They’re small, green and relatively unobtrusive, but few fruits have the devoted, nostalgia-filled following of the feijoa. Native to South America, the humble feijoa has made its way from ...

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Your ultimate guide to indulging in one of our favourite autumn fruits, the feijoa. The season is short and when it's here, it's a feijoa frenzy of baking, preserving, freezing and cooking.

Feijoa can be eaten raw in fruit salads or as part of a fruit plate. They can also be cooked with other fruit such as apples.

Since then horticulturalists have developed new feijoa varieties such as the Apollo and Gemini (for their rocket-shaped fruit) and the Kakapo and Pounamu (for their dark green colouring).