when freshly pressed. Unfortunately it has a very delicate skin when ripe and thus it caimot be transported over long distances. Moreover it does not properly ripen after harvesting. 

Jabuticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is a cherry-like fruit from Brazil with a gelatinous flesh and a very sweet, sour taste and a flavour in the direction of concord grape, black currant, raspberry and vanilla. 

Sapotilla, Chico (Achras sapota) is the fruit of the chicle tree, the source of the natural chewing gum base. The fruit has a very sweet taste with a pear-like, soft structure. The flavour is reminiscent of a mixture of pear with hazelnut. 

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