Peanut Butter Fruit

Bunchosia argentea · Tropical fruit

40 pairings

The peanut butter fruit is a small, glossy orange-to-scarlet berry from tropical South America, the fruit of Bunchosia argentea, a shrub or small tree in the Malpighiaceae family. Its name comes from the dense, sticky, deep-orange pulp, whose flavour and texture are widely compared to peanut butter, fig jam or dried fruit paste rather than to any bright, juicy tropical fruit.

Picking a good onedrag

UnderripeOverripe

Orange, no red yetNot there yet. The ripe fruit is described as reddish-orange, so one with no red in it is still lean and can carry an astringent edge. Leave it for the coloured ones beside it.Nearly

Skin colourOrange all over, no red come into it yet

The squeezeFirm, only a little give, the seeds felt inside

Stem endSmall clean scar, the skin tight all round it

SmellA first sweetness, only right at the skin

Reading a just ripe one. Move the slider and the rest of this page — nutrition, pairings — re-scores with it.

Preparing