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a tiny cherry lookalike packing more vitamin C than oranges could dream of
means A small, bright-red tropical fruit resembling a cherry, prized for its exceptionally high vitamin C content.
from From American Spanish 'acerola,' which traces back through Spanish to the Arabic 'az-zu'rūr,' meaning the fruit of the hawthorn or medlar — a word Moorish Spain carried with it. The name later traveled across the Atlantic and attached itself to a different, New World plant (the West Indian cherry, Malpighia), so the fruit you eat today wears a name that once belonged to an Old World shrub entirely.
- vitamin c bomb
- Up to 30 times more vitamin C than oranges
- not a cherry
- Botanically a malpighia, unrelated to true cherries
- fast spoiler
- Loses nutrients within days of picking
- three seeds
- Each fruit hides three tiny winged stones
- tropical native
- Thrives across the Caribbean and South America
acerola cherry — malpighia emarginata fruit from central and south america with 1,500-4,500 mg vitamin c per 100g
florida acerola — commercial cultivation in southern florida since 1950s for juice and supplement production
brazilian acerola — major crop in northeastern brazil, particularly bahia state, world's leading producer