Next year you’ll mostly be eating white strawberries: Pineberries set to be the taste of 2012 as demand for tropical fruit surges

December 27th, 2011

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White fruit has distinctive pineapple-like tropical taste
Other unusual fruit and veg including purple potatoes and ‘turbo melons’ set to become fashionable this year

By
Chris Parsons

Last updated at 1:07 PM on 27th December 2011

Their arrival is a sure sign that summer is on the way, but 2012 is the year when a new variety of strawberry will be the hit fruit of the season.

The pineberry, a white strawberry with a distinctive tropical flavour reminiscent of pineapple, hit the shops last year but is set to dominate fruit sales this summer.

More than 3,000 plants have been sent to garden centres hoping to grow the unusual fruit, which has flesh as white as the cream poured over traditional strawberries.

Growing popular: Pineberries went on sale in small amounts last year, but are set to become trendy and fashionable among gardeners in 2012.

When the fruit is sweet and juicy enough to eat, the flesh is almost totally white but studded with red seeds – the reverse of the usual variety.

Experts believe this coming year will see a trend for the strawberries, as well as other unusual veg such as purple majesty potatoes.

The oddly-coloured potato is also expected to prove popular after 100 tons of seed potatoes were sent to stores.

Both purple potatoes and white strawberries have been sold previously, but only in relatively small amounts.

Pineberries have an unusual white tinge, appear early and can be ready in May.

Discovered wild in South America and rescued from extinction by Dutch farmers, pineberries went on sale in Waitrose early last year.

Contrast: Purple Majesty potatoes with some conventional spuds

They join other unusual recently introduced fruits such as the strasberry, which looks like a cross between a strawberry and a raspberry.

Grown in glasshouses, the pineberry – as they have been dubbed for the British market – starts off green, gradually turning paler as it ripens.

Next year is also predicted to be the year when other unusual fruit and veg become fashionable among gardener, such as ‘turbo’ melons and tomatoes, in which standard examples are grafted onto highly vigorous roots, giving larger plants, heavier crops and greater resistance to pests like whitefly.

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Trying to persuade us? Actually I agree with John UK – if I want pineapple, I’ll buy pineapple thanks. I see no point in purple potatoes either. It would be better to concentrate on producing fruit that tastes as it should, at prices that the average person can afford, rather than what will be expensive novelty stuff for people who have more money than sense (unless they are growing it themselves of course).

– sandra, Alicante+spain, 27/12/2011 17:19

Might give the pineberries a try but no thanks to the purple potatoes they look disgusting!!

– emily, west mids uk, 27/12/2011 16:15

I just wish to have proper strawberries in the supermarkets, but that they sell it just tasteless something.

– jol, Farnham, 27/12/2011 16:12

No we won’t!!!

– Freddie The Flea, MA, USA, 27/12/2011 16:06

I hate strawberries, red or white, so I won’t be trying these in a hurry!

– S. I. Mather, Bradwell, UK, 27/12/2011 15:43

I agree that most shop bought strawberries are vusually appealing but lack taste. The best I ever ate were from someone’s allotment. Also, as with the increasing use of pine oil, does this interest in tropical fruits threaten the rain forest?

– Dis gruntled, Middle England, 27/12/2011 14:40

picking strawberries down the Gower is the magic place to be during the soft fruit season….
no taste like these anywhere

– Carl, Wales, 27/12/2011 14:26

the troulble is that there are so many “unusual” tropical fruits that we can’t have them all – but in order to get them to the fruit stalls they are either imported, which means they undergo conservation treatment to get them to the shops looking freshly picked, or else they are grown in controlled conditions which is a lot different from the natural “habitat”, and that alters the flavour. Strawberries in december taste like plastic.

– Dario, Italy, 27/12/2011 14:22

and more disease, right?

– elizzy, uk, 27/12/2011 14:02

if i want something that tastes like pineapple i will have a pineapple not a strawberry that tastes like a pineapple

– john, uk, 27/12/2011 13:52

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