June plum (ambarella)

Spondias dulcis

fruit

A crunchy, tangy green fruit tasting of apple and pineapple, eaten green with salt and chili or as juice, in the Caribbean as in Asia.

Origin

Melanesia and Polynesia, grown throughout the tropics

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

It is peeled or not, then the flesh is cut away from the spiky, fibrous stone, which is not eaten; green, in slices with salt and chilli, or ripe, in juice and jam.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

Its pit bristles with spiny fibers: it is not bitten into.