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- Mangga (Mango) ➢ National fruit of the Philippines. A juicy stone fruit which tastes sharply sour when raw, but delectably sweet when ripe. Significantly high in Vitamin C and Folate. ➢
- Aratiles (Muntingia) ➢ These tiny berries are sweet to the taste and has an inedible skin. Popular to children, Aratiles normally grows in residential backyards.
- Durian. ➢ Known as king of all tropical fruits, spiked fruit Durian is sweet, savory and creamy. It emits an unusually strong offensive odor. Purported to be an aphrodisiac, it has become a staple in candies, milkshakes and ice creams.
- Kamias (Bilimbi) ➢ Sour and eaten raw with rock salt. Good as a sweet pickle relish. Can be cured and made as ingredient for Sinigang or Paksiw. ➢ Region: Residential Backyard.
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- Pineapple
- Sapodilla
- Cotton Fruit
- Guava
- Watermelon
If you’re a tropical fruit lover, then you’ll find all these fruits to be delicious. But there’s one fruit in the Philippines that rules them all – the mango. Known for its nectary sweet flavor, this golden oval-shaped fruit is something we Filipinos are abundantly proud of. Personally, it’s my favorite fruit. There are several varieties of mangoes...
Like mangoes, the custard apple or sugar apple is one of my favorite Filipino fruits. Known locally as atis, this exotic fruit with knobby green skin and white fruit flesh will remind you of a creamy custard when fully ripe. This funky-looking green fruit may seem intimidating at first with its dozens of fleshy white segments but it’s actually quit...
I only recently learned the English name of this fruit because I’ve always known it by its Filipino name – aratilis. Known in English as muntingia or Jamaican cherries, they’re native to the neotropics from Mexico to Bolivia. They’re small – about the size of cherry eggplants – and start off green before turning bright red when fully ripe. Unlike m...
Soursop is an exotic fruit native to the Americas and the Carribean. It’s also common in parts of South East Asia like the Philippines where it’s known as guyabano. This prickly, elongated green fruit has a slightly acidic and citrusy taste when ripe, and a thick creamy texture similar to banana. Guyabano can be eaten ripe in the Philippines but it...
The English name for this next Filipino fruit doesn’t really make sense at first until you slice it. Known locally as balimbing, this distinctively-shaped exotic fruit with five ridges resembles small yellow-orange stars when sliced across. Balimbing is rich in vitamin C and antioxidants and is often dubbed as a superfruit. Each star fruit contains...
The pineapple is one of the most well-known and beloved tropical fruits in the world. Known locally as pinya, it’s one of the most common fruits in the Philippines. In 2016, the Philippines, Costa Rica, and Brazil accounted for about one-thirdof the world’s total pineapple production. Pineapples are rich in vitamin C and manganese. It’s often eaten...
Sapodilla or chico is a brown oval-shaped fruit cultivated in parts of Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Like balimbing, it’s regarded as a high-energy fruit teeming with antioxidants and minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus. It’s also said to be rich in vitamin C and vitamin B complex. Chico looks more lik...
Cotton fruit or santol is a tropical fruit native to Malesia. Round in shape and about the size of an apple, it contains five or six seeds covered in soft white flesh that can range in flavor from sour to sweet, depending on the maturity of the fruit. Santol gets its English name from the soft and juicy but cotton-like consistency of its flesh that...
The guava is a round green fruit with white flesh and many small seeds. Known locally as bayabas, it can range in flavor from sour to sweet and is said to be rich in vitamin C and vitamin A. We had a bayabas tree in our backyard growing up but I never really took to it. It can be eaten raw but I much prefer it when it’s processed into candies or ja...
Like many parts of the world, watermelon is considered the ultimate summer fruit in the Philippines. Known locally as pakwan, one wedge of this incredibly juicy fruit is all you need to quench your thirst in a hot tropical country like the Philippines. Unlike American watermelons that are oval-shaped, watermelons in the Philippines are almost perfe...
- Sugar Apple. Sugar apple has multiple names that you have probably heard of, like sweet sop or custard apple. It is a native fruit in the Americas and West Indies and was introduced in the Philippines by the Spanish.
- Calamansi. Here I will introduce one of the most popular fruits from the Philippines: calamansi. Besides that name, some locals will call it by other terms, such as Philippine lime, calamondin, or Philippine lemon.
- Coconut. Coconut, or “the tree of life”, is one of the major crops and exports in the Philippines. This fruit belongs to Arecaceae, the palm tree family, the only existing type of Cocos.
- Guyabano (Soursop) The fruit has Arona muricata as its scientific name. Guyabano or soursop is an evergreen tree from the Americas and the Caribbean. It’s also prevalent throughout the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia.
- Fruits Available Year-Round. Before diving right into the list of seasonal fruit in the Philippines, here are the fruits available year-round. Banana (Saging)
- January. Dragon Fruit / Pitaya. Hylocereus undatus. Sapodilla (Chico) Manilkara zapota. Star Apple (Kaimito) Chrysophyllum cainito. Strawberry. Fragaria × ananassa. Sugar Apple (Atis)
- February. Cashew (Kasoy) Anacardium occidentale. Sapodilla (Chico) Manilkara zapota. Star Apple (Kaimito) Chrysophyllum cainito. Strawberry. Fragaria × ananassa. Sugar Apple (Atis)
- March. Cashew (Kasoy) Anacardium occidentale. Grapes (Ubas) Vitis vinifera. Jackfruit (Langka) Artocarpus heterophyllus. Java Apple (Makopa) Syzygium samarangense.
- Coconuts (Niyog) The coconut is more than just a symbol of beaches and summer. Every island in the Philippines has coconuts and it is one of the tropical trees that bears fruits year round.
- Bananas (Saging) Like coconuts, bananas grow all year round. In fact, the Philippines is one of the world’s top exporters of bananas, along with other tropical fruits including coconut and pineapple.
- Mangoes (Mangga) Mango is the country’s national fruit. They usually bear fruit during dry season which is from November to May. The island of Guimaras in Western Visayas is the mango capital of the Philippines and is known to produce one of the sweetest mangoes in the world.
- Pineapple (Pinya) Pineapples may not grow everywhere in the Philippines, but the country remains to be one of the top exporters of this fruit. They’re in season from May to July.
Learn how to say fruits in Tagalog and discover the names and meanings of various Philippine fruits. Find out the scientific names, English translations, and recipes of prutas like saging, mangga, guyabano, niyog, abukado, and more.
Sep 25, 2021 · From sweet and juicy mangoes to creamy durian, here are some of the most popular fruits in the Philippines.
