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Wood Apple Juice

A little hide-from-sun break @ "Hula Hula Cafe" in Galle.

 

What looks like a rusty cannonball but yet is a fruit that bear juices??

 

Look no further than the odd-looking Wood Apple {Limonia acidissima}....which from afar, looked so like a rusty cannonball!

 

The fruit has a very hard rind which can be difficult to crack open, and contains sticky brown pulp and small white seeds. It can be made into a fruit juice with astringent properties.

 

The taste and aroma were both equally odd - characteristics of wine, soysauce and chiku all surfaced. And the texture of the juice was grainy and rough. I was not smittened but my jaw dropped when mate finished it all!

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Uploaded on January 7, 2017
Taken on December 27, 2016