I can name seven; how about you? Here is a list of seven edible pink colored fruits. The color refers to either the skin or flesh.
Lychee
Scientific Name: Litchi chinensis
Common Names: Litchi, Leechee, Lichee, or Lichi
Description: The fruit is oval, heart-shaped or nearly round. Its outer skin is roughly textured rind or peel, pinkish in color. The thin, tough inedible skin is green when immature. The edible portion or aril is white, translucent, firm and juicy.
Taste: The flavor is sweet, distinctive, with slightly acidic fragrance and flavor, comparable to grapes.
Rose Apple
Scientific Name: Syzygium jambos
Common Names: Rose apple, Plum rose, Malabar plum, Wax apple, Pomarrosa, or Malay apple
Description: Round, oval, or slightly pear-shaped fruits. Unripe rose apples have a bright green color. If ripe, the skin is rose-pink smooth and waxy.Inside is a dry to juicy layer of yellowish flesh.
Taste: The fruit is crispyand tastes like an apple.
Other colors: Green, red, white, and purple
Dragon Fruit
Scientific Name: Hylocereus undatus
Common Names: Pitaya, strawberry pear and pitahaya
Description: Oval to oblong with pink leathery slightly leafy skin. Its juicy pulp is white or sometimes pinkish red studded with tiny, edible seeds.
Taste: Extra sweet taste or sometimes slightly sourish; taste somewhere between a kiwi, a pear, and a watermelon.
Other colors: Costa Rica pitaya (Hylocereus costaricensis) has red skin with red flesh; yellow pitaya (Hylocereus megalanthus) has yellow skin with white flesh
Pomegranate
Scientific Name: Punica granatum
Common Names: Pomegranate, Granada (Spanish), Grenade (French)
Description: The pomegranate fruit is rounded hexagonal and crowned at the base by the prominent calyx. The tough, leathery skin or rind is typically yellow overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red with almost 600 seeds inside.Each seed is enclosed with edible sweet, juicy, pink pulp.
Taste: Very juicy with a tart and sour to sweet taste
Other colors: Deep red and purple
Lilly Pilly Berry
Scientific Name: Syzygium luehmannii
Common Names: Ribeery, Small-leaved Lilly Pilly, cherry satin ash, clove lilli pilli or cherry alder
Description: A small, roughly globular, pear-shaped fruit with a soft violet pink kissed skin when ripe. The fruit is cottony firm, similar more to a pear than a berry
Taste: Tart, unique aromatic flavour with undertones of cinnamon, lime and clove.
Other colors: cranberry red and purple-pink
Guava
Scientific Name: Psidium guajava
Description: The small fruit is oval in shape and green to yellow in color; the juicy flesh can be cream, pink, yellow, or red in color and contains numerous yellowish seeds.
Taste: all varieties come with the characteristic musky flavor and odor; varieties' flavor range from sweet to tart.
Pink Grapefruit
Scientific Names: Citrus paradisi
Common Names: Used to be called “The Forbidden Fruit”
Description: The fruit is yellow-orange skinned and generally an oblate spheroid in shape; the flesh is segmented and can be white or pink.
Taste: Acidic; sour to semi-sweet
Other colors: White and red
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I want to try pomegranate! I like lychee if it's in Mogu Mogu hehe, I also like dragonfruit.
ReplyDeleteI figure out our local fruit here in your picture. That fruit is "tambis" as we call it, but in other places it is called Malay Apple, Rose Apple, etc. I like it for it is tasty and juicy.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like an entry I can use for my class. Teaching colors and fruits at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI love this post! It definitely had me at pink. The rose apple looks so familiar, it almost makes me feel nostalgic of my childhood!
ReplyDeleteLychee is my favorite from this list! i've never heard of the others before! :)
ReplyDeleteThese are very lovely. I've tasted almost all of them except for the Lilly Pilly Berry.
ReplyDeleteI love that photo of pink guava. I recall the pink guava juice my wife and I had in a hotel beside Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
ReplyDeleteI was never a fan of guava, mostly because of the smell. I have yet to try the grapefruit ( I am not sure if it's sold here in the Philippines ) and pomegranate.
ReplyDeleteI've eaten most of the pink exotic fruits on this list except for the Lilly Pilly Berry and Rose Apple. Are they available here in the Philippines?
ReplyDeleteI like grapefruit much and eat it with gusto. The guava too makes me feel sweeter than ever. But some are very expensive that's why I prefer the common ones only.
ReplyDeleteLove the lychee, dragon fruit and the grapefruit. I haven't tried the lilly pilly berry and the pomegranate. Not sure if they are found here in our country.
ReplyDeleteHaha thanks for this, I just learned "tambis" in english is Rose Apple! haha Tasted most of em, except for Pomegranate hehe :D
ReplyDeleteAlthough the photos looks pink, some of these fruits doesn't come in pink that often. I thought lychee is more red than pink, same for grapefruit. But I guess it's still shades of pink~
ReplyDeleteVery pretty the second picture is Macopa and the last one is Suha right? Oh how I miss those fruits!
ReplyDeleteI love digging into pomegranate. I miss guava!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Grapefruit is used to be called “The Forbidden Fruit”. Hmmm I wonder why? :)
ReplyDeletelovely photos,they don't only taste great bu they look fabulous in the table :)
ReplyDeleteI have tried most in the list except probably pomegranate. Though I am familiar with the taste because the flavor of my energy gel is pomegranate.
ReplyDeleteI would like to taste rose apples. They look like a cross between tomatoes and cherries. So cute. :)
ReplyDeleteI missed eating the Rose Apple Papaleng. Is it tambis, right?
ReplyDeleteI have honestly seem most of these fruits from my travels and my stay in the provinces but never had the courage to try them because they all look sour! But thanks for describing the taste; it kind of convinced me to try them out when I see them again.
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