What Is Your Favorite Tropical Fruit?

I know a lot of you live outside Philippine borders, in 100+ different countries and hundreds of cities across the globe. But assume for a moment you are home, or have access to the fruits that were/are available in the Philippines, what would be your top 5 fruits (same question for all of you who do live here)? I am trying to figure out if my choices are the same as most of my readers, as well as come up with a list of the ten most desired fruits. Ideally, the fruits you mention should be grown here rather than imported for the most part (hence, oranges would mean dalandan or satsumas, not valencias or blood oranges). My list would probably include carabao mangoes, pomelos, mangosteen, kalamansi at the top, but the next few it gets dicey, maybe (saba) bananas, chicos, lansones, duhat, santol, dalandan, dayap, coconuts, etc. If you can’t recall all the fruits, here is a link to the Marketmanila Philippine Fruit Index that summarizes many of the fruit posts on this blog. Once I get a feel for the super popular choices, I may run a poll to see which ones you really rate very high… Thanks!!!

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162 Responses

  2. 1. Ripe Mangoes from Zambales or Guimaras
    2. Banana (latundan and saba only)
    3. Strawberries (Baguio)
    4. Buko
    5. Pineapple

  3. am hungry for these as can’t find them anywhere in europe so far:

    sweet lanzones, fresh coconut, sineguelas from antipolo, santol. the atis aka cheremoya you get here are fantastic…large, fleshy and almost seedless!

  4. Top of my list is lanzones. When I see some being sold and they taste good, I can’t resist buying.

    I love mangoes, bananas and chico too but can resist buying them.

    What I don’t like: chesa, siniguelas and duhat

  6. I got simple taste in fruits:

    1. green mango (the super sour ones!)
    2. duhat
    3. buko
    4. strawberries
    5. pineapple

  9. 1. ripe mangoes from Zambales, Mindanao and Mindoro
    2. macopa
    3. balimbing
    4. atis
    5. lanzones

  11. Davao is Fruit heaven and during harvest season I have my fill of:
    1. Pomelo (senorita, reddish pink and very juicy)
    2. Durian (native, sticky, bitter and smelly)
    3. Mangosteen
    4. Carabao Mango
    5. Lanzones (duko)

  12. 1. Mango – green or yellow. Philippine variety is the best
    2. Calamansi
    3. Pomelo
    4. Banana – saba and senyorita
    5. Pineapples from Bukidnon

  19. 1. Calamansi
    2. Strawberries
    3. Mangoes
    4. Melons
    5. Rambutan

    (Wouldn’t it be great if it were possible to develop a commercial production of cherries here…?!)

  20. 1) ripe guadalupe mangoes
    2) our own backyard-grown avocados
    3) langka
    4) lansones
    5) marang

  26. mango, kalabao followed by piko
    chico
    suhang sungsong
    atis
    papaya, ripe or halfway ripe

    I actually have a different set of favorites for every moment of the year.

  35. 1.pomelo
    2.lanka
    3.indian/carabao mangoes
    4.siniguelas
    5.lanzones/mangosteen/santol
    Can’t decide between lanzones/mangosteen/santol for the 5th spot–they all fall under the category of sweetish but tart

  42. cheremoya is actually not an atis, taste different to, but yeah that is what is available here in Texas. Anyway, my faves are:
    1. Atis
    2. Lansones
    3. Langka
    4. Green and yellow mango
    5. Fresh, fresh guyabano

  43. hello epi! good to find another taga-davao here. mine would be:
    1. mangosteen
    2. durian
    3. ripe carabao mangoes
    4. lanzones-the native variety (for some reason, i don’t like the duko and longkong varieties)
    5. atis
    (pwedeng 10? i also like guyabano, chico, rambutan, marang and the chupadera mangoes (the small ripe ones)

  47. 1. ripe mangoes (indian or carabao)
    2. lanzones
    3. chico
    4. papaya
    5. banana (latundan, senorita, or saba)

  48. hi mm.i already told you what my top three favorite tropical fruits (as if you remember :)… anyway, here’s my top 5:
    1. honey dew melons
    2.

  54. 1. Philippine Mangoes – Zambales or Guimaras
    2. Formosa Pineapples from Camarines Norte
    3. Langka
    4. Pakwan
    5. Melon

  56. 1. Mangoes (all types — kalabaw, piko, paho…)
    2. Atis
    3. Chico
    4. Santol
    5. Bananas (lakatan, latundan, saba)

  67. 1 star apple (kaimito)
    2 suha (pomelo)
    3 atis
    4 chico
    5 watermelon (pakwan)

    runners up would be avocado, mangosteen, pajo, sineguelas (really ripe) and kamias. funny never thought of calamansi and bananas as fruits. I know they are and i love both but bananas seemed to be a regular on our dining table so it was part of the meal, not fruit. Calamansi was used for cooking so often… does that make sense?

  68. not in any particular order

    indian mango (is it really indian, as in from india? hahaha) [super yummy with spicy ginisang alamang!!]
    uber ripe duhat
    kaimito or star apple
    santol [i love this buro style]
    sampalok/ uber sweet sweet sweet tamarind

  74. If I were stranded on an island for the rest of my life, I could never get enough of

    atis,
    langka,
    papaya,
    saba (this is considered a fruit, right?)

    I just noticed that comments are date-stamped with the blog’s time zone. I got confused there for a second and thought I had the wrong date – lol!

  81. mine would be:
    1. mango (the best!)
    2. seedless pomelo (wow…)
    3. watermelon (yumm…)
    4. singkamas (hehe)
    5. rambutan (aww!)

  83. 1. Ripe Mangoes
    2. Green Mangoes
    3. Aratiles – unavailable anywhere, even in Philippine markets
    4. guavas
    5. bananas

  84. well here in Dallas we can get Mangoes, Rambutan, Jackfruit, Carambola, Suha, Papaya and Duryan — what I miss are Lanzones, Atis, SANTOL!, Duhat, Siniguelas, Saresa, the Cashew fruit, Caimito and maricopa

  85. my list includes:
    1) ripe mangoes
    2) chico
    3) latundan and saba banana
    4) atis
    4) pomelo
    5) buko

  86. 1. Mangoes from Gumaras (green & ripe)
    2. pomelo (Davao)
    3. melon & watermelon
    4. Buko
    5. Lanzones

  91. my choices: 1. mangoes from zambales 2. chico 3. atis 4. lanzones 5. suha
    nothing like tropical fruits!

  92. I’m surprised nobody mentioned these favorite fruits of mine.

    1. Camachili- pithecellobium dulce

    2. Tamarindo (sampaloc)- tamarindus Indica

    3. Ratiles – Muntigia Calabura Linn

    4. Bignay – Antidesma bunius

  95. 1. durian (a new discovery)
    2. atis
    3. pomelo
    4. buko
    5, duhat

    i love mango ice cream and mango cream pie but i don’t eat fresh mangoes

  99. lanzones, papaya, lacatan from baguio, suha, mangga (1st five)
    a wise filipino once said ” kainin natin and lahat ng prutas na ibinubunga ng ating mga pananim upang hindi tayo pagtampuhan ng bunga at hingiin sa Panginoon na ilipat sa ibang lupain.”

  101. 1. sugar pineapples, dead ripe fresh from the fields
    2. bananas – tiny bananas the size of my thumb that the manager of the Hotel Milano in San Juan Puerto Rico grew
    3. Turkish figs, ripe & warm from the hot summer sun
    4. wild blackberries
    5. fresh, ripe peaches

  105. Only 5??? That’s tough since our fruits rock! :) Here’s mine:
    1. Ripe mangoes
    2. Mangosteen
    3. Bananas
    4. Pineapples
    5. Kalamansi

  107. Hi MM,
    Here is my top 5:
    1) Pineapple from Calauan, Laguna (Dry season)
    2) Atis
    3) Green and Ripe Mangoes
    4) Bananas
    5) Pakwan

  113. 1. Mango
    2. Mangosteen
    3. Citrus (dalandan, calamansi, dayap)
    4. Avocado, if this counts (as a tropical fruit)
    5. Guava (for making into jam) or Santol (just for juice)

  120. 1. Balimbing–The small tart ones, not those imported from Thailand.
    2. Langka–Tree-ripened jackfruit, with ants crawling all over the rind, is the sweetest!
    3. Catmon–I haven’t seen a single piece of catmon in the past 20 years.
    4. Macopa–We used to have a tree, planted atop the pozo negro, that produced the plumpest, juiciest, reddest macopa in the world. :D
    5. Maligang–Best eaten “kinalugkog,” i.e. shaken with salt (or sugar, depending on your preference) in a plastic container (or between two bowls) until soft.

  121. Five lang?! Ang hirap naman pumili :)

    1. Green and Ripe Philippine mangoes
    2. Duhat
    3. Santol
    4. Pineapple
    5. Watermelon or langka (tie sila sa 5th place :)

  122. 1. semi-ripe mangoes ( agaw-tamis at asim)
    2. lanzones
    3. pomelo
    4. sineguelas
    5. philippine bananas

  124. 1. lanzones from caluan laguna
    2. watermelon red & yellow
    3. cantaloupe
    4. mango except carabao
    5. sweet santol

  127. top 5 (readily available here in australia):
    1. custard apple (nearly seedless, locally grown)
    2. ripe mangoes (big ones, nearly 1kg each, locally grown)
    3. watermelon (locally grown)
    4. lychees (locally grown)
    5. coconut (from thailand)

    top 5 on my wish list:
    1. atis (with lots of seeds :))
    2. ripe kalabaw mangoes (followed by ripe pico)
    3. saba
    4. chico
    5. lanzones

  130. 1. Durian from Davao
    2. Pomelo from Davao
    3. Lanzones from Camiguin
    4. Mangoes from Guimaras
    5. Rambotan! from Davao and farms in Negros

  131. Mangosteen
    Durian
    Lanzones
    Mangoes/pineapple
    Pomelo/pakwan
    MM, its so difficult to limit it to just 5!

  141. .rockmelon — how come no one mentioned this, it’s $8 here, and i remember ’twas around PHP15-20 back home… :'(
    .green mangoes
    .white banana (lakatan? not sure of the term. the short, stout ones) and saba
    .mangosteen
    .lychees and buko (the refreshing juice!)

  147. 1. pomelo (esp. Nenita’s)
    2. carabao mangoes (esp. the Zambales variety then Guimaras’)
    3. papaya (NATIVE)
    4. duhat, mangosteen, lanzones
    5. bananas (morado, baluy-green bananas, latundan), coconut, kalamansi
    6. marang, atis, avocado, chico, kaimito, aratilis

  148. 1. Mango- Kalabaw(green/yellow)
    2. Buko
    3. Avocado
    4. Banana- Lakatan (the native variety…saw bigger one last time I was home not as good)
    5. Caimito
    6. Chico
    7. Guyabano
    8. Langka
    9. Rambutan
    10. Siniguelas

  150. 1. hinog na manggang cebu
    2. marang from mindanao
    3. native durian (the ones with yellowish flesh)
    4. langka
    5. lacatan banana

  153. Silly Lolo, this turning out to be a fun game for me: finding the creative ways that you can get in the “Double M” name in your comments! Parang the “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” game! Wheeee! (Marta must be blushing to her roots with the free publicity)

  157. Here are my favorites:

    1. green mangoes – bubot mas OK
    2. Pinya
    3. bananas
    4. melon
    5. suha

  159. 1.manggang hinog
    2.banana
    3.langka
    4.manggang hilaw
    5.melon
    6.pakwan
    7.siniguelas
    8.duhat
    9.avocado

  160. Thanks, sierra1!

    Ooh, what an interesting fruit… as scary as durian though :-p

    Forgive my naive palate to these fruits. I promise to try that as soon as I find it out here…

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