Earthy fruits

Known as tuna across Mexico. Watermelon meets strawberry meets a clean, earthy sweetness, with hard seeds you swallow rather than chew. Handle with a tea towel — even when the visible spines are gone, the glochids will catch you. Worth it for the colour alone.

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.