'Underutilized fruits are less-known, less appealing, less-exploited fruits which are generally used is smaller locality or region. These are rich is many vitamins, nutrients and nutraceutical compounds. The underutilized fruits may be categorized in two groups i.e. indigenous and exotic. India has a rich diversity of fruits and several fruit plant species such as jack fruit, bael, aonla, ber, jamun, mahua, phalsa, lasoda, karonda, wood apple, bilimbi, kokum etc. have originated in Indian subcontinent. Several exotic fruits such as rambutan, avocado, longan, mangosteen, passion fruit, wax apple, durian etc. were introduced in India from South America , Africa, south east Asian countries during last four centuries. These fruits are rich in certain nutrients and slowly these are making place in our food baskets. The precise information on these fruits is compiled in this book Read more Table of Contents Contents Preface v Introduction ix 1. Avocado 1 2. Badwapuli 3 3. Bael 5 4. Barbados cherry 8 5. Bilimbi 10 6. Brazilean guava 12 7. Carambola 14 8. Dragon fruit 16 9. Durian 19 10. Ceylon olive 22 11. Egg furit 24 12. Elephant apple 26 13. Governors plum 28 14. Hog plum 30 15. Jack fruit 32 16. Jamun 35 17. Jungle jalebi 37 18. Karoda 39 19. Kokum 41 20. Lasoda 43 21. Longan 45 22. Mahua 47 23. Malabar tamrind 49 24. Mangosteen 51 25. Macadomia nut 53 26. Miracle fruit 55 27. Molshree 57 viii 28. Monkey Jack 59 29. Noni 61 30. Passion fruit 63 31. Phalsa 66 32. Pummello 69 33. Pulasan 72 34. Rambutan 74 35. Rose apple 76 36. Sour sop 78 37. Strawberry guava 80 38. Surinam cherry 83 39. Tamrind 85 40. Wax apple 87 41. Wild jack 89 42. Yellow Mangosteen 91 References 93 Index 97 About the Author/Editor Dr. P. C. Tripathi is working as Head (IC), Division of Plant Genetic Resources, IIHR, Bangalore. He worked as Scientist, Senior Scientist, and Principal Scientist, Section In-charge, Head, Regional Station and Krishi Vigyan Kendra in different ICAR institutes and SAUs. He has been associated with more than 25 research projects including 10 externally funded projects. He released four varieties of fruits and identified 10 promising lines of underutilized fruits and develops 6 prototypes of equipments and 10 production and post- harvest technologies of mango, onion and garlic etc. Last ten years, he is working on underutilized and wild fruits. He published more than 100 research papers, 129 research abstracts, 49 popular articles, 40 technical bulletins, 5 books, 30 book chapters etc. He is associated with several professional societies and received several awards.