Pomelo Pride in Davao City

 

From Davao Pomelo fruit looks like a Melon of some kind. The skin is surprisingly soft, and relatively easy to peel. Inside The Philippines version of the Pomelo looks like a giant pink grapefruit just like a Melon.
Only it’s not bitter at all. Pomelo tastes like a sweet, mild grapefruit (which is itself a hybrid of the pomelo and the orange), though the typical pomelo is much larger in size than the grapefruit. It has very little, or none, of the common grapefruit's bitterness, but the enveloping membranous material around the segments is bitter, considered inedible, and thus usually is discarded.Actually the taste is certainly a part of the citrus family, but the sweet kind. Pomelo fruit segments are large, and break easily. But unlike its cousins the Pomelo segments stay intact.


Within each segment are strong pulpy cells that contain the sweet citrus like flesh. It makes The Filipino Pomelo is a very easy fruit to eat. Although a little large for just one person.
Filipinos eat the Pomelo fruit with salt. But without salt it tastes just great. A really good fruit to take on hikes or treks due to it’s high level of water, and ability to travel well.