Cerrado Fruits Attractive to Homo Sapiens

"From a babassu, everything can be used". From the mesocarp, the babassu pulp has several nutritional properties - rich in starch, carbohydrates, fiber, and mineral salts - several dishes are prepared.

Its fruits are sweet, reminding a little of the taste of prunes. This species occurs close to water courses and is one of 51 species of murici that occur in the Cerrado biome.

Its fruit is up to 20 centimeters open when ripe, showing the red interior and blue seeds that if roasted, are better, bigger, and more nutritious than peanuts.

One of the darlings of the Cerrado, the little cashew or cajuí is smaller than the commercial cashew and has a more intense flavor. It ripens early in the spring, between September and October, and also serves as food for animals such as the maned wolf and the wild dog.

The fruit is very tasty, delicious in sweets, juices, and ice cream. Cattle also love its fruit, being indicated for crossbreeding in pastures.

Ripe or spent fruits, if eaten in quantity, strongly loosen the bowels, hence the name. Its white flower is of rare beauty and is suitable for gardens and urban woodland.

An important nutritional supplement rich in minerals and vitamins, especially vitamins A, C and B2 and rich in carotenoids, pequi is much appreciated in the regions where it occurs, and is widely used in regional cuisine, in dishes such as rice, chicken and beans cooked with pequi.

Yum, your fruit tastes sweet. Some mammals disperse its seeds; wasps, flies, and mosquitoes pollinate its flowers. Used for food and medicine, it is beautiful in gardens.

Also known as camburí, licurizinho or licuri-rasteiro-do-campo, this small palm tree occurs in savanna and rural formations of the Cerrado. Its coconuts are tasty and have a strong flavor, being also appreciated by the maned wolf.

Have you ever eaten Mutamba? It's sweet.

Known as ox fruit, it is also eaten by cattle and wild animals. They have a delicate and mild flavor and are only consumed wild because they contain little pulp.

Have you ever had gabiroba juice or ice cream? Delicious!!!

Also known as puçá, these fruits have a gelatinous and sweetened pulp, being highly appreciated by local communities in the regions where they occur.

Relative to the pine cone and araticum, its fruits have a sweet and strong flavor, also highly appreciated by the wild fauna of the Cerrado.

This species is one of the sweetest in the Cerrado!

The fruiting peak of these fruits coincides with the Easter season, hence its popular name in Portuguese which translates to "blood of Christ".

The same size and shape of a pear, its fruits are very acidic, being indicated for the preparation of juices and sweets.

From the same family as the blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), this species occurs close to water courses and has practically unexplored food potential in the Cerrado.