It’s a wonderful thing to discover new foods and I had the opportunity to try a new fruit recently. Some of you will probably be familiar with the fruit and wonder where the heck I’ve been but I got to experience the Feijoa for the first time when meeting new friends in Brisbane.
My new friends had been given a bag full of this strange little green fruit, which had been bought for them on a trip “up north”. I guess you could say it looked like a cross between a kiwi fruit and a small custard apple and had a wonderful perfumey tropical smell and taste with a slightly gritty texture.
I had a look to see what the Feijoa was all about…
here are 5 quick facts about this lovely fruit
- It’s sometimes called pineapple guava
- It is native to Brazil and Columbia and also originates from New Zealand (this is probably how it found its way to Queensland)
- Feijoa is a healthy little fella – full of Vitamin c, fibre, potassium and folic acid
- It can be used in many ways – eaten with a spoon, kiwi fruit style or used in jam, chutney, pulps, cakes, sorbet…..even as a flavour for vodka
- A feijoa is a low Kcal/KJoule snack with 49 Kcals per 100g
