alt Hacker NewsI can't say definitively about the taste because I've only had Pawpaws a few times [1]. They're like a slightly less ripe banana taste in a less satisfying mango texture and less sour. I'm not a huge fan of the flavor but they are good ecologically, are native, and it's just fun to be able to eat fruit growing on trees.
Has anyone else noticed how good fruit has gotten in the past years? Sumo Citruses are amazing, strawberries have gotten sweeter (it depends which ones but generally). They used to always be white in the middle but now they're often have more red.
I just had some insane blueberries where they were all perfectly sour, firm, and there was only one bad one.
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I've only had pawpaws a few times also, and I would describe them as custard, without any strong taint of distinctive flavor.
It's more like creme brulee without the torched crisp top.
There was some news about this recently sadly I cannot find it at the moment. I guess there's a scale that is used to measure sugar content; the Brix scale, and fruit is moving up the scale really rapidly over the past decade or so.
Read a really interesting writeup on blueberry engineering and economics a while ago. Worth checking out.
https://sftw.substack.com/p/chasing-counter-seasonality