Exotic Fruit

I used this writing standard: 11.R.4.1 Students can analyze a text within cultural, geographical, and historical context.

I am taste testing exotic fruits. During every piece of fruit I will write what I smell, taste, flavor, texture and appearance. I will also give my thoughts about the fruit’s characteristics.

I have accomplished everything that I wanted to for this cycle. Some difficulties were trying to find the exotic fruit and looking at different places. Some things I would do differently for this project: eat in class more and get the food earlier.

1) Cactus Pear
The appearance of the pear was a green outside with cactus pricks and reddish inside with a purple/ dark red seeds. The whole cactus pear smells like green beans. When we move onto the texture of the pear was like a watermelon, but had more seeds than normal. The flavor was very small and had a little bit of a sweet taste to it for a second, but really no taste. I really didn’t like the cactus pear because the seeds in the pear were not appetizing to me and had no specific taste to it.

2) Apple Pear
The yellow/gold outside and white inside describes the appearance of the apple pear. When you take a whiff of the apple pear it depends on what you smell, but I smell more of an apple than pear and other people says it smell more like pears. The texture of the pear was very juicy and had the watermelon membrane but tougher. When you taste the apple pear it’s like an apple and has the crisp bite into it and flavor of an apple, and later in that tasting period you can also taste the pear towards the end. The apple pear was very good and was my favorite out of all of the fruits.

3) Pomegranate
The appearance of the pomegranate was bigger than I thought it would be and it was an orangish red color and the inside was a red seeds and a milky white membrane that is holding the seeds in place. The aroma of the fruit also smelt like green beans. The texture of the pomegranate was smooth around the seed and the seed was rough and grainy when you were chewing on it. The flavor of the fruit was sweet on the outside of the seed and once I bit into it, it turned tart. The pomegranate was a delightful fruit because it had the sweet and tartness of the fruit was really good.

4) Persimmon
An orange tomato characteristic with green leaves for the outside and the inside was orange and had a star like shape of an apple. The odor of the persimmon was interesting because it smell nothing fruity or really pleasant. The texture of the fruit was soft and had little grain fibers inside of it. The taste of the persimmon had its own unique taste to it because I couldn’t think of anything that it tasted like. This one interesting fruits because it was very unique and delightful but I couldn’t eat that every day.