What fruit is the golden fruit? Do the small golden-yellow fruits taste sweet?

The golden fruit has yellow skin, so it is called the golden fruit. It is a wild citrus fruit; its taste is similar to pineapple sugar apple (Annona squamosa), but it is juicier and sweeter.

The golden fruit is native to the Philippines and Hawaii, and it feels very sticky to the touch, so it is not popular with the public. In the years since it was introduced to Taiwan, China, it has been difficult to promote because of problems such as its small fruit size and the tendency of the flesh to brown in summer. Gong Taiwen and his younger brother Gong Tai'an were interested in emerging fruit trees, and year after year they kept finding seeds from variant plants for selection and breeding, and finally succeeded in breeding 2 new varieties: the large-fruit variety and the four-season variety. A single large-fruit variety fruit can weigh up to 2 Taiwan jin, almost 2 to 3 times the size of an ordinary fruit, and 1 fruit can sell for 400 yuan.

The main production season of the large-fruit variety is from June to August. A single fruit can weigh up to 2 Taiwan jin and sell for up to 400 yuan, making it the first choice for gift-box packaging; each fruit of the four-season variety is about 400 to 500 grams, and it can bear fruit all year round. The fruit quality is good, and the sweetness can reach 18 degrees; the winter fruit is especially delicious.

Most people have never seen the golden fruit, but after eating these two new varieties, they all exclaimed that it was delicious and praised it again and again. Gong Tai'an said that the output of the golden fruit is not large, and the small amount currently on the market has long been ordered out; you have to wait until the peak season to get any. Would you like to taste it?