Packed full of vitamins, feijoas are incredibly versatile and can be used in baking, desserts, preserves, salsas as well as savoury cooking. Ever since their introduction to NZ in the 1920s, horticulturalists have developed new feijoa varieties and they are, quite honestly, one of the easiest fruit to grow! When the fruit is at its most flavourful, it drops from the tree.
Unripe feijoas can be stored for two or three days in a fruit bowl to fully ripen. Ripe feijoas should be stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator to best retain their fragrant flavour if they last that long. Once cut, the fruit will turn brown through oxidisation – use lemon juice to stop this from happening. They can also be frozen very successfully.
We have lots of top grade trees in store, plant one or a whole hedge!