Fruit Maven » Jujube http://fruitmaven.com Your guide through the wild world of fruit. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:07:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Jujube http://fruitmaven.com/2009/10/jujube/ http://fruitmaven.com/2009/10/jujube/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:41:24 +0000 Fruit Maven http://fruitmaven.com/?p=567 If you are kind of quirky, your hippy parents gave you a name like Pegasus and you regularly drink vegetable smoothies, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE 2.5 out of 5 stars

Brown and green speckled pellet with pale green flesh

AROMA 2.5 out of 5 stars

Fresh grass, very subtle

TEXTURE 1.5 out of 5 stars

Really hard and quite dry

TASTE 2.5 out of 5 stars

The faintest apple flavor

OVERALL 2.25 out of 5 stars

I am told that this little fruit is supposed to be fantastic for your health so I was pretty excited to try it. It promises immortality and a clean colon and other very appealing perks. At first it has a sweet happy first impression in your mouth, which is great! I’m going to eat this every day. An apple a day keeps the doctor away but a jujube a day keeps death away! But then it fades to a bland dry apple flavor that just lingers and lingers in your mouth. Plus its so dry that it becomes hard to swallow all the little bits. Maybe you have to stay alive for as long as it takes you to finish the bite, which turns out to be forever.

FRUIT

Jujube

VARIETY

Unknown

PEAK

Aug-Nov

ORIGIN

China

GROWN

Creekside Tropicals
California

PURCHASED

Farmer’s Market

NOTES

The jujube is one of the world’s oldest fruits – used in Chinese medicine for the last 4000 years. Also called chinese date or red date.

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