You don’t really need to read this post, just, if you find yourself in Colombia for breakfast, eat these. Eat as many of them as you can.
OK, let’s back up. I just spent 10 days in and around Medellín, Colombia. I ate as many varieties of tropical fruit as I could get my hands on, naturally, as a public service to you so I could tell you all about them.
This is a granadilla. It’s a sweet variety of passionfruit with a hard, orange-spotted shell. They look like… space maracas? Dinosaur eggs? Very cool, is what I’m saying. And they taste amazing too.
Most passionfruits (more on them later) are a little sweet and a lot sour. Granadillas are not sour at all. Apparently in Colombia they’re a popular fruit for kids’ lunch boxes, because they’re sweet, easy to like, and easy to crack open with your fingers (no utensils needed) and eat with minimal mess.
The edible part of the granadilla includes the black seeds, which are crunchy, and the clear juicy pulp surrounding the seeds. A granadilla tastes like a passionfruit with most of the sourness removed. The outer orange shell and the foamy white layer lining the shell are not edible (that I know of).
It has cool little white tubules connecting each individual seed to the inside wall of the fruit!
And the breakfast part was a bit misleading. They are also good for lunch, dinner, elevensies, tea, the meal indicating recovery from paragliding-induced motion sickness, and any time at all, really.
Just cut the mold off 
The second picture looks like braaaaaaaaaaains. (Specifically, one of those skull/brain anatomical models that we would use in science class.)
They are absolutely like eating brains.
Tastiest brains I’ve ever eaten!*
*I have not actually eaten any brains.
If you’re ever in the South, the native passion fruit, also called maypops, are delicious. They are green when ripe and have a mild, vanilla taste. Yum!
Ooh, next time I’m in the South I’ll definitely check those out! Are you planning to grow any?
I hope to grow them, one day, but not soon.They are only for a short time in the spring (hence “maypop”) and are hard to find. But worth it.
Peercft answer! That really gets to the heart of it!
Columbia and Venezuela are pretty close together. I will have to look for these when I’m down there!
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