Persimmons

We ate two of these tonight - delicious!

This golden orange coloured fruit is a good source of vitamin C and beta carotene, fat free and high in fibre. In fact, a sweet persimmon contains almost twice the amount of dietary fibre in an everyday apple and has higher levels of many minerals and antioxidants.

Original persimmons have been cultivated in Australia for almost 150 years but the sweet variety was only introduced in the late 1970s. Whilst the market here is still young, these oriental charms have been grown for thousands of years, considered native to China, Japan, Korea, Burma and the Himalayas.