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New Fruit: The Apple-Pear

7/8/2010

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Apple-pears
Apple-pears
My fruit guy on the corner amazed me once again by selling me an "apple-pear" (aka pyrus pyrifolia), a pear that looks half-apple and half-pear. If you remember correctly, another piece of interesting fruit he offered me was the pluot, and I was instantly in love. This time around, I'm giving the apple-pear one and a half thumbs up. It was fairly heavy for an apple-shaped fruit, but had the shape of an apple and the skin of a pear. The inside was more pear than apple, as it wasn't too crunchy but more sugary like a pear. I felt weird about biting into it, so I cut it up. When I bit into an apple, I love to hear that loud crunch, but this fruit wasn't like that.

Since I'm more of an apple guy than a pear guy, I can't say I'd become a habitual eater of the apple-pear, but for a nice change up, it's definitely a refreshing treat.
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Shana
7/8/2010 12:23:48 am

Is this really found in nature? Seems kind of mad-scientist.

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7/8/2010 12:31:57 am

I believe it's a mad-scientist type fruit, though most fruit is cross-bred and cultivated in some way to become juicier and bigger and better.

Compare fruit to dogs: most dog breeds were created by man by taking qualities of certain dogs and breeding them together. The bulldog is a perfect example: we've bred them to the point where they can't even reproduce on their own!

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