* Scientific name: nephelium lappaceum
* Description: easily recognizable bright red fruit covered in soft red hairs, rambutan is deliciously extra sweet with white translucent flesh covering a small, inedible seed.
* Nutritional value: rich in vitamin C, minerals and carbohydrates, while the sweet flesh is said to hep beautify the skin.
* Fruiting season: May - October

* Scientific name: dimocarpus longan
* Variety: a wide range
* Description: small, green-brown, leather-skinned longans grow in large clusters on trees. Inside the flesh is smoky white with a very sweet, rich taste covering small brown seeds. They are eaten fresh as a dessert fruit.

* Nutritional value: besdies being excessively sweet, longans are full of vitamins and minerals.

* Scientific name: Passiflora spp.
* Description:Passion fruit mousse is a common dessert, and passion fruit seeds are routinely used to decorate the tops of certain cakes. Some say there that eating too many seeds makes one sleepy.
*Nutritional value: it is widely believed to lower blood pressure. The juice of passionfruits is given as a digestive stimulant and treatment for gastric cancer.

* Scientific name: achras sapota
* Description: the fruits are about kiwifruit size, thin skinned, and heavily rusted brownish grey. They exude a sticky sap if they are cut before they are fully ripe, but once they are ripe the flesh becomes tender, translucent, and very sweet, with an almost 'brown sugar' taste. The only caveat is that the end of the seeds are curved back into a small 'hook', and they have been know to become lodged in the throat. The seeds are few, obvious, and easily removed...

* Scientific name: mangifera indica
* Variety: a wide range, especially R2E2 Australian
* Description: green and sour when young, mangoes turn yellow when ripe, with succulent, golden flesh surrounding a large flat seed.
* Nutritional value: rich in vitamins, minerals and beta-carotene, mangoes improve the complexion and digestion.

* Scientific name: Ipomea batatas
* Variety: yellow, purple Japanese sweet potato
* Description:The versatile sweet potato is ideal fare for the health - conscious consumer. With the ever-growing interest in health and natural foods, the sweet potato is quickly finding its place in the family weekly diet. The sweet potato blends with herbs, spices and flavorings producing delicious dishes of all types. From processed baby foods to the main dishes, casseroles, salads...