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-Wood Apple or #Bael fruit is a sweet, aromatic fruit that grows on the bael tree (#Aegle #marmelos), native to India & Southeast Asia. It's typically eaten fresh, dried, or in juice form. The fruit provides vitamins like vitamin A & vitamin C & has been found to act as an antioxidant. -It takes about 11 months to ripen on the tree & can reach the size of a large grapefruit or pomelo, & some are even larger. The shell is so hard it must be cracked with a hammer or machete. The fibrous yellow pulp is very aromatic. It has been described as tasting of marmalade & smelling of roses. The flavor is "sweet, aromatic & pleasant, although tangy & slightly astringent in some varieties". It resembles a marmalade made, in part, with citrus and, in part, with tamarind. Numerous hairy seeds are encapsulated in a slimy mucilage. -Bael fruit can be eaten fresh like other fruits. Its juice is used to make drinks & squashes, especially in the summer season because of its sweet & pleasant nature. In India, a drink called sherbert is made by adding milk & sugar to seeded bael fruit pulp. Bael fruits doesn’t split open even after getting ripened. Choose a pale-yellow, sweet-smelling fruit & try breaking the shell with a hard object. Scoop out the pulp to make this easy sherbet. Another popular drink is made by combining bael fruit pulp with tamarind. Take bael fruit, wash it & break the hard shell from all around. Once it broke, remove the pulp in a bowl. Mash the pulp till it softens & strain the mixture to remove any solid particles or impurities. You can add chilled milk, cardamom powder, jaggery, & black salt to the bael. -To make jam, pulp from mature, unripe bael fruit is mixed with citric acid & sometimes combined with guava for added sweetness. In Thailand, young shoots & leaves from the bael fruit plant are used as a seasoning. It is used in the preparation of candy, squash, toffee, & pulp powder. Bael tender leaves are used as salads. -There are several varieties of bael fruit. Smaller, hard-shelled varieties grown in Florida are used for medicinal purposes rather than fruit consumption. Larger & softer varieties with thinner rinds,... https://store.jpsdelights.com/bael https://www.instagram.com/p/CaaOsJgpYP6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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