Monstera fruit, also known as Swiss cheese plant fruit, is a tropical delicacy that is gaining popularity for its unique flavor.
This is another potentially poisonous fruit. If you eat it unripe, it will feel like a thousand tiny needles stabbed your tongue, and then you’ll get pains along your digestive tract (I don't know this first hand, because we waited until the fruit was ripe. But this is what the man who sold the fruit to us told us). These ill effects are due to it containing calcium oxalate crystals when the fruit is unripe.
This fruit has a way of telling you when it’s ripe. First, ripe fruits have a strong, sweet smell. Second, when the scales easily flake off with just your fingernail, that part of the fruit is ripe. The whole thing doesn’t ripen at once, either, so you can only take a few bites at a time.
This fruit has a way of telling you when it’s ripe. First, ripe fruits have a strong, sweet smell. Second, when the scales easily flake off with just your fingernail, that part of the fruit is ripe. The whole thing doesn’t ripen at once, either, so you can only take a few bites at a time.
The plant the fruit comes from is actually a beautiful philodendron—and is the only type of philodendron that gives edible fruit. Some people call it the Swiss cheese plant. The holes in the leaves do remind you of Swiss cheese!
It tasted as we expected once we had read about it on the Internet - a cross between pineapple (flavor) and banana (flavor and texture). Not something I'd rush out to buy again (because it was expensive - we bought two for €21), but definitely interesting and quite pleasant.
Have you ever tried this fruit? What did you think?
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