Bite Into Starfruit

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ut the sweetness. They taste great with the pink salt we call sendha namak.<figure id="1c99"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>My dad gets my teenage daughter to try a slice of starfruit and waits for her to react to the tangy taste. Photo by the author.</figcaption></figure>My dad was delighted to have found them in the Thursday bazaar today. Such rare fruits are never available in the regular markets, but sometimes a farmer will pluck some and sell them at the biweekly farmer’s market.We had a tree — an entire tree — of this fruit in our home in Bangalore in 1998. Now we live in Jamshedpur, which is in the northern part of India while Bangalore is in the south.<h2 id="4ce7">Nobody would steal the fruit of the starfruit tree</h2>North or south, the fruit is unpopular because it isn’t

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very sweet and is too tangy for most people’s tastes. Honestly, in a country used to the deliciousness of mangoes, the tangy star fruit is likely to go begging.To include some starfruit goodness in your diet, just reduce the quantity! Three people can easily share a single star fruit, which is cut into slices. It cuts easily and needs no peeling.Many people suggest you eat one because a 100g serving has 57% of the RDA of vitamin C, and a little vitamin B to boot. However, I suggest you eat some starfruit because when you first bite into one, you’re sure to raise your eyebrows to your hairline!Join Medium with <a href="https://medium.com/@rovikesh/membership">this</a> link at $5 for you and for me, to read and write! A hundred followers and you’ll be up and running in the Medium Partner Program, and raking in the cents and the sense.</article></body>

You’ll raise your eyebrows and blink rapidly

Photo by the author of starfruit or “kamrak”.

These fruits don’t look much like stars, do they?

Cut starfruit. Photo by the author.

Well, they do look like stars — in cross-section.

Starfruit served with pink salt. Photo by the author.

They’re yum! They taste like lemons but with flesh, or like grapes without the sweetness. They taste great with the pink salt we call sendha namak.

My dad gets my teenage daughter to try a slice of starfruit and waits for her to react to the tangy taste. Photo by the author.

My dad was delighted to have found them in the Thursday bazaar today. Such rare fruits are never available in the regular markets, but sometimes a farmer will pluck some and sell them at the biweekly farmer’s market.

We had a tree — an entire tree — of this fruit in our home in Bangalore in 1998. Now we live in Jamshedpur, which is in the northern part of India while Bangalore is in the south.

Nobody would steal the fruit of the starfruit tree

North or south, the fruit is unpopular because it isn’t very sweet and is too tangy for most people’s tastes. Honestly, in a country used to the deliciousness of mangoes, the tangy star fruit is likely to go begging.

To include some starfruit goodness in your diet, just reduce the quantity! Three people can easily share a single star fruit, which is cut into slices. It cuts easily and needs no peeling.

Many people suggest you eat one because a 100g serving has 57% of the RDA of vitamin C, and a little vitamin B to boot. However, I suggest you eat some starfruit because when you first bite into one, you’re sure to raise your eyebrows to your hairline!

Join Medium with this link at $5 for you and for me, to read and write! A hundred followers and you’ll be up and running in the Medium Partner Program, and raking in the cents and the sense.