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Nature's Candy

Ripe peanut butter fruit growing in the summer.

Peanut Butter Fruit

Its pulp tastes just like the creamy spread.

Butternut Squash Sweets

Near the exit of an old souk, a small shop has been making gourd-based goodies for generations.

Finger Lime

Slice one open for some citrus caviar.

Cherimoya

Growing this sweet, tropical fruit sometimes requires careful hand-pollination with a paint brush.

Licorice root for sale at a Spanish market.

Licorice Root

The washed and dried root of the licorice plant was once a popular natural “candy.”

Cotton Candy Grapes

A crossbred table grape variety that tastes an awful lot like spun sugar.

Canistel

The sweet and creamy “eggfruit” makes a great nog.

Lúcuma

This butterscotch-flavored fruit has a way with desserts.

Antigua Black Pineapple

It's not actually dark, but it is the world's sweetest.

T'tu Lavash

Armenians were making these sweet sheets of dried fruit centuries before the Fruit Roll-Up.

A honeypot ant in Arizona.

Honeypot Ants

These insects swell with sweet, golden nectar.

Chocolate Daisy

This wildflower releases a cocoa fragrance each morning.

A collection of berries.

Hackberry

The little-known fruit tastes like peanut M&Ms.

The coastal wattle and its seeds.

Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

Sugarloaf Pineapple

Devour this rare variety without fear of post-pineapple mouth irritation.

Egg of the Sun mangoes (price in yen).

Egg of the Sun Mango

How can a fruit be worth $2,000?

The inside of hala fruits contain vibrant colors and sweet nectar.

6 Fruits With Surprising Flavors

Why settle for a banana when you could be tasting lemon meringue pie?

The Gastro Obscura Team February 1, 2018

A handful of olosapo.

Olosapo

In Central America, custard grows on trees.