When sliced, star fruit (Averrhoa carambola L.) has five points and looks like a star. Ripe star fruit tastes sweet with some tart, sour, or tanginess. It's been compared to a combination of pear, ...

Averrhoa carambola trees are native to Southeast Asia and are also ... cheese plates, and yogurt parfaits. Ripe star fruit has a sweet, slightly tart taste and a grape-like texture. The entire fruit, ...

Pears are one of the few fruits that ripen after they are picked, so they will often be sold unripe at the store — but that doesn’t mean you should pass them up! If you store the fruit ...

Ripeness is all. It is the difference between a piece of fruit being OK and being utterly wonderful. So it is infuriating when things just won't ripen. I have found the real culprits are the ones ...

Here’s everything you need to know to find ripe pawpaw fruit. Pawpaw trees have long, oval-shaped leaves and can vary from short shrubs to 25-feet tall. The bark is light gray with a smooth texture ...

or any bruised fruit, which tends to ripen and rot more quickly. Once the flies get in your house, she said, they'll lay eggs everywhere they can -- in rotten fruit or any fermented substances.

Buying green bananas, or any unripe fruit for that matter, is a test of faith. You assume that they'll soon ripen and be perfect to eat. But sometimes, when you buy green bananas from the store ...

Do you want to send a traditional fruit basket, or something a little more creative? Consider the assortment of items when choosing a basket. For the traditionalist, a box of perfectly ripe pears ...

To reap the rewards of an overzealous apricot tree, Romero invited eight bucket-toting people to harvest the fruit. Even so, the skeletons of apricots littered the ground on Wednesday — Romero ...