Fruit, fruit and more Colombian fruit!
On our rides, we often stop at a traditional fruit market to taste some of Colombia’s great variety of sweet and tart tropical tastes. The Mercado de Egipto is a neighborhood market high above the city, Las Nieves a market just off of Seventh Ave., and Paloquemao is the city’s second biggest fruit market, with table after table of colorful fruit, as well as fish, meats and lots of other stuff.
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- Mame
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- Melocoton
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- Fresas / Strawberries
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- Agras
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- Agras
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- Ñame
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- Guanabana
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- Igos (Prickly pear)
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- Calabazo
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- chirimoya
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- chirimoya
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- Mangostinos; expensive, but tasty
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- Tasting sapote and curua in the Egipto neighborhood market.
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- This is a great maracuya!
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- How much is this guama? The seeds are a popular street snack.
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- Feijoa
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- Curua is too tart for me!
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- Zapote is sweet and fibery.
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- Keith from New Zealand loves Guanabana.
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- Granadillas, melons, patillas, papayas. guanabanas….
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- Zapote – sweeter than it is pretty.
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- Guanabana, green outside, white inside, rich and milky – often used to make juice.
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- Pitalla. a sweet favorite.
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- Papaya and Sandilla.
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- Carambolo.
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- Anon. Not so pretty, but tasty.
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- Maracuya, or Colombian passion fruit. What out, they’re tart!
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- Wow, a tropical paradise!
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- Slicing into tropical tastes!
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- Cutting into some fruit in the Mercado de Egipto
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- Guanabana – green and white and rich and milky, often used for juice.
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- Pitalla, a sweet favorite.
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- Fruit all over in Palo Quemao!
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- Lots of fruit!
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- Sandilla and papaya
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- Carambolo, or passion fruit. Slice it up in a salad!
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- Anon – not pretty, but tasty
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- Maracuya, or passion fruit – the Colombian variety
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- Taking a slice of the tropics
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- Trying out some fruits in the Mercado de Egipto
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