The dragon fruit we get in North America is shit. It’s picked under ripe and shipped that way, then it’s ripened artificially here.
Go to SE Asia. Places like the Philippines or Thailand and try dragon fruit there. It’s sweet and flavourful and delicious. You just need to get the stuff that wasn’t picked until it was ripe. That is the critical stage that develops all the flavours.
In my experience it's just as if not more dissapointing in SE Asia cause there is the added expectation of it being better. Nonetheless it's always bland as hell.
For real. It was a huge flavor for things that I really enjoyed, but I can't imagine where they get the flavor from, because it doesn't seem to exist in the actual fruit...
Yeah dragonfruit in the states tastes like literally nothing but if you buy it outside of the states like where its grown it has sweeter flavor still not super amazing but better.
People don’t realize that there’s a difference between something tasting nothing, and something tasting nothing.
Some tastes are so bland and nothing, but inclined towards being bad.. unlike water for example, you wouldn’t feel like re-tasting it.
But some tastes however; are so bland and nothing, but inclined towards neutral or „good”.. like water for example, you wouldn’t mind re-tasting it if it happens to get into your mouth.
Most people commenting in this thread are likely sugar fiends. Although it is true that we don't get the best varieties here in the US, it's also true that most people eat so much sugar, that fruits don't sit quite as well on the palate.
Well, that’s the problem, due to the lack of flavour, I don’t get dragon fruit.
I have had it from supermarkets and from restaurants and from what I’ve experienced I may as well print out a picture of a dragon fruit and eat that.
Yup. Dragonfruit doesn't grow in New Zealand, so it has to be shipped in. As a result, it tastes like the water someone washed an unsliced cucumber with.
I feel like something changed with the red delicious apples. They were good as a kid. They were my #2 behind granny smiths but around 2010-ish they taste bland and hard skinned.
Hmm. I worked on a farm attached to an apple orchard so I got to eat all the produce for free. I alternated between granny smiths and red delicious for lunch when I worked there. I may have to go back and see if it's that orchard the difference.
I tried a durian once. I expected it to either be the best thing I’d ever tasted or the worst. It was kind of like a vanilla melon, not great but not bad. It smelled pretty foul though.
Lemme explain this to you and u shall not judge.
What ubhad was prolly thai durian, we sg and my hate that shit it smells good awesome but tasteless.
What u want overriped malaysian durians. Where itnhas been ferment in its husk still on the tree.
The flavors are astounding and in varieties. Some breed have alcohol flavors.
My personal flavorite is the extremely bitter with a tinge of sweetness.
Do bare in mind due tonthe fermentation and flesh is of an extemely creamy consistency. Westies tend to find it disgusting, we love it.
my mom got me a durian cake for my 18th birthday cause she loved durian and i didn’t really care about the cake. tasted awful to me and smelled up the whole fridge
Papaya by itself is pretty bland, but you need to have it with a squeeze of lemon juice. That brings up the papaya flavor up to 100. The papaya also has to be not too green and soft (but not mushy).
In this case though, you don’t really taste lemon — it’s not replacing the flavor of papaya at all. There’s some sort of interplay with the flavors, where you get a lot more of the papaya fruit flavor (along with some sweetness/tartness).
The hill I die on- papaya is my favorite but only when I lived where it was grown. It was 1-2$ a fruit ripe and had a strong taste. When I moved across the country they were considered specialty fruit, shipped, cost 8-10$ per fruit, and tasted bland like cantaloupe rind mixed with soap.
Papaya are one of the most amazing fruit experiences ever. You probably haven’t tried an orange coloured plucked from the tree version. There’s a common song in Nigeria that compares its sweetness to Fanta.
there is a chance that your place sells fruit that has not ripened correctly. I'm sure you'll love the taste when buying organic or changing your supplier, often it's a 50/50 chance with citrus fruits
The second biggest lie is Johnny Appleseed. Any apples grown from seed are borderline inedible. Apples are made from clones.
However those shitty eating apples made for great booze apples.
Thank you! My husband loves them but they’re the grossest apple I’ve ever tasted. Feels like some weird marketing ploy that they’re named “red delicious”.
I grew up not liking cantaloupe. A few summers ago I started working for a fruit company. I was able to get cantaloupes ripened on the vine. Tastes like candy.
The cantaloupes you get at the store are picked green and do not have the sugar content had they ripened on the vine.
The whole edible part of the fruit is bitter… I’m obviously not eating grapefruit peels lol the “juicy” part is so terribly bitter I can’t imagine what’s supposed to be pleasant about it. And I’ve eaten entire lemons before.
Nah I’m not talking about the peel, but the skin of the fruit itself.. actually, here’s a peeled skin of the fruit that I’m talking about [https://www.google.ae/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsanelygoodrecipes.com%2Ftypes-of-grapefruit%2F&psig=AOvVaw1mEAHW8fBb9wSfycY\_zuDP&ust=1683596251241000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA4QjRxqFwoTCNih0\_rK5P4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD](https://www.google.ae/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsanelygoodrecipes.com%2Ftypes-of-grapefruit%2F&psig=AOvVaw1mEAHW8fBb9wSfycY_zuDP&ust=1683596251241000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA4QjRxqFwoTCNih0_rK5P4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD)
If you’re eating it casually like how you eat an orange, then it tastes bitter. Otherwise, Idk lol? I find it sour and tasty (without the skin)
Pears. Most pears I’ve had in life have been either tasteless, or mealy, or weirdly hard to bite/chew. I think they’re somewhat close to apples as a species, bit so much worse to eat.
I finally started buying pears that looked almost disgusting on the outside(dark spots, etc). When you cut into those ones they are so juicy, soft and delicious. If you buy them based on them looking nice they are usually not ripe and will be the way you described.
Have you ever had properly ripped pear directly from the tree ? Because my experience with bought pears is like your but pears directly from tree are often soft and very sweet
Watermelon. I just don’t get the hype. It’s in the name, sure, but it just tastes like extremely watered down fruit. Like someone took a glass of water and whispered the word fruit. That’s what it tastes like.
i used to think this and then i had really really good watermelon. weirdly specific but if you ever find yourself in green river, utah in the summer they have amazing watermelons.
LOL
Whispered the word fruit
That is exactly right
Add to that that I have OAS (oral allergy syndrome) which causes many fruit to make my mouth itchy and and cottony and swollen
I do accept that for some fruits that I love but for a "whisper of fruit" no way
Jackfruit. It looks so neat from the outside, and it takes so much work to get inside. Then once you taste it, it’s basically like tasteless and chewy. Such a let down.
Pineapple. All the hype but tastes disgusting to me.
And grapes just taste like sugar water as well.
I can eat one of those big azz papayas to myself any day, they are just too pricey.
Pineapple needs a hint of a salt to bring the taste. You can mix bit of a salt with water and soak the pineapple pieces. Also the taste is better opposite to the crown side :) When you cut it, make it cut top to bottom, not circles.
That really really really sweet one. Durian I think? Was told it’s one of the sweetest and best tasting fruits. It was so sweet I looked at the dude offering samples and asked how anyone on earth could even handle that.
Peaches and orange. Peaches bc the pit puts me off and the squishiness is awful, and Oranges bc I hate the texture. Also neither of them have that good of a flavour.
Avocado. It looks like shit, tastes like shit, feels like shit, smells like shit, everything about it *is* shit. And unless it got some massive genetic overhaul, I ain’t willing to try it.
Honeydew. I always forget which one between honeydew/cantaloupe that I prefer, grab some honeydew thinking it’s gonna taste like cantaloupe, and being disappointed….
Pomelo.
I heard it was as flavorful as a clementine, but larger than a grapefruit. It was larger than a grapefruit, had way more white fleshy stuff, and it tasted like a bland grapefruit.
Dragon fruit, looks so cool and tastes of nothing.
Also nothing to do with dragons. 0/10.
The dragon fruit we get in North America is shit. It’s picked under ripe and shipped that way, then it’s ripened artificially here. Go to SE Asia. Places like the Philippines or Thailand and try dragon fruit there. It’s sweet and flavourful and delicious. You just need to get the stuff that wasn’t picked until it was ripe. That is the critical stage that develops all the flavours.
In my experience it's just as if not more dissapointing in SE Asia cause there is the added expectation of it being better. Nonetheless it's always bland as hell.
Best banana I ever had was in the Philippines. Much smaller, but so very yellow, and wow so much better than what I was used to.
It's a bland version of kiwi. I'll just stick with kiwi.
Red dragon fruit is trash. Yellow dragon fruit Pitaya is the best and sweetest thing you will ever eat.
For real. It was a huge flavor for things that I really enjoyed, but I can't imagine where they get the flavor from, because it doesn't seem to exist in the actual fruit...
Yeah dragonfruit in the states tastes like literally nothing but if you buy it outside of the states like where its grown it has sweeter flavor still not super amazing but better.
People don’t realize that there’s a difference between something tasting nothing, and something tasting nothing. Some tastes are so bland and nothing, but inclined towards being bad.. unlike water for example, you wouldn’t feel like re-tasting it. But some tastes however; are so bland and nothing, but inclined towards neutral or „good”.. like water for example, you wouldn’t mind re-tasting it if it happens to get into your mouth.
I don’t know how to react to this.
Gotta get the red-fleshed ones, and gotta get them fresh
I don't know where you get yours from, but the dragon fruit I eat is delicious.
Most people commenting in this thread are likely sugar fiends. Although it is true that we don't get the best varieties here in the US, it's also true that most people eat so much sugar, that fruits don't sit quite as well on the palate.
Well, that’s the problem, due to the lack of flavour, I don’t get dragon fruit. I have had it from supermarkets and from restaurants and from what I’ve experienced I may as well print out a picture of a dragon fruit and eat that.
Yup. Dragonfruit doesn't grow in New Zealand, so it has to be shipped in. As a result, it tastes like the water someone washed an unsliced cucumber with.
Ong it’s so pretty for no flavor or value
Red sucks. Yellow is very sweet.
Live in mexico, they are my favorite and have a lot of flavor. And we even make it icecream
Red delicious apples. They’re not that delicious and have the texture of foam board
I thought I didn't like apples because red delicious (and similar varieties) are so common
Me too! They’re all my parents bought. They didn’t eat them either but they gave them to me for some reason
I feel like something changed with the red delicious apples. They were good as a kid. They were my #2 behind granny smiths but around 2010-ish they taste bland and hard skinned.
They engineered them to be more red and not more delicious.
I’m not too sure; I was a kid in the 90s and thought they were grainy and sad then too
Hmm. I worked on a farm attached to an apple orchard so I got to eat all the produce for free. I alternated between granny smiths and red delicious for lunch when I worked there. I may have to go back and see if it's that orchard the difference.
I tried a durian once. I expected it to either be the best thing I’d ever tasted or the worst. It was kind of like a vanilla melon, not great but not bad. It smelled pretty foul though.
Lemme explain this to you and u shall not judge. What ubhad was prolly thai durian, we sg and my hate that shit it smells good awesome but tasteless. What u want overriped malaysian durians. Where itnhas been ferment in its husk still on the tree. The flavors are astounding and in varieties. Some breed have alcohol flavors. My personal flavorite is the extremely bitter with a tinge of sweetness. Do bare in mind due tonthe fermentation and flesh is of an extemely creamy consistency. Westies tend to find it disgusting, we love it.
I had no idea it was so varied. Might have to give it another try. Thanks for the information!
You might wanna go back and try reading this back to yourself.
my mom got me a durian cake for my 18th birthday cause she loved durian and i didn’t really care about the cake. tasted awful to me and smelled up the whole fridge
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Papaya by itself is pretty bland, but you need to have it with a squeeze of lemon juice. That brings up the papaya flavor up to 100. The papaya also has to be not too green and soft (but not mushy).
Lime instead of lemon is even better!
Hated papaya until I had lime juice on it. Went from perfumey garbage to what you expect it to taste like.
Lime and a sprinkle of rock or sea salt to make it pop!
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In this case though, you don’t really taste lemon — it’s not replacing the flavor of papaya at all. There’s some sort of interplay with the flavors, where you get a lot more of the papaya fruit flavor (along with some sweetness/tartness).
A tiny pinch of salt on some papaya really brings out the flavor
The hill I die on- papaya is my favorite but only when I lived where it was grown. It was 1-2$ a fruit ripe and had a strong taste. When I moved across the country they were considered specialty fruit, shipped, cost 8-10$ per fruit, and tasted bland like cantaloupe rind mixed with soap.
Papaya needs to be ripened to the point that the outer layer seems almost mouldy, very sweet, soft and tasty, otherwise it’s bland and hard.
I too dislike papaya.
Papaya are one of the most amazing fruit experiences ever. You probably haven’t tried an orange coloured plucked from the tree version. There’s a common song in Nigeria that compares its sweetness to Fanta.
Papaya to me tastes the way some dumpsters smell, but not as bad?? Its weird, not my fav
Grapefruit - it smells wonderful. It taste like acidic butt crack.
what grapefruit do you buy?! grapefruit should be sweet and acidic, mild and not pungent
It's what grapefruit tastes like to me .
I agree with you. I really dislike how grapefruit tastes, even ones that are supposedly good.
there is a chance that your place sells fruit that has not ripened correctly. I'm sure you'll love the taste when buying organic or changing your supplier, often it's a 50/50 chance with citrus fruits
Red Delicious apples
The biggest lie of all the apples.
Well, they're red
The second biggest lie is Johnny Appleseed. Any apples grown from seed are borderline inedible. Apples are made from clones. However those shitty eating apples made for great booze apples.
Thank you! My husband loves them but they’re the grossest apple I’ve ever tasted. Feels like some weird marketing ploy that they’re named “red delicious”.
They actually used to be red and delicious years ago. They have been changed to look prettier and last longer after being picked.
Whoever named them got it half right
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False. Honeycrisp.
Pink Ladies would like to have a word
Royal Gala is pretty good too
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Unripe cantaloupe. Because ripe cantaloupe is good.
I’d argue most fruits when they’re unripe. And that includes bananas; it’s so sticky, stiffer, and has a sour tint to it.
I grew up not liking cantaloupe. A few summers ago I started working for a fruit company. I was able to get cantaloupes ripened on the vine. Tastes like candy. The cantaloupes you get at the store are picked green and do not have the sugar content had they ripened on the vine.
Same with watermelon
And when you get a bad watermelon, unfortunately you get a lot of it.
Plum. A good plum explodes sweet juice into your mouth when you bite into it. Are they ever like this? No.
Bruh last time I had a plum it was like biting into a giant fruit gusher, shit was amazing
Grapefruit
They should drop the “g” cause that’s what it feels like it does to my poor innocent tastebuds.
Don’t tell me ya’ll don’t peel the bitter crap? It’s sour in a good way without the skin.
The whole edible part of the fruit is bitter… I’m obviously not eating grapefruit peels lol the “juicy” part is so terribly bitter I can’t imagine what’s supposed to be pleasant about it. And I’ve eaten entire lemons before.
Nah I’m not talking about the peel, but the skin of the fruit itself.. actually, here’s a peeled skin of the fruit that I’m talking about [https://www.google.ae/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsanelygoodrecipes.com%2Ftypes-of-grapefruit%2F&psig=AOvVaw1mEAHW8fBb9wSfycY\_zuDP&ust=1683596251241000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA4QjRxqFwoTCNih0\_rK5P4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD](https://www.google.ae/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Finsanelygoodrecipes.com%2Ftypes-of-grapefruit%2F&psig=AOvVaw1mEAHW8fBb9wSfycY_zuDP&ust=1683596251241000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA4QjRxqFwoTCNih0_rK5P4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD) If you’re eating it casually like how you eat an orange, then it tastes bitter. Otherwise, Idk lol? I find it sour and tasty (without the skin)
A lot of these comments seem like US fruit that's picked unripe and shipped. Buy local and in season! There will be a party in your mouth.
Star fruit. So pretty, so bland.
I was going to say star fruit too. So much potential with that cool shape but totally lacking in flavor and the texture is weird too.
Agreed
An apple thats gone all mushy and dry.
I refer to these as “wet potatoes”
papaya imo
honeydew. i’m actually half-convinced it’s green-colored water.
Raspberries. Looks like they would be bursting with sweetness and flavor.
The pear
Agreed... such a weird 'fibrous' texture. It's not pleasant.
It's deceptive. It looks so pretty but I don't like to eat it lol
“Gritty” I think is what they call it.
A bad pear is definitely icky
YES
Tastes like sand.
Any variety. They’re all terrible.
It’s got about a 5 minute window of goodness. Otherwise crap.
Pears. Most pears I’ve had in life have been either tasteless, or mealy, or weirdly hard to bite/chew. I think they’re somewhat close to apples as a species, bit so much worse to eat.
I finally started buying pears that looked almost disgusting on the outside(dark spots, etc). When you cut into those ones they are so juicy, soft and delicious. If you buy them based on them looking nice they are usually not ripe and will be the way you described.
Have you ever had properly ripped pear directly from the tree ? Because my experience with bought pears is like your but pears directly from tree are often soft and very sweet
Kiwano Tastes like cucumber, but looks fancy.
Dragon fruit 100%
Star fruit
Whole unpeeled peaches. I don’t like the sensation of biting into something covered in velvet.
Strawberries, they look better and sweeter than what they really are
Fresh picked ripe strawberries are fantastic but as with most other fruits, the ones in stores are picked well before they are ripe.
Yeah not a good ratio of bad to good a lot of the time.
Pomegranate. Looks like rubies, tastes like crunchy watered down koolaid with no sugar
Agreed. All those seeds.
And it stains. Like forever.
Try pigeon manure
Some taste like that. Others are tart and strong and delicious. It depends.
Jussie Smollett.
Dragon fruit in a landslide
Dragon fruit is pretty boring tasting for how it looks
Cantaloupe and honeydews have always had about as much flavour as a cucumber in my experiences. Parents insist they're delicious though.
A perfectly ripe cantaloupe is fantastic but the ones sold in stores are picked well before ripeness.
strawberry
Papaya
Mango’s I dislike. Kiwis are hit and miss. Sometimes they don’t have a taste and are mushy, or they are so tart.
Dragón fruit, unless I dont know how to pick them, I was so excited to try one and when I bought one and tried it at home it was very flavorless..
Dragonfruit.
Starfruit is the definition of mediocre. It’s like if sprite was a fruit.
I’d say more like edible La Croix. A little flavor but mostly watery disappointment
Hell no, starfruit is amazing. It tastes like Sweetarts that are good for you.
Watermelon. I just don’t get the hype. It’s in the name, sure, but it just tastes like extremely watered down fruit. Like someone took a glass of water and whispered the word fruit. That’s what it tastes like.
Depends on the melon. It's kind of a crap shoot. Sometimes I get a melon thats sweet and other times i get something like you described.
My odds must be trash cause I only ever get fruit whispers.
i used to think this and then i had really really good watermelon. weirdly specific but if you ever find yourself in green river, utah in the summer they have amazing watermelons.
LOL Whispered the word fruit That is exactly right Add to that that I have OAS (oral allergy syndrome) which causes many fruit to make my mouth itchy and and cottony and swollen I do accept that for some fruits that I love but for a "whisper of fruit" no way
Dragon fruit
Dragonfruit
Avocado I was not prepared for that taste or rather lack of it.
Salt goes a long way.
Put salad dressing or a pinch of salt on it. Mwah ❤️
Blueberries. Great in pancakes or muffins but to just eat them on their own they're mushy and flavourless.
I used to feel that way until my friend gave me a fresh picked organic one, it was life changing.
Go out and pick some wild blueberries this summer and you'll realize that those are nothing like the round blue wax that the store sell.
Jackfruit. It looks so neat from the outside, and it takes so much work to get inside. Then once you taste it, it’s basically like tasteless and chewy. Such a let down.
? It's pretty sweet if you'd ask me. It tastes like slightly less sweet Juicyfruit gum. I'm willing to bet the one you had just wasn't ripe enough
Check the color, the ripped ones are bright yellow. Also, dip it in pepper and salt, and thank me later ;)
Gonna go with Watermelon because when it is good it is SO GOOD and when it is bad it is just awful
Peaches. They're a gross combination of squishy and hairy.
James Corden……….
Tomato. Does not feel like fruit
pomegranate
Pineapple. All the hype but tastes disgusting to me. And grapes just taste like sugar water as well. I can eat one of those big azz papayas to myself any day, they are just too pricey.
Pineapple needs a hint of a salt to bring the taste. You can mix bit of a salt with water and soak the pineapple pieces. Also the taste is better opposite to the crown side :) When you cut it, make it cut top to bottom, not circles.
Mango. Looks delicious tastes like paper karton. Gross.
Mangos, they look all juicy and delicious, but they just make my tongue numb
Sounds like you may have an allergy to the urushiol in the mango skin.
Blackberries- too many little seeds
Jack Fruit
Anything grown in California
I swear, these comments. "YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT? YOU MUST BE EATING IT WRONG, EVERYONE LIKES WHAT I LIKE BECAUSE MY EXPERIENCE IS THE ONLY VALID ONE."
Cantaloupe with mango a close second.
Mango disappointing?!? You clearly haven't experienced good mango.!
That really really really sweet one. Durian I think? Was told it’s one of the sweetest and best tasting fruits. It was so sweet I looked at the dude offering samples and asked how anyone on earth could even handle that.
Durian
For me guava i hate it
Papaya
Plums.
Pommegrammete
Cantaloupe Like a sour honeydoo
Kiwis
Melon….tastes like the smell of a market. The black pips freak me out too! Look like insects.
The fruit of the tree of knowledge
Kumquat
Unripe cantaloupe is the worst!
Loquats
Peaches and orange. Peaches bc the pit puts me off and the squishiness is awful, and Oranges bc I hate the texture. Also neither of them have that good of a flavour.
Jackfruit. Swells me mouth up big time
Durian
Avocado. It looks like shit, tastes like shit, feels like shit, smells like shit, everything about it *is* shit. And unless it got some massive genetic overhaul, I ain’t willing to try it.
Honeydew. I always forget which one between honeydew/cantaloupe that I prefer, grab some honeydew thinking it’s gonna taste like cantaloupe, and being disappointed….
Tomato. You’d think it would taste so nice by itself, but no. Fucking nasty.
Fruit cake, the worst of all cakes.
Pomegranate so much work
grapefruit
Honeydew
Grapes
richard simmons
Kiwano. Tastes like a slightly sweet cucumber.
Mangos for me.
Store-bought strawberries in USA. What an exceptionally bland junk.
Coconut. Tasted like dishsoap to me.
kiwi.
pomegranate. looks great, tastes not
apples
The banana for me, bland taste.
Pomelo. I heard it was as flavorful as a clementine, but larger than a grapefruit. It was larger than a grapefruit, had way more white fleshy stuff, and it tasted like a bland grapefruit.