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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Jujube fresh eating, preservation and marketing
  • Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 22:11:50 -0400

I do not enough fruit to market. The dried fruit tastes remarkably like dates (to my palate), but the fresh fruit is interesting. When some green is present, I taste a mild, sweet almost apple flavor. When mahogany brown, but while still plump, caramel notes with intense sweetness are present. The flavor varies by year somewhat, and although the fruit is billed as drought resistant, the texture is less crisp and juicy if the trees do not get enough water.

My favorite uses for the fruit include fresh eating, and especially, stewing- no sugar needed to my taste. The fruit gets a delicate flavor with a pale pink juice and a light floral aroma.

Richard, do you dry them whole? I process mine to remove the seeds and end up with small jujube chips, pretty labor intensive.

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC

On 10/7/2015 8:18 PM, Richard Moyer wrote:
We dry ours and they last forever. While living and shopping in Seoul,
Korea, we never saw them fresh, but always dried. Some market stands had
ONLY jujubes, of various sizes and shapes, priced accordingly. Hundreds of
lbs, all dried.

I understand the Vietnamese and Indians prefer them in the crispy, less
ripe stage, as referred to in this articles. Indians staying with us have
picked out the less ripe ones, not eating the riper (shriveled ones).

Long story short, we sell most of ours dried. They keep forever that way,
so we're not scrambling for buyers.

Richard Moyer
SW VA, where all our jujubes survived -15F last winter.

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Today's Topics:

1. Jujube: Texas producers learn to grow, how to eat
little-known fruit (Brungardt, Sam (MPCA))


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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 21:38:23 +0000
From: "Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)" <sam.brungardt@state.mn.us>
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Subject: [nafex] Jujube: Texas producers learn to grow, how to eat
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