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Arecaceae

Palm family (snake fruit)

Fruits that grow on palms — snake fruit, dates, coconuts.

The family

Arecaceae is the palm family — and its strangest edible ambassador is the snake fruit, or salak. Each pod is wrapped in a brown, scaled skin that genuinely looks reptilian, and inside is a dry-crisp flesh that tastes of pineapple, molasses and a hint of vanilla. Dates and coconuts share the lineage but salak is the show-stopper.

Try thisPinch the pointed tip until the scales crack, then peel away like a hard-boiled egg.

In this family

1 fruit we source

In peak
Snake fruit (salak)
Salacca zalacca
Skin like reptile scale, flesh inside that crunches like apple. The flavour is unlike anything else — pineapple, molasses, a faint vanilla, with a clean tartness running underneath. Confronting on first sight, addictive on second bite. The Indonesian palm fruit you'll either love or pass to your braver friend.

Elsewhere in the Atlas

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Taste the family

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