Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy?

Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by zokier on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:59AM (#33141097)

Figs work excellently as dried fruit, and afaik you can dry pretty much any fruit. So is that the simple solution here for pawpaws too?

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by 7thaccount on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:59AM (#33142439)

Good point, but I think it's a no. You can't dry a mango right? I guess a better question is if you can just freeze pawpaw.

An interesting little semi off-topic point, but dried figs somehow taste very differently than fresh figs. This was a shock to me. Fresh figs are close to peaches in a way.

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by irrational on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:33PM (#33142745)

Uh… we buy bags full of dried mangos from Costco all the time. You can definitely dry mangos.

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by Fatnino on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:09PM (#33142541)

Where do you get that you can't dry mango?

There are multiple ways to dry mango and the end results are different. You can get any kind in a normal grocery or even in bulk at Costco.

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by 7thaccount on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:07PM (#33145358)

Oh, easy one. I was just very wrong apparently lol.

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by al2o3cr on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:35PM (#33142764)

You can indeed freeze the pulp, that's what one of bigger places that sells pawpaws does:

https://integrationacres.com

The product page also supplies an additional hint why the fruit hasn't been commercialized: cooking with it can sometimes make people sick.

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Re:Why Is the Most American Fruit So Hard to Buy? by ChoGGi on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:09PM (#33142534)

I like munching on dried mangos?

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