Guyabano or Soursop

The Soursop is known for its fruit and moist pet food of Filipinos. It has green skin and sharp point, while the flesh was white and it was very moist. The tree has a modest size and the leaves are smooth. It can grow in many places in the world, particularly in South America and Southeast Asia including the Philippines.

History
Since ancient times, used the different parts such as soursop stems, leaves, roots, fruits and seeds of the fruit in the treatment of all types of diseases. Including the use of different methods of treatment are the native Indians of South America as a response to heart disease, asthma, liver problems and arthritis.

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Passion Fruit-Healthy Juice & Dessert

Passion fruit is an everlasting tree-living vine which is native to the tropical regions of America.
The two most common commercial varieties are purple passion fruit or Passiflora edulis L. where mainly cultivated in Africa and India and yellow passion fruit or P. edulis f. flavicarpa in Peru, Brazil and Ecuador. Passion fruit in Spanish is Granadillas.

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Atis-Sugar Apple

 The atis (English: custard apple , atimoya , sweetsop , or sugar apple ) fruit of the tree called scaly custard-apple Annona squamosa derived from the Caribbean and South America. Annona squamosa is its scientific name

This species is now cultivated in most tropical countries like Colombia, El Salvador, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines.

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Mangosteen

The mangosteen fruit ( Garcinia mangostana ) is a species of trees of the genus Garcinia, family of Clusiaceae. It is an evergreen tropical originated in the Sunda Islands and of the ' archipelago of the Moluccas.

The tree grows up to a maximum height of between 7 and 25 meters, and has a bark dark brown verging on black.  In the Philippines, most of the mangosteen harvest comes from Sulu, Zamboanga and Davao del Norte.

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Rambutan

The rambutan, like lychee, has a skin covered with thick red hair. The flesh is translucent and sweet, with a hard central core. The name of the plant is derived from the Malay word Rambut from the "hair" means and refers to the occupied fruit densely covered with bristles.

The rambutan is a fruit edible, very abundant in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand. It is red in color (can also rarely present yellow or orange), with a hard shell coated with "thorns" tender, resembling small hedgehogs. Its interior is fleshy pulp with a translucent pink color, sweet and slightly acidic. Contains only one seed (seed), brownish, toxic, so it should never be consumed with their flesh.

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Banana

The banana is a plant of the family of Musaceae. The term banana is applied to the fruit of the plant, which is developed (in the species and variety edible) in a series of clusters. Bananas typically weigh 125 to 200g, although this weight varies considerably between the different cultivars. The fruit is edible for about 80%, the remaining 20% peel and can be eaten raw or cooked .

In popular culture and commerce, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet banana used as a fruit. Instead cultivars of Musa fruit harder and rich in starch are called plantains. This distinction is purely arbitrary and plantain and banana are sometimes interchangeable depending on the context.

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Pineapple

The pineapple ( Ananas comosus ) is a plant from the family of Bromeliaceae. It is originally native to America and is now cultivated worldwide in tropical areas as fruit plant. It forms fleshy fruit stalls, which are eaten fresh or made ​​into preserves and juice.

There are also many wild species, belonging to the same group and gender. The fruit when ripe is very acidic flavor and often sweetened. In cooking can be used as a powerful meat tenderizer. Usually we use the pulp of the fruit, but its core and the shells may be common for juice production.

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Durian

The durian is the fruit of the trees of the genus Durio, belonging to the family Malvaceae. The fruit is much used and appreciated in Southeast Asia, and called there "the king of fruits." The fruit stands out for its huge size, unique odor and formidable shell protected by thorns.

The fruit can grow up to 30 centimeters in diameter and usually weighs one to three kilograms. Its shape can range from oblong to round, the color of the husk green to brown and the flesh pale yellow to red, depending on the species.

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Langka

Jackfruit or Langka has a tropical plant of the family of Moraceae. It is cultivated for its fruit, the largest in nature from those that grow from trees.

The fruit therein, is yellow, similar to the handle. Its juice is slightly acidic and deeply sweet, with a flavor reminiscent mango mixture with orange.  It is an exotic fruit that is sweet in the toko for sale. Young, unripe jackfruit is used as a vegetable. The fruit is often sold in cans, but markets are sometimes parts of fresh fruits. There are also chips and ice cream, made ​​of jackfruit. With dishes in the oriental cuisine, such as Filipino, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Indonesian, is the fruit used.

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Coconut

The coconut palm ( Cocos nucifera ) is a tropical tree of the family of the palm family, where the coconut grows.

The coconut fruit is formed of a core (or trunk) surmounted by a crown of wide sheets . In the axil of each leaf is usually inflorescence that develops in a regime responsible for coconuts. In appearance and relatively smooth light colored trunk door regular brands: each sheet produced by the tree leaves a scar in the shape of a crescent.

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Papaya

Papaya ( Carica papaya ) or pawpaw tree, is a plant from the family of melon tree plants (Caricaceae). This tropical fruit crop is said to come from Mexico.

It is a berry tasty, generous complex flavors, ovoid or rounded, 21-31 cm long, edible pulp, which weigh about one kilogram (sometimes up to 5 kg ) and containing numerous seeds black surrounded by a mucilage. At maturity, papayas are yellowish green, with a juicy, orange-yellow.

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Mango

The mango, is a tree belonging to the family of Anacardiacee, a native and cultivated in all areas of tropical.  In the Philippines, the top producers of mangoes are the provinces of Pangasinan (30%), Isabela (15%), Negros Occidental, Zamboanga del Norte, and Nueva Vizcaya.

Mango is a fruit type drupa, varied coloring: yellow, orange and red, more roseada side who suffers direct sunlight and more yellowish or greenish on the side that receives indirect sunlight. Normally, when the fruit is not yet ripe, its color is green, but it depends on the culture. The pulp is juicy and very tasty, in some cases fibrous, sweet, enclosing a single seed in the center large. The sleeves are used as food in many different ways, but is most consumed fresh.

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Guava

The genus Psidium ( guava in a broad sense, properly the name of guava refers to the most economically important species, Psidium guajava ) includes a hundred species of trees and shrubs of the Myrtaceae.

The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 5-15 cm long. The flowers are white, with five petals and numerous stamens. The fruits are edible, round or pear-shaped, long from 3 to 12 cm depending on the species and variety. The thin skin of different colors depending on the species, hides a creamy flesh with many seeds small and hard.

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