The tropical fruit that looks like eggs, often called Eggfruit or Canistel, has a bright yellow, creamy flesh with the texture and consistency of a hard-boiled egg yolk, though it's sweet and can be used in desserts like custard or eaten fresh with a sprinkle of salt. Its outer skin is typically green, turning yellow-orange when ripe, and it's known as yellow sapote in some regions.
Lucuma campechiana (commonly known as the cupcake fruit, eggfruit, zapote amarillo or canistel) is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Canistel. Also known as eggfruit or yellow sapote, it has a dense, cake-like texture that tastes similar to sweet potato. Can take a week or more to fully ripen. Fruit is ripe when you can gently push a dent into the skin all around the fruit.
Shape: The fruit is round to oval, hard and green turning soft and yellow-orange at maturity. The yellow flesh is meaty with the consistency of a boiled egg. Preparing/serving: Canistel fruit can be eaten fresh with salt and lemon juice or mayonnaise; made into custard or ice cream; or into pies.
Peaches of Immortality. In Chinese mythology, Peaches of Immortality (Chinese: 仙桃; pinyin: xiāntáo; Cantonese Yale: sīn tòuh or Chinese: 蟠桃; pinyin: pántáo; Cantonese Yale: pùhn tòuh) are consumed by the immortals due to their mystic virtue of conferring longevity on all who eat them.
They say egg fruit tastes like a combination of mango, pumpkin, sweet potato, and custard all in one. The texture is similar to that of a cooked egg yolk, and it has a scent reminiscent of mango with a hint of vanilla.
Also known as eggfruit, due to its shape and deep yellow-orange color (like that of an egg yolk), Canistel is a creamy and decadent dessert-like fruit, whose flavor to us is somewhere between sweet potato pie and vanilla frosting. Other common names are “cupcake fruit” and yellow sapote.
Papple Harvest
This new variety of fruit was developed in New Zealand, where it was officially known as PremP109 and is now known as a Papple. The Papple is a hybrid of two European and Asian pear varieties that looks a bit like an apple. It is very sweet and juicy with nashi like flesh.
Tamarillo The tamarillo is an egg-shaped tree fruit that is popular globally, especially in Peru, Colombia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Nepal, Rwanda, Burundi, Australia and Bhutan.
Cherimoya. The cherimoya is a funky looking fruit. It's oddly shaped, about the size of a small coconut and it seemingly has scales. The hard green skin of the cherimoya hides a firm white flesh that is filled with large brown seeds.
The feijoa, also known as pineapple guava, is a prolific green, egg-shaped fruit with a cream-colored center. It's a popular backyard tree for New Zealanders, explains Donna Cox, a member of the Rotary Club of Papakura, New Zealand, “as the trees take little looking after and usually crop well.” Sometimes too well.
Deliciously sweet, perhaps closest in taste to white grape pulp, the granadilla grows in tropical regions, hanging from vines like bunches of grapes. “The inside looks like mushed up alien goo" says Andrew. I can't vouch for that but it looks akin to frogspawn to me.
Citrus australasica, the finger lime or caviar lime, is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It has edible fruits which are grown as a commercial crop.
In appearance, kumquat fruits resemble miniature oval oranges the size of a plum, to taste - a tangerine with a slight sourness; edible completely, with a sweet peel. The average size of a kumquat fruit ranges from 2 to 4 centimeters in width and 3 to 5 centimeters in length.
Canistel flesh is sweet, with a texture often compared to that of a hard-boiled egg yolk, hence its colloquial name “eggfruit”. It is closely related to the lucuma, mamey sapote, and abiu. More than 6 hours of direct bright sunlight a day is ideal for plant.
The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (Persea americana) is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to the Americas, with archaeological evidence of early human avocado use dating back thousands of years across various regions of Central and South America.
Jackfruit is called the "poor man's fruit" because it's incredibly abundant, easy to grow with minimal care, provides massive yields (one fruit can feed a family), and was historically a cheap, filling staple for economically weaker sections in Asia, especially India, though it's now recognized globally as a valuable meat substitute. Its massive size and prolific nature made it an accessible source of nutrition, especially during food scarcity, earning it this nickname despite its high nutritional value.
Jackfruit Antioxidants
Jackfruits are a good source of: Carotenoids. These plant compounds give jackfruit flesh its bright yellow color. They help fight inflammation, heart disease, cancer, and age-related eye problems.
The unhealthiest way to eat eggs involves high-heat frying in large amounts of unhealthy fats (like butter, bacon grease) or unhealthy oils, which adds saturated fat and calories and can oxidize cholesterol, plus adding processed meats or excessive cheese, turning a nutritious food into a heart-unhealthy meal high in inflammation triggers, though raw eggs pose a risk of salmonella and biotin deficiency, note Health Digest, Eat This Not That.
Like other orange-colored fruits, eggfruit is high in beta-carotene and niacin. Which protects eyes, gives hair sheen, and maintains healthy skin. It helps with preventing and eliminating various inflammations in the body. Due to the high levels of minerals present in the fruit, it may help lower blood pressure.
Egg fruits are also commonly known as Canistel fruits and are a close relative of the well-known tropical fruit, sapota, or sapodilla. In addition to Canistel, the fruits are sometimes known as Yellow Sapote and are referred to by many other regional names worldwide.
The eggplant emoji (U+1F346 🍆 AUBERGINE), also known in English, French and its Unicode name as aubergine, is an emoji featuring a purple eggplant.