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Lanzones

Filipeanut — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:19:21 +0000

Happy Lanzones Festival! 🎉 Lanzones are ubiquitous small brown balls of nature candy found all over the country. They’re also full of nutrients, such as magnesium, potassium, zinc, calcium, and iron! Lanzones trees are native to Southeast Asia, with the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand being main producers of commercial crops. They’re in-season now, and…

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Rambutan

Filipeanut — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:48:57 +0000

Rakenrol rambutan! They’re not hard to identify, because they play in live bands and are probably one of the hairiest fruits you’ll ever see. And don’t be intimated by the long “hair” and hardcore lifestyles, because underneath is a glossy white surprise inside. To eat them you can either use your thumbnails to pry open…

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Fruit Salad

Filipeanut — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:57:47 +0000

Fruit salad is a sweet, creamy concoction of canned delights. Though “fruit salad” in general could mean any combination of mixed fruits, the fruit salad Filipinos have for fiestas and birthdays is made with a base of canned fruit cocktail and canned condensed milk. From there, other recipes, households, and restaurants will add their own…

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Durian

Filipeanut — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:01:21 +0000

Durian are huge delicious fruits known mostly for their smell, and the durian pulp inside; which is creamy and sweet depending on the variety. “Durian” comes from the Malay word for thorn, ‘duri’ 1. Which makes sense because they are indeed thorny, and durian is native to Malaysia, as well as Indonesia and Brunei. It…

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