Fuyu persimmon
Diospyros kaki · Fruit
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The Fuyu is the squat, tomato-shaped, non-astringent persimmon — the everyday eating kind, sweet and crunchable straight off the tree like an apple. Flatter and rounder than the acorn-shaped Hachiya, it has glossy deep-orange skin, a low flat woody calyx, and pale-orange flesh that is mild, honeyed and free of the puckering tannin, so it can be eaten firm-crisp or left to soften. Sold in Britain and Israel under the trade name Sharon fruit, it is the persimmon most shoppers outside Asia now meet.
Picking a good onedrag
Rock-firm, shoulders greenSlumped, winey, weeping
YieldingEveryday bestEat out of hand, or dice for salads, cheese boards and salsas.
CalyxCalyx dry and pale, still tight
Weight and giveFair weight, still smooth
SkinEven deep orange, waxy and glossy
Smell at the calyxFaint honey, clean and sweet
These cues are Persimmon's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
84%
Edible part
168 g · calyx and skin off
200 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 4× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Vented, not sealed
Airflow