Caribbean Fruit of the Month
Otaheite | Malay Apple | Pomerac | Malaka | Plum Rose | Golden Apple | Pomme d'Amour... and on and on
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."
7 Reasons the Bajan Cherry - Acerola is the Tastiest Secret in the Caribbean
Barbados didn't just grow the fruit — they put it on the map.
Walk into any health food store in Tokyo, London, or New York and flip over a vitamin C supplement. There's a fair chance the words "acerola extract" appear in the ingredients. The global nutraceutical industry sources acerola powder and concentrate on a massive scale, with Brazil now the largest producer. But the fruit still carries the Bajan island's name wherever it travels — Barbados cherry, every time.