Palillo

Campomanesia lineatifolia

fruit

A small yellow fruit with an intense scent, very sour, as juice, sorbet or jam in the Ucayali region.

Origin

Peruvian and Colombian Amazon

Season (United States)

January to April

Preparation

Too sour to bite into, it is pressed into a sweetened juice or cooked into jam or sorbet; the seeds are removed.

Molecules

In small amounts, not counted Pectins · Insoluble fibers

Did you know?

English speakers call it perfume guava.