List your top 5 favorite fruits.

“Good thoughts bear good fruit.”
(Tim Sanders)

Whenever I’ve visited the Caribbean region on vacation, I’ve enjoyed the freedom to sample the profusion of tropical fruits growing in these exotic lands. Some of my most favorite fruits like coconuts, bananas and mangos can be easily enjoyed in this region as a tasty and nutritious delicacy as part of a snack or meal. While others with unfamiliar names and/or unusual shapes when I’m “out and about” often capture my strong sensory attention as well. So I must add to my favorite fruit list such locally grown delicacies relatively unknown to me such as lychees, starfruit, and ackees.

I might add that I’m curious to learn about such lesser known tropical fruits on those occasions when I strike up a conversation with a tour guide host or employee at a local store. For, I’m likely to hear about then the preventative health benefits provided from such unique tropical fruits that I notice hanging from surrounding trees.  

  But as a word of caution, I’m aware as well that it’s generally considered unwise to eat raw or uncooked food bought on or off the streets during my visits to these islands. So when hesitancy strikes me about cleanliness concerns for any tasty tropical fruit which stimulates my palate, I find it’s better to be safe than sorry and refrain from buying it.