TIL coffee cherries are a real fruit and you can eat them

I was reading an article from a farm in Costa Rica and found out the coffee bean is the pit inside a red fruit called a coffee cherry. They said the pulp tastes sweet, almost like a mix of watermelon and hibiscus. Has anyone here ever tried the fruit part, or know where to find it fresh?

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david5621mo ago

Yeah, the pulp is sweet. You can sometimes find the whole dried cherries at specialty coffee shops that roast their own beans.

kim.zara28d ago

Whole dried cherries are a thing? I never knew that. There's a tiny roaster near me that does some interesting single origins, I'm gonna have to ask if they ever stock them.

the_mary1mo ago

Wow, that's wild! I read a travel blog once where someone described it as tasting like a weird, floral grape. It sounds like you'd have to visit a farm to try it fresh, which is a cool reason for a trip.