North American Pawpaw – Producers, Consumers and Future Market
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Pawpaw (Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal) is the largest edible tree fruit native to the United States. Though consumption of pawpaws is not widespread in the modern-day US, pawpaws have been consumed by Native Americans for millennia. Pawpaw fruits have a very sweet tropical flavor and tastes as a mixture of banana, mango, and pineapple (Brannan et al. 2012). The fruit is nutritious and it supplies protein, numerous minerals, and vitamin C (Kobayashi et al. 2008). Pawpaws can be consumed raw or be processed into pulp and used to make food products such as beer, ice cream, yogurt, beverages, and baked goods.
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- Written by Zhen Cai, University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA), Assistant Research Professor; Michael Gold, UMCA Associate Director; Kelsi Stubblefield, UMCA Graduate Student
- Parent Category: 2021 Volume 27
- Category: Volume 27 No. 3 Fall 2021
