Tamarillo
A small egg-shaped tropical fruit also called tree tomato, with tangy red-orange flesh that bridges fruit and vegetable in cooking.
5 fruits starting with the letter T — each with origin, classification, and notes.
If you've been searching for fruits that start with T, you'll find 5 detailed fruits below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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A small egg-shaped tropical fruit also called tree tomato, with tangy red-orange flesh that bridges fruit and vegetable in cooking.
A sticky brown pod-fruit with intensely tart-sweet pulp — fundamental to Indian, Southeast Asian, Mexican, and Caribbean cuisines, providing sour acidity in pad thai, chutneys, and chamoy.
A tangerine-pomelo hybrid with a distinctive nipple-like bump at the stem end — juicy, sweet-tart, easy to peel, and the genetic ancestor of several modern grocery citrus varieties.
A small, sweet, easy-to-peel citrus fruit, a member of the mandarin orange family that gives most modern citrus hybrids their sweetness.
A 1970s Scottish blackberry-raspberry hybrid named for the river Tay — long sweet-tart wine-red fruit with intense flavor, popular in home gardens but virtually absent from supermarkets.
That's our current list of fruits starting with the letter T. We add new entries every week — if you have a favorite fruit starting with T that isn't on this page, let us know and we'll write it up.
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