Banana. Of course, bananas had to be on the list! Australians eat more than five million of these golden yellow fruits every day – and they are the highest selling supermarket food.
Australia grows a wide range of deciduous fruits including apple, pear, grape, nashi, peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, cherry and to a lesser extent persimmon, kiwifruit and blueberries. About 70% of the current production occurs in temperate regions.
In financial year 2022, the production value of table grapes in Australia amounted to just over 722 million Australian dollars. Table grapes were the leading fruit product produced in the country in terms of production value, followed by apples at approximately 568 million Australian dollars.
Which fruit is at the top? The banana, of course! Over 100 billion bananas are consumed worldwide each year. India, China, Brazil, and Indonesia account for half of that consumption.
The banana (Musa sapientum) together with its relative, the plantain (Musa paradisiaca) is the most consumed fruit in the world.
Durians are regarded as the 'king of fruits', but many find their smell offensive.
Examples of Australian native plant foods include the fruits quandong, kutjera, muntries, riberry, Davidson's plum, and finger lime. Native spices include lemon myrtle, mountain pepper, and the kakadu plum. Various native yams are valued as food, and a popular leafy vegetable is warrigal greens.
Black Sapote is a very unusual tropical fruit. On the inside its like a rich gooey chocolate pudding without the sugar. It's a bit rich to eat on its own so eat it with other fruit like banana. It works better with other ingredients and makes terrific chocolate icecream.
“There's The Big Pineapple, kids... Not long until we reach The Big Prawn.” Part mischievousness, part 750-kilometre road-trip necessity, the towering produce, animals and seafood that dot the country have become Australian icons. This is what makes them larger than life.
Billardiera longiflora, the purple apple-berry, is a small Australian vine found in cool, moist forests from southern New South Wales to Tasmania, where it is native. It was described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805.
The types of fruit and seed depended on the season and availability, but could include wild passionfruit, wild oranges, bush tomato, bush banana, bush plums, mulga seeds and wattle seeds. Aboriginal Australians would also gather honey and nectar from bees, honey ants, flowers and trees.
One popular evergreen tree, found in Australia, is mangosteen. Originally found in South-East Asia and the Malaysian peninsula, this fruit has become a favourite in the nation.
Blue Quandong (also called Blue Marble Tree or Blue Fig, though it is not a type of fig) is more commonly grown as an ornamental, prized for its beautiful wood, attractive flowers and bright blue fruit. In Aboriginal cooking, the fresh fruit was mixed with water to make an edible paste.
Cherries have a reputation for being easy to pick and the work is well paid. You generally collect the cherries in buckets that you then empty into crates. Picking from trees often involves the use of ladders, which can make this a more difficult form of fruit picking.
Strone fruits - including apricots, cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums. Tropical fruits - such as mangoes, pineapple, melons, bananas and paw paw. Berries - like blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. Other fruits - like passion fruit and grapes.
Commonly referred to as the queen of tropical fruit, the mangosteen has left quite an impression across the globe.
Australian finger limes are a species of citrus fruit that are native to rainforests of the central eastern coast of Australia.
It was, whether true or not, enough to earn the mangosteen the widely-accepted title as "the queen of fruits."
Only one fruit, Grapes is liked by less than 10 people. All other fruits are liked by at least 10 or more people.
Tomatoes: The most eaten fruit in the world is tomatoes. Tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum. A tomato is 95% water, 4% carbohydrates, and less than 1% of fat and protein.