Philippine Fruits

The Philippines is known for its wide variety of tropical fruits. It is known for dried mangoes, coconut jelly, and other fruit made products. Here is a typical fruit stand you will find located at the sidewalk of the road. The mangoes are specially sweet these days, it is said that only mangoes in Cebu and other stony islands produce the sweetest mangoes. Buy it fresh here, around 2 dollars for a kilo of mango or less on cheaper days. The pineapples thesedays are also very sweet specially if they are the ones from Cagayan or Davao city, don't eat too much though because pineapples are acidic. Aside from the major show stoppers there are also fruits like banana, coconut, avocado, Fuji apples, oranges, orambutan, and a lot of other native fruits. Most tourist guides can tell you where to buy them. They offer to stop for a few minutes on roadsides to give you time to choose some fruits. So be sure to try them out if you happen to visit the philippines, these fruits are good for you and good for a midnight snack. But if you want some dried mangoes or other dried fruits to take them home with you be sure to ask your tourguide where to buy them.