Fruitful Flavors of Brazil
Yum, yum. The fruits abound here in Brazil. I've been having soooo many different kinds of fruits it would make your head swim. I've grown very fond of passion fruit this trip. I have had many glasses of fresh passion fruit juice. Today I even had some mousse or flan that was passion fruit flavored. Wow!
We went to this store today called Frutos do Cerado. All they sell is fruit ice cream and popsicles of the fruits from Brazil. I just had a popsicle of something called Araca. But my favorite is pequi. The whole world should taste pequi. Too bad it's pretty much only found in this area of Brazil. Renee is the only one of my friends who has actually tried it. I found some info on the web about pequi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryocar_brasiliense
http://www.caldas.com.br/fotos/galfrut1.htm
Pictures: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-30,GGLG:en&q=pequi&sa=N&tab=wi
Apparently, someone has put both passion fruit and pequi oil in hair care products:
http://www.ellinlavar.com/products/ingredients.jsp#pequioil
And Clarins is using it in their products: Pequi is a perennial tree that only grows in the Amazonian part of Brazil. The natives use its wood, very resistant to deformation, as a building material and consume its fruit which is composed of approximately 60% oil with remarkable energising properties. Its high levels of oleic fatty acids make it highly nutritious and protective.
We went to this store today called Frutos do Cerado. All they sell is fruit ice cream and popsicles of the fruits from Brazil. I just had a popsicle of something called Araca. But my favorite is pequi. The whole world should taste pequi. Too bad it's pretty much only found in this area of Brazil. Renee is the only one of my friends who has actually tried it. I found some info on the web about pequi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryocar_brasiliense
http://www.caldas.com.br/fotos/galfrut1.htm
Pictures: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-30,GGLG:en&q=pequi&sa=N&tab=wi
Apparently, someone has put both passion fruit and pequi oil in hair care products:
http://www.ellinlavar.com/products/ingredients.jsp#pequioil
And Clarins is using it in their products: Pequi is a perennial tree that only grows in the Amazonian part of Brazil. The natives use its wood, very resistant to deformation, as a building material and consume its fruit which is composed of approximately 60% oil with remarkable energising properties. Its high levels of oleic fatty acids make it highly nutritious and protective.
Comments
OK---so you go to Brazil and start eating mouse!??! Should that be mousse?
All this talk about food is making me hungry. Maybe I'll visit a Chinese Restaurant and get some mouse too! Just kidding ... you know that is not my kind of eating. :)
Love ya - Heidi
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