500g - Fresh Produce
Product Code: FR23
Price: £6.75
Note: The cut off date for placing your fresh products order will be Wednesday, with delivery scheduled for the following Wednesday. This is because all our fresh food in flown in directly from Thailand on a weekly basis to ensure you get the freshest possible products.
Salak (Snakefruit) (500g)
Thai Name: Ra Kam / ระกำ
Salak is a species of palm tree with very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6 m long; each leaf has a 2 m long spiny petiole and numerous leaflets.
The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the palm, and are also known as snake fruit due to the reddish-brown scaly skin. They are about the size and shape of a ripe fig, usually round with a distinct tip, with an edible pulp; to peel, pinch the tip of the fruit and pull away. The fruit inside consists of three lobes, each lobe containing a large inedible seed. The lobes look and have the consistency of peeled garlic cloves.
The taste is usually sweet and acidic, but its apple-like texture can vary from very dry and crumbly to moist and crunchy.
Scientific Name: Salacca edulis.
Fresh produce of Thailand.
