Suggies At Home

I love this fruit! Whenever I feel the need to cool off on a hot day, I’ll scout for a fruit stall for the chilled cut fruits and I will always, ALWAYS get jambu air, nicely chilled and sprinkled with some asam powder. So lovely and yummy.

This fruit is also good for our gliders too. In asian countries, it is known as jambu air. There are many species of jambu air, so I’m not really sure what are their names. They come in various shades of pink, red and some green or white. And also in different sizes. The best Jambu that I like would be Jambu air madu, really sweet like sugar. Even my gliders go crazy for it but then this kind is terribly expensive.

According to a few sugar glider websites, the calcium to phosphorus ratio is also good, a 3.6:1. Now isn’t that a great fruit to have? But take in mind, even though the calcium ratio is good, we should always feed each fruit variety in moderation, just like papaya is high in calcium. The jambu air is also know as the rose apple, cherry apple, water apple, jambos, malay apple. I guess rose, water and apple came up because some people say it has a rose-kind of taste, and it is juicy and crunchy just like an apple. But then some varieties may not have a sweet taste. I have eaten some that are quite bland, almost similar to a potato flavour. The fruit does have seeds, some are tiny, like in my photo, the little dark coloured dot and some would have a bigger cavity with more seeds. It’s wise to take these out. I know some can even be seedless.

Anyway, my gliders love these and my uncle has a tree that is chemical free. I went to harvest what I can and this is what I got!

A huge basket of jambu air. The white ones are from a different tree from my uncle’s neighbour. But all the red ones are from 1 tree. My gliders had a jambu night! LOL