Caribbean Apples

The fruit is oblong, waxy, and deeply red (sometimes pink or white), roughly the size of a small pear. Bite into it and you find crisp white flesh, mildly sweet with floral notes, faintly refreshing like a cross between an apple and a cucumber. What it lacks in intense sweetness it more than makes up for in character, in culture, and above all — in names.

"Every name this fruit carries is a passport stamp — the record of a journey that no other tropical fruit can quite match." 

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