Sixty-six percent of Peru is covered by jungle or rain forest.  It produces every kind of fruit and vegetable you can imagine.  It has over 3000 varieties of potatoes and over 50 varieties of corn (choclo).   Here are just a few of the fruits that we eat everyday and they just have a better flavor and are sweeter than in the US.

Here are two of my favorite pieces of fruit that I try to eat everyday.  One is called a tuna and the other is a granadilla.  These fruits has lots of seeds but you eat them also.  The granadilla has a hard shell like an egg and inside it has a green, gelatin-like fruit. The tuna is oval shaped like an oversized egg and has little cactus spines on it.  The fruit is either a dark purple red or a lime color inside.

We love their "little bananas" here.  Can eat enough of them.

How about a cucumber melon fruit?  Has a little taste of cucumber and cantaloupe.  Not really sweet but so refreshing in the summer.

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Their "jungle pineapple" is the best ever.  Much, much smaller than the Hawaiian one, but so, so sweet.  

The tangerines, with or without seeds, are eaten by everyone in Peru.  Love em!

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My favorite are the mangoes.  Can't eat enough of them.  They are so beautiful when fully ripe.

Last, but not least, is the apple.  Peru has so many different types.  They have an Israeli apple that we like and this one which is called the "market apple".  A cross between a gala, delicious and a fuji apple.