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Babaco is a five-sided fruit which looks like a pawpaw. The skin is thin, waxy, yellow and can be eaten. The centre of the babaco is white but the flesh around it is yellow.

Babaco is first grown in Ecuador and it's part of the pawpaw family. Now it can be found in Australia and New Zealand where it is promoting this fruit as 'a fruit that has a champagne taste'.

Always choose your fruit with a shiny and yellow colour as it tells you that their are ripe and ready to eat. Ripe babacos can be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days and the raw babacos can be kept in room temperature for a few days until their are ripe in colour.

Babacos can be prepared in sliced in rings or lengthways, and after doing that you can diced them into cubes. Babacos can be used in fruit salad, or squeezed them into a refreshing juice, served as a dessert with cream. You can also make a delicious sauces, chutneys or relishes with this fruit. One amazing thing you can do with this fruit is that you can use it as a tenderiser on any of your tough meat.

Babacos only major nutrients are the vitamin C and it's low on kilojoules. But this fruit carries a valuable enzymes that will help people digest fats and

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Last modified: July 19, 2003