All the fruits described are insect resisting and usually have a fat peel and insect repulsive oils.
Just peel the
fruit or wash it and you can eat it.
You don't have to be afraid that you consume insects on eating the fruit.
Riding from Santiago to Santo Domingo, you can see extensive fields with just pineapples.
They taste sweeter here then the exported ones, because here they can ripen completely in the sun.
The pineapple belongs to the Bromelias family.
The internal flesh of this delicious tropical fruit is white with soft cottony strands that contain many seeds.
The fruit produces a fat, fresh and soft aromatic juice.
The juice is usually mixed with other fruit juices.
Is it a fruit or a vegetable?
Nowadays Avocado is used much in the western kitchen too.
The soft taste and the property to enrich the taste of other dishes have made the Avocado very popular.
What's crab without Avocado?
In a salad with some onions and lemon juice?
They also use it in hair lotions, shampoo and skin cream.
Bananas or Guineos are ready to eat, you have to cook or bake platano's before you can eat them.
Like a coconut, a banana is an important part of the daily food in tropical areas, and so it is in the Dominican Republic.
The banana is foreign in the Dominican Republic; Columbus imported them from the Canary Islands.
The banana is not a tree but a big plant with giant leaves.
The plant grows fast and in 12 to 14 months a banana plant carries fruits.
The yields are high, 30 to 45 kg of bananas each plant.
The banana bunches are harvested for export while still green.
They are shipped at 14 degrees Centigrade and ripened on their place of destination.
There is a great variety of bananas, from small to big, from yellow to almost red.
The smaller bananas usually taste better then the bigger ones, they're sweeter too.
The Platano or bake banana is eaten as you eat a potato.
Cooked, baked or fried.
Bananas are nourishing, but don't contain much protein, vitamins and minerals.
This giant jungle tree is also foreign; Captain Bligh imported the tree from Tahiti to Haiti in 1773 (You can see this in the movie 'Mutiny on the Bounty').
The tree has enormous leaves and carries green fruits with a hard structured skin.
The fruit is peeled first and then fried in slices. It's like a normal potato but it's sweeter.
The fruit is rich in vitamins A, B and C.
One of the varieties has a big brown stone inside and you can roast them like a sweet chestnut.
These plants can be seen much in the wild.
The fruit grows in brunches, has a yellow colour and soft pink internal flesh with a very strong perfume-like odour.
The fruit is used often to improve taste and flavour.
The fruit is rich in vitamin C, Iron and Calcium.
