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  • From: Louis Pittman <lpittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] paw paw taste
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:46:09 -0600

Yep. I can eat one, and that's enough to do me for a year or more.

Grafted varieties definitely taste better than local natives, but one is
still enough for me.
I have pulp frozen back from 3 years or more, but rarely do anything with
it...guess I need to whip up a batch of 'pawpaw honey' to pass out as
holiday treats to friends & neighbors.

Lucky

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 7:25 AM Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it takes a certain amount of eating pawpaws to lose your taste for
> them. I’ve noticed this in other once-pawpaw-enthusiasts also.
>
> Lee
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> > On Nov 24, 2020, at 5:47 AM, Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have only tasted two named varieties Mango and Shenandoah. They were
> both delicious, sweet, fruity, bright without the taste/smell of overripe
> banana (tang) that the wild fruits contain.
> >
> > There was a 6 year gap between tasting them so I cannot compare their
> tastes directly. I do remember the mango surprised me with its
> deliciousness.
> >
> > In my experience, the selected varieties are worth the effort. That is
> why I keep trying to buy grafted trees and to graft my sprouts.
> >
> > Elizabeth
> >
> > On 11/24/2020 5:41 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
> >> I believe that some people can taste the slight toxic tang of paw paws
> and
> >> some can't. Those that can't think they are absolutely delicious and
> those
> >> that can are never big fans. Unfortunately, like Lee, I fall in the
> latter
> >> group.
> >>
> >> I've never tasted a Peterson variety, though.
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