Wax Jambu Fruit : Fruits are pear-shaped structure and have a thin pink skin, with crisp white tissue, which is slightly aromatic in taste and smell. Wax Jambu is native to Philippines, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Common names of the fruit include wax apple, love apple, java apple, chomphu, wax jambu, rose apple, bell fruit, makopa, tambis Philippines. The wax apple tree also grows in the Caribbean. Dominican Republic a small sub-species of the wax apple is known as cajuilito, or small cashew. The fruit is also used to add taste to salads with a faint compliment to the flavor.
Wax jambu with Red is also known as rose apple, and also makopa, java apple. It is looks like a pear shaped fruit with waxy skin and crusty flesh related to the malay apple. Fruit is regularly juicy, with a faint sweet taste similar to that of an apple. Superior varieties of the fruits are of excellent quality with crunchy taste.
These showy flowers bear in drooping panicles of 3 to 20 will fall within 2-3 days of blooming, leaving behind the tiny fruits to mature at the same climatic condition which ripens in about 2 months. A healthy tree will produce abundant fruits and it has two fruiting season per annum, May-September and November to March.
Wax Jambu Varieties
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1.White Wax jambu.
Fast growing tree in the philipines country is Wax Jambu, attractive pink colored pear shaped fruit that are crunchy, tasty and stimulating on a hot summers day. Produces and crops are all well protected from frosts in subtropics when they are young.
2.Red Wax jambu
Red waxy skin with crunchy white flesh. Highly attractive ornamental fruit, as well as sweet and tasty fruit in philippines. It's a fast growing tree with attractive red pear shaped fruits that is crunchy and refreshing on a summer day. A highly ornamental fruit due to its arresting red color.
3.Pink Wax jambu
A popular selection and popular fruit in Asia is Wax Jambu fruit, the sweetest selection. Pink Wax jambu fruit is very similar to that Red Wax Jambu but it has white waxy skin and is sweeter, but more cold sensitive in nature.
1.Food and Nutrition
Preparation / Food:
Usually the fruit is eaten fresh, but it is mainly used in salads. In Thailand it is most popular in addition to spicy shrimp salad.
2.Wax jambu Nutrition facts
Nutritive value per 100 g of Wax jambu | ||
Principle | Nutritive value | |
Total Fat | 0.3g | |
Cholesterol | 0 mg | |
Sodium | 0 mg | |
Carbodytrate | 5.7g | |
Magnesium, Mg | 12mg | |
Proteins | 0.6 mg | |
Calcium | 29 mg | |
Potassium | 123 mg |
1.Wax apple (Jambu) Salsa :
Ingredients:
- 4 wax apples, chopped
- ¼ cup spring onions, chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh mint, chopped
- 2 chillies, chopped
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ½ red pepper, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- ½ tsp fresh pepper seeds
- Pinch of ground fennel
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together and leave for a couple of hours before serving2.Eat Wax jambu Fruit:
The fruit is crisp, almost crunchy and juicy in taste with a mild scented flavor, tasting mildly sweet. Fruits can also be added in salad and the unripe fruits can be eaten with salt or dipped in a sweetish-spicy sauce.