The Guinep fruit is a small tropical fruit that grow widely through out Jamaica and the Caribbean. The fruit is also know as Spanish lime, mamoncillo, genip or ackee in other Caribbean countries such as Guyana and St Lucia You may have heard of guinep or eaten the fruit before […]
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Jamaica Ackee Fruit
Ackee is a tropical fruit that grow widely through Jamaica on evergreen trees that can grow as tall as 75 feet. In Jamaica the ackee is in season between January to March and June to August. Although ackee is a fruit it is treated like a vegetable, just like tomato […]
Naseberry Fruit The Jamaican Sapodilla
The Jamaican naseberry fruit, also known as sapodilla, is a tropical fruit native to the Caribbean and Central America. But the fruit is also grown in other tropical regions such a Asia and India. In Jamaica the fruit is known as naseberry, or neeseberry as we Jamaican pronounced it. The […]
How much do you know about the Otaheite apple?
As Jamaicans, we know it as apple but the Jamaican apple is actually called Otaheite apple or Malay apple or rose apple depending on where you are in the world. The botanically known as syzygium malaccense. The Jamaican apple have a pear like shape with a single large seed that […]
Jamaican Fruit Guava
Although sometimes taken for granted in its homeland, the Jamaican guava fruit it known as a “superfood” in other areas of the world. So what is it about the guava that everyone thinks is so great that we Jamaican fail to acknowledge? In a Jamaica we have a variety of fruits, […]