Fresno Farmer harvests sweet jujube fruit gaining popularity

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A sweet, football-shaped effect called jujube is gaining traction successful the Central Valley and beyond.

Fresno husbandman Lam Truong grows implicit 9,500 Honey Jujube trees crossed 50 acres connected his farm.

The fruit, besides known arsenic reddish dates, is prized for its honey-like sweetness.

"Everybody that eats this, they're precise happy. They truly similar it," Truong said.

UC Cooperative Extension Advisor Michael Yang says jujube is becoming much popular, particularly among Asian communities. About 100 acres are present grown successful Fresno County.

"You effort this, and past an apple," Yang said. "I would instrumentality this implicit an apple."

Truong ships his harvest to LA, San Francisco, New York, and Toronto.

To find the best-tasting fruit, you privation spots of colour connected it.

"The reddish colour tastes really, truly sweet."

Jujubes tin beryllium eaten fresh, dried, oregon utilized successful sauces and soups.

Truong planted his archetypal trees successful 2017, betting the effect would drawback on.

And erstwhile you effort jujube, you can't person conscionable one.

"Once radical effort it, they retrieve it from childhood," Yang said.

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