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Miranda Radok - May 17, 2012
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While you are enjoying what you think is a plum, you may very well actually be eating a pluot – a complex hybrid of a plum and apricot. Demand for hybrid fruits, especially pluots, has skyrocketed in recent years with pluots now making up a majority of the plum market.
A simple apricot and plum cross will give you a plumcot, but pluots and apriums are the result of complex crossbreeding over several generations – which can take up to 15 years to perfect.
Pluots are mostly plum (60 percent plum and 40 percent apricot) and look more like plums than apricots. On the other hand, the inside flesh is soft and grainy, unlike the firm flesh of a plum. The aprium (70 percent apricot and 30 percent plum) has fuzzy skin and tastes like a sweeter apricot with a touch of plum.
It is said that these hybrid fruits adopt the best qualities each parent fruit. Known for their sweetness and full flavour, both the aprium and pluot actually have higher sugar content than that of their “parents”.
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