Fruit Loves and/or hates?

Raspberries and mangoes. but probably not together.
Strawberries doused in a little maple syrups taste extra speacial.

Mangos, just ripe bananas and dried apricots work very well together, the flavours to complement each other.

Nectarines and dark cherries in season. Figs fresh off a tree in Greece, they dont taste as good after just a few hours in a shop.

I just noticed that Indinana has made exactly the same point about figs in Greece!

Melon is slightly sweet and wet. It does nothing for me at all.

Passion fruit makes me think of cat pee and/or a particular garden shrub I can't remember the name of right now.

I love cherries too, but they are so expensive it's just as well they are only available for a short time!

I love cherries wish they were available all year

Yes, or the compost (I did mean the food recycling bin LullyDully [halo])

They are in a cake as we speak and the oven is beeping

Or the compost.

Thanks for the recipe Ninathenana - the only thing to do with ripe bananas is put them into a cake (or the bin )

I love rasberries, loganberries and nectarines and peaches - but they have to be the big juicy ones!
I love plums if they're cooked.

I like most fruit except for over-ripe bananas, paw-paw and figs, I really can't eat any of them.

I love all fruit except oranges - I hate the texture yet I eat tangerines, satsumas and grapefruit.

I agree re the stringy bits on bananas LuckyDucky and I can only eat them if they're underripe.

I loath coconut; I can't stand the smell, taste or anything about it and that includes it being in shampoos etc.

I love strawberries and raspberries. But my all year favourite is bananas chopped up and covered in yoghurt, (or cream, just occasionally).

Can't think of a fruit I don't like. Always wonderful when in the Caribbean or other countries where the fruit comes from and it tastes so much better. Mangoes are a particular example. Far prefer strawberries in season ut can't seem to get through to DH not to buy then unless they are British!

If my DD's black lab doesn't get to them first, overripe bananas always go in a banana loaf, using this online recipe which is without doubt the best I've ever tried. Hint: the first time I made it I completely forgot to add the buttermilk, but it was delicious anyway. The next time I remembered, and I didn't think it was as good, so I never add it now .

Sorry, slight off topic there...

I can't really think of any fruit I hate, I wasn't particularly wild about pomegranates when I tried them, also don't go mad for blackcurrants, I wouldn't opt for those in a jam for example, but pretty much love everything else. I eat bananas constantly, but there is an optimum time, IMO, when they are at their best, not green and hard and not overripe. I also love nectarines, particularly sweet and juicy ones, other soft summer berries are always tempting, although imported strawberries from America, in spite of their lush appearance, are often disappointing as far as taste is concerned, and certainly don't taste anything like the ones I remember in my childhood. I try to buy them from counties local to me such as Surrey or Kent. I do love old fashioned cooked fruits such as rhubarb, it seems to have become all posh of late, but we always had it growing in the garden when I was young so I remember eating it a lot then. Lychees have a wonderfully fragrant taste and I remember being introduced to them a few years go and thinking wow! a bit like tasting Indian food for the first time. I agree with Eloethan's take on pineapple I hated it tinned and tasted a fresh one in my twenties for the first time and couldn't believe how lovely it was, such a different texture.

thank you for posting your replies. It was interesting to read your reasons for your likes and dislikes?

Was going to thank individuals, but not good if I inadvertently left one out

grandma2213 what is your most effective/clean way to deal with a
pomegranate?

shysal I love passion fruit too. Hate supermarkets displaying unripe ones. My mother used to send me to pick ripe ones from our vine.
They are lovely, once the skins are purple colour with deep wrinkles
Included in a pavlova.

I've OA so eat citric frits occasionally. Love grapefruit, pips out then brown sugar sprinkled over and toasted under our grill.

{smile] Why isn't there a Gnsnt eating smiley?

I'm not keen on raspberries, though they're nice in a trifle, or fresh pineapple. I only eat oranges when the Spanish navels are in season. Otherwise it's apples, blueberries and bananas.

I do not like strawberries, although I enjoy them in a salad! I like fried bananas with pancakes and brown sugar. I'll eat any fruit in season, at the moment I am enjoying plums either raw or stewed. My absolutely favourite fruit is pears. I remember being pregnant with my DD and craving a pear but there were none to be had, even on the fruit market stalls. My mother offered to open me a tin, but no, I could have cried!

I like oranges, pink grapefruit, grapes, apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, raspberries.

I especially like lychees and passion fruit. I never liked fresh pineapple until I tasted it abroad and found that it is completely different - soft - not hard and fibrous - and very juicy.

Not keen on blueberries, gooseberries or kiwi fruit.

I can't bear tinned fruit - I often used to have it as a child, along with that horrible tinned cream - yuk.

I think some of the ugliest can be the sweetest. I have only recently started enjoying fresh figs, they are delicious raw or cooked. Try 'figs in pigs', i.e. quarters wrapped in streaky bacon for a buffet. In desserts I also love passion fruit.

I love all fruit LuckyDucky . I could eat oranges all day every day and can't wait for this time of year when those huge ones come into the shops. I love cox apples (again perfect at this time of year), all kinds of berries and of course bananas. When my DGS (5) comes to mine straight from school he heads straight to the fruit bowl for a pear. They have to be slightly crunchy as he doesn't like them too soft.

I love raspberries too! I always have some open in the fridge and take some every time I open the door. We have a fruit bowl in the kitchen with satsumas, apples, bananas and grapes. DH also likes peaches but they set my teeth on edge. Quite often I will have a bowl of melon slices in the fridge for snacking on and I like physillis if they are sweet.

I love bananas - as they are or in a sandwich, but one of the nicest ways to serve them is sautéed in butter with lime juice, brown sugar and a touch of rum, then sprinkled with toasted coconut and topped with creme fraiche.
Raspberries just as they come, nothing can beat the smell of fresh raspberries, absolutely intoxicating!
There's something magical about pomegranates, but the reality is nearly always disappointing, all texture and no taste. The same goes for 'fresh' figs, unless you have them in Greece.
And grapes! I could eat my way through a large bunch of grapes with no help at all

I have strawberries on my porridge most mornings, varied occasionally with blueberries, blackberries or raspberries depending upon special offers or season!

When we were children we used to have an orange in the toe of our Christmas stocking. Dad used to get a grapefruit for breakfast and we all sometimes had half a pomegranate. Apart from an occasional apple that was all the fruit we had (except for local forays to collect wild blackberries, gooseberries, raspberries.) That's what they call living off the fat of the land! There was also a damson orchard behind a derelict farm where we would collect the fruit to eat and to make jam.

Sorry I just remembered - when Bananas returned to Britain we used to have one for tea. We loved it but it was not enough for a meal and we had to fill up on bread and butter.

Love summer fruits the most, peaches nectarines raspberries apricots. I have blueberries on my muesli every morning. With some fruits such as oranges , apples, and bananas I have to " fancy" them and eat them sometimes and then go off them for a while. Anybody else do that?

I love all fruit. I eat a lot of fruit salad of all sorts. One of my favourite is papaya mango and melon in lime juice with coconut yogurt. Pineapple is delicious with coconut yogurt.
Summer soft fruits - divine. Just plain stewed fruit and custard is acceptable

Cannot even stay in a room if anyone peels an orange

I detest oranges as they give me indigestion; but I adore raspberries - truly wonderful. The best way to serve them is all by themselves - they need nothing else.

I eat an apple every day but so far it has not kept the doctor away - I married him!