Tropical

Flavour reflects its texture - creamy and smooth with a nutty and sweet finish. We offer a range of avocado sizes. We most often carry a larger size Avocado such as size 12, 14 or 16.

We offer a number of different types of bananas such as yellow, green, mini, and red mini 

Banana Blossoms, also known as a “banana heart”, is a fleshy, purple-skinned flower, shaped like a tear, which grows at the end of a banana fruit cluster.

Large, flat green leaf.

Breadfruit is a large football-sized fruit. It has prickly, yellow-green skin and a round to oblong shape. Cooked Breadfruit has a mild potato-like flavour, and as its name implies, the scent is reminiscent of freshly baked bread. 

Golden yellow, and the non-stem end separates and extends into elongated, finger-like segments. Underneath the rind, the flesh is generally void of juice, seeds, and pulp and only contains a thick and spongy, white pith that bears a sweet flavour. Buddha’s Hand citron has a bitter-sweet, bright and floral flavour.

Green coconuts have a smooth, green, and very hard outer shell. Fresh coconut water is drunk straight from the coconut or can be used in both cooked and raw recipes.

The young coconut is harvested directly from the tree before it has time to age and drop like the more mature white and brown husked coconuts. Inside is a refreshing juice and a soft jelly-like meat.

Vibrant fuscia skin conceals creamy white flesh dotted with small black seeds. Mild flavour and juicy.

Oblong shape and are slightly smaller in size than the pink varieties. Juicy texture and tropical flavour much sweeter than that of Pink Pitaya.

Durian fruit is notorious for its distinguishable, malodorous aroma, which has been compared to that of Limburger cheese, rotting onions, and even gasoline. 

Depending on the time of year we carry a number of different figs including Black Mission Figs, Green Figs, Tiger Figs and White Figs.

Its skin is coarse, knobby, cream coloured, earth-stained and scarred, the scars indicating the age of the root. It often has various thin spindly branching and fibrous extensions evolving from its base.

Bronze toned, smooth, hairless paper-thin skin. Its flavours are sweet and tropical with notes of pineapple and mango.

The rind is smooth, firm, and thick, initially green when young, darkening to an orange-yellow hue with maturity. Underneath the outer shell, there is a layer of white, sticky, and spongy pith, encasing a translucent pulp with many small, flat black seeds.

The flesh is unique to many fruits, its texture a combination of a firm banana with the succulence of an apple. Tiny edible seeds pattern the flesh's core.

The jackfruit is a multiple fruit composed of hundreds to thousands of individual flowers, and the fleshy petals of the unripe fruit are eaten.

Emerald green firm pulp is dotted with a large amount of nearly black tiny edible seeds.

Unlike citruses, the entire fruit is edible, although the few seeds buried in the flesh are recommended to be removed.

Peel is semi-thick, porous and laden with essential oils. The flesh is translucent yellow and juicy when ripe. Its juice is highly acidic and tart. Our most commonly inventoried size is the 115. However smaller or larger Lemons are also available. 

Highly fragrant; the rinds are full of volatile oils. Their pulp is low in acid, aromatic, floral and sweet. Meyer lemons are only moderately seedy.

The Lemonquat is a hybrid between a Meyer Lemon and a Kumquat.

Green, thin, and porous peel, which, when zested releases floral aromatics. Flesh is a pale green colour, fragrant, juicy and tart with a sour bite. We typically carry a size 42 Lime.

38 pound case. Most often sold with either 150, 175, 200 or 230 pieces to a case.

Finger limes are known as the caviar of citrus. Their aromatic smooth but pebbled skin appears in a triad of colours.

Galamansi Limes also known as Calamondin, Philippine Lime, or Philippine Lemon.

The segmented, seed-bearing flesh contains a sweet-tart juice, a trademark that sets it apart from common limes.

Abundant sweet citrus smell. Mature darker green leaves are preferred for use over the younger, less aromatic leaves.

Thin rough-to-prickly brown easy to remove shell. Inside is a large smooth jet-black seed with a white ovoid characteristic mark. Having a flesh reminiscent of a peeled grape, the flavour is wonderfully sweet and often described as a mysterious tasting blend of musk, spruce and gardenia.

Roughly the size of a walnut, and their leathery skin is covered with tiny spikes. The pearly-white pulp is covered in juice and houses a dark-brown seed at its centre, which can vary in size from 1/2 inch to 1 inch in length, depending on the variety. The firm yet gelatinous pulp is chewy and juicy with a sweet, fruity flavour.

Red, yellow, or green on the outside, are smooth-skinned, and have yellow to bright orange flesh and a sweet, sometimes tart flavour.

Smaller in size and less fibrous than a traditional mango, the skin of the Ataulfo Mango is tough and the flesh is soft, sweet and juicy.

Small, round, and flat in shape. Baby Mangoes are crisp, acidic, and tangy with nuances of sweet, tropical flavours.

Green Mangoes have green skin and a crisp sour taste as they are not fully ripe.

It has a thick, smooth, leathery, burgundy-colored shell with about four to eight flat and woody lobes. Encased in the thick skin are an average of five or six triangular floral-scented segments of white, juicy, soft flesh, which is either seedless or contains just a few flat seeds.  Mangosteens offer a sweet-tart tropical flavour with notes of lychee, peach, strawberry, pineapple, and caramel or butter.

Glossy brown skin is tender and supple and encases dark amber interior. Slightly chewy and succulent, the meaty pulp surrounds an elongated pit.

Greenish-yellow skin. Flesh is orange when ripe. Contains numerous round, shiny, inedible black seeds in its centre cavity.

It is semi-firm and succulent, easily pierced when ripe. The flesh's flavour is lean and subtly sweet. Its seeds are tart and peppery.

The firm skin is yellow. The flesh is orange and just like the other Papayas, it contains small black seeds in the middle.

The juicy interior is filled with numerous seeds with a tropical sweet tart flavour with nuances of pineapple, papaya, mango, citrus and guava.

Why do we have a local fruit listed in the tropical section? Good question. This fruit that grows — not commonly, mind you — along the rivers and in the forests of some parts of southern Ontario that tastes like a tropical fruit. Some say it tastes like a mango, others a papaya, or perhaps a banana.

Tropical fruit covered in a hexagonal patterned, rough and waxy rind. Rind is green to yellow in colour and covered in spiked protuberances.

Honeyglow® Pineapple takes its name from being a high shell colour fruit, with honey gold colour outside and inside, thanks to the prolonged maturation on the plant. It is later on carefully selected and handpicked at the Del Monte plantations in Costa Rica. The production of Honeyglow® Pineapples is limited, making this product unique and exclusive.

In comparison to the typical golden pineapple, Pink Glow Pineapples are sweeter and less acidic with a “cotton candy” finish. 

Squat and rounded shape. Texture varies from crisp and succulent when young, to a tender and gelatinous texture as they mature.

Rounded, slightly elongated and acorn-shaped, coming to a blunted point at their non-stem end. When fully ripe the fruits are a beautiful deep orange.

Yellow-orange, thin-skinned spherical fruits with slightly flattened ends. Also known as the Vanilla Kaki Persimmon.

Available in yellow(ripe), green (unripe) or semi-ripe.

Each seed is enclosed in a clear, bright red pulp that offers a sweet-tart taste with notes of cranberry, rhubarb, red currant and concord grape.

There are many different varieties of Rambutan with unique appearances, ranging in colour from red, orange, yellow to a blend of these hues. Rambutans are aromatic and have a sweet, fruity flavour with mild acidity, containing subtle notes of strawberries and grapes.

Edible advantages over other Persimmons. It's nearly seedless, has no core, void of any bitterness and can be eaten as a whole fruit, even when unripe

Aroma similar to pineapple, the flavour of the fruit has been described as a combination of strawberries and apple with sour citrus flavour notes, contrasting with an underlying thick creamy texture reminiscent of banana.

Crunchy, somewhat transparent skin and the texture of the flesh is succulent, similar to a pear.

Stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes.

Petite and teardrop shaped with a glossy smooth cranberry hued skin and succulent flesh containing small soft edible seeds.

Yuzu is highly aromatic, and the rind is rich in essential oils that are released when the fruit’s surface is scratched or cut. The juice and zest have a unique, acidic blend of sour, sweet, and floral flavours mixed with notes of lime, grapefruit, mandarin.