These Tropical Fruits Will Help You Toot

Senryu Salad

Flesh of papaya Drizzled with fresh lemon juice Constipation cure

What of guava? Pink delight beneath the skin, Seeds a laxative

For a fruit salad Squeeze the juice of an orange To whet the appetite

Please ignore my current obsession with regular bowel movements. It’s just the words came out that way!

Both papayas and guavas are high in fiber.

Did you know the papayas grown in commercial farming are hermaphrodites? The only trees that produce the fruit.

Guavas contain 4 times more Vitamin C than an orange, and the leaves are a source of black pigment used in textiles.

Being juiceless, like the lone banana presented by Lucy The Eggcademic (she/her), the tastiest fruit salad demands the symbiosis of citrus, deciduous and tropical fruit.

Thanks for being here.

My response to the prompt from Lucy on fruits that aren’t juicy.

Imad wrote a beautiful poem in response to a different prompt. I’m including it here because it’s another delicious tropical fruit — though dripping with juice when ripe!