Trying FEIJOA for the first time 🇳🇿

Trying a feijoa feels like an experience we should have had much earlier considering we’ve been in Aotearoa for nearly 6 months but here we are

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[ladyofodd]

Feijoa is such a delicious and unique flavour. Their smell is very strong and can fill up a room easy even when their wrapped in plastic - very much like a floral perfume. And they taste just the same - if flowers had a universal taste it would be feijoa.

[Brogz]

When autunm starts in the south island is when you take them from their trees. Please dont buy them from the big food chain supermarkets. Honestly 1 in every 10 houses will have a fejoa tree on their property or in the publics parks. Look around and ask the locals and eat them for free.

[MCshadr]

Pronunciation was fairly close considering, but the i is spoken more like an e, so it's spelt Feijoa but said like FEEjoa

[rc-tk]

The skin is eatable and is tart/sour in flavour. The skins are blended up too in smoothies, same with baking. Taking a bite of the middle with the skin gives you sweet and sour flavours.

[emptyal]

Nothing like a passionfruit or apple! Closer to a guava in type and texture, and an aromatic / perfumey type flavour. Have loved them my whole life and damn, do they make a great crumble!

[newzealandearthmover]

They all taste different too.try many, many many of them. Also. It's kiwifruit. One word. Not kiwi. Kiwi is the bird. 👍

[fndmystory]

When they're really ripe, we would eat skin and all coz the inside is very very sweet and the outside is very very sour. Fun to eat coz you get mmm yum & sour face at once 🤣🎉

[KimBuchanan]

Eat the skin too with the inside for an even zingier taste! Feijoas are great as fruit or relish, puddings - so many ways! In Feijoa season they fall in the ground and you have to make quick use of them !

[JoyBlissWonder]

You either love them or hate them. They are great baked in a loaf or cake.

[geoffkeil]

Old school muncher on feijoas. LOVE THEM. I was lucky all through my childhood, I lived at houses or knew people that had huge, old, granddaddy feijoa trees. Tons and tons of feijoas every season.

These days, I make a feijoa and walnut ice cream when the season comes round.

[craigshrimpton]

Like the kiwifruit you can eat the skin too.

[Chris.Davies]

I currently have about 20 kilos of these overhanging from my neighbour's tree. :)
Feijoa jelly is extremely good.

[joannenepia]

We go mad for these when in season, , we love these so much!. It is a welcome sight when the weather starts to turn cold. Love from NZ. Such a delicious hot pudding with spongy topping. ..glad you tried it.

[parchedasbulkwater]

OHHH MY GOSH I LOVE FEJOES SOOOO MUCH AND THE LOLIES OF THEM R SOOOO GOOD

[tamiiihaaaa]

Hey guys, where abouts are you in nz? I’m from here. I live in Taranaki… lots of great pies, seafood, and loads of food here. Definitely recommend going to the patea hangi shop too! Also waitara taranaki, hilcrest dairy has the best homemade pies (b&e, m&c, seafood pie) 🥧

[KadeCrarer]

It's amazing I live in New Zealand now and they are so good!!!

[AMessageKeeper]

I have a feijoa tree at my house in the South Island. I've lived in nz my whole life, and I live feijoas

[TheSonglander]

To me the taste reminds me of a smelly house i went to as a kid one time and forgotten about until I tried a fejoa for the first time.
I don't mind them baked into a tart or crumble if mixed with apples.

[kristenturner]

I only know of these as pineapple guavas (from the US). The best unknown fruit I know of and my dad grows a few of these trees to enjoy the fruit.

[wombat]

They are the best. They are also called pineapple guava