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    THE OTHER KIWI FRUIT

    Feb 16, 2022 4 minutes
    Words Jennifer Stackhouse

    Tamarillo is one of those fruits that divides the population, and not simply in two — lovers or haters of the sharp taste. There’s also a third group and in Australia it may be the largest: those who’ve never heard of tamarillo or tree tomato, let alone tasted it.

    Tamarillo is much grown and widely eaten across The Ditch in New Zealand and it was there that the name originated in the 1960s as a promotional label developed by the New Zealand Tree Tomato Promotions Council to help market the fruit. Most of the world just calls it

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