I'm sitting here eating some grapes, and I realize that nobody ever mentions grapes among the good fruits. They are seriously underrated! I could eat them all day. I can't stand grape juice though.... So, I ask: What are your underrated fruits? I would say grapes and Kiwis...they are not aprreciated as much as they should be.
I have to agree with your entire post. Grapes are damn good, and quite underrated. I really like all fruits - especially melons , so any that don't get a lot of pub are underrated to me.
The tomato----everyone things it is a vegetable, and Siegfried and Roy, they are really are quite talented though a little too Vegas.
I agree on Kiwis. Ya know what doesn't get enough run -- raspberries. Not the "Artificial Blue Raspberry" that you find everywhere, but the REAL raspberries. At work, whenever there is a function they order some food from somewhere and it always has piles of raspberries and blackberries on it. I skip the food and go right for those raspberries. THEY RULE!!
When you say underrated are you talking about fruits outside of the 'Big Three'? I mentioned plums but it would be criminal to omit honeydew melon, perhaps the sweetest of all melons. Honeydew melon belongs to the Cucumis melo L. Inodorus group which I find fascinating. I hate when they overripen and get Cladosporium or Geotrichum growth on them. You can find more fun facts about honeydew melons Here!!!!!!
Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. So is a watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber, and squash. A "fruit" is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds. Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and nonwoody. Most fruits, from a horticulture perspective, are grown on a woody plant (apples, cherries, raspberries, oranges) with the exception of strawberries. In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce. (A hundred years really hasn't changed anything.) it may be underrated in the US, but not worldwide. It's right up there with the banana in terms of worldwide consumtion.
