Babaco

Vasconcellea × pentagona

fruit

A seedless five-ribbed yellow fruit with juicy, tangy flesh tasting of papaya, strawberry and pineapple, eaten with the skin or as juice.

Origin

Andes of Ecuador

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

It is eaten raw, skin included, cut into slices: it has no seeds. When fully ripe, yellow and fragrant, it is also pressed into juice.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

Sterile, it can only be propagated by cuttings: all babacos are clones.