SALAK FRUITE

Salak also known as snake fruit due to the reddish-brown flaking skin. Salak fruit is a type of palm tree family native to Indonesia, and also in Malaysia. Skin is thin and strong, and easily peeled out. It has a sweet taste as sour pineapple. Inside a Salak Fruit consists of light-tan solid, dry and crunchy lobes. Largest lobes are containing a large inedible seeds. The Salak is a species of palm tree family and native to Indonesia and Malaysia. It is an extremely short-stemmed palm; with big leaves up to 6m long each leaf has a 2m long petiole style with back up to 15cm long, and numerous leaflets. The fruit always grow in bunches at the base of the palm, and are also known as snake fruit due to the skin appears like reddish-brown scaly. They are about the size and shape of a ripe fig, with a separate tip. The soft tissue is edible. The fruit can be also peeled by pinching the tip which should cause the skin to marsh. The fruit inside consists of three lobes, each have containing a large inedible seed. The lobes resemble, and have the consistency of, large peeled garlic cloves. The taste is usually sweet and acid, but its apple-like texture can be varying from very dry and crumbly to moist and crunchy.

Taste-Salak have always soft yellow color and has a sweet taste and fine as sour pineapple but it is crisp and crunchy. Salak is not a juicy which makes them especially convenient to rind and eats. Sweet taste, and are usually acidic, such as apples, but the feel can be vary from very dry and flaky to moist and crunchy. New innovations are having a new clone, which salak pondoh is sweeter and allows the results higher.