The fruit with big seeds is a topic that has been discussed a lot in recent years. There are many people who have been asking and searching for answers, but only to find out that they don’t really know which fruits have the biggest seeds.
Fruits with big black seeds
Blackberry
Cherry (sweet or sour)
Coconut
Fig
Grape
Hazelnut (filbert)
Kiwi fruit
Pear, especially Asian varieties such as the nashi and Chinese pear. They have large brownish seeds.
Plum, especially Japanese varieties such as the umeboshi and yuzu. The flesh of these fruits is usually much smaller than the seed.
One of the most common questions I get is, “What fruit has the biggest seeds?”
There are many fruits that have big seeds. Some of these include:
Tomatoes
Cherries
Apples
Pomegranates
Rhubarb
Nectarine
The avocado is a large tree that has a pear-shaped fruit with a large seed. The avocado tree is native to Central America and South America, but it can also be grown in California and Florida. The avocado is green when immature, but turns yellow or black when ripe.
The watermelon has a large seed that resembles a small pumpkin. Watermelons are juicy fruits that have been cultivated for thousands of years. The watermelon comes from Africa and Asia, but it is now grown in many parts of the world.
The kiwi fruit has a big black seed inside its fuzzy brown skin. Kiwis are native to China, but they were first grown commercially in New Zealand in 1904. They are also known as Chinese gooseberries or Tibetan apples.
The fruit with the largest seed is the coco de mer, a nut found in the Seychelles. The coco de mer produces seeds that are about 10 cm long and 3 cm wide.
The coco de mer is a palm tree that grows on beaches of the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean. Its fruit has been known for centuries as the Love Nut. The word “coco” comes from the Portuguese word for coconut, while “de mer” means “of the sea” (it was first discovered by sailors).
The coco de mer can reach 50 feet in height and produce up to 40 fruits per year. Each fruit contains only one seed which has an extremely hard shell covering several layers of hard kernel covering a soft core.
Bananas
The fruit of the banana plant are the plants’ female flowers (with seeds). Bananas do not contain any seeds. The edible part of the fruit is an enlarged thickening at the base of the flower, known as the peduncle. The peduncle grows until it connects to the stem of the plant, whereupon it stops growing and remains as a “stalk”. When this stalk eventually splits open, it reveals rows of small brown seeds in a white pulp. The seeds are embedded in a matrix of starch and are surrounded by a thin coating of fleshy material that is sweet but inedible. This fleshy layer or peel is easily removed by peeling or cooking. The seeds themselves are fairly soft and should be eaten only after cooking.
Bananas can be cooked either by boiling or steaming them whole over low heat for about 10 minutes until tender to eat raw or cooked in fruit salads or stews.
Prickly pears have the largest seeds of any fruit. The seed is actually a berry, but it’s so big that it’s sometimes called a cactus pear.
The seed of the avocado pear, also known as the alligator pear, is about the size of a walnut. It’s hard to chew and has a bitter taste, but many people still eat it. In fact, some people consider it an acquired taste — meaning you have to learn to like it.
The seeds of the durian fruit can measure up to 3 inches (8 centimeters) long! They’re covered with sharp spikes that help protect them from predators such as birds and monkeys.
Other fruits with large seeds include coconuts and watermelons
The fruit with the largest seed is the avocado. The seed is actually a stone, or pit. The avocado is also a drupe, which means that its seed or stone is surrounded by an oily layer of flesh. The avocado has a pitted outer skin and an inner skin that can be peeled away easily to reveal the fleshy green interior. The avocado is native to Mexico and South America but has spread throughout the world as a popular food ingredient due to its high fat content and rich taste.
The second-largest seed belongs to the coco de mer palm tree (lodoicea maldivica), which grows on islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. There are only about 12 known trees remaining in existence, primarily because they are extremely difficult to grow outside their native environment. Like avocados, coco de mer fruits have an oily layer of flesh surrounding their seeds.
The third-largest seed belongs to the carambola tree (Averrhoa carambola), which grows throughout Asia, Africa, Australia and Central America. Carambola fruits are also drupes with an oily layer of flesh surrounding their seeds.
The fruit with the largest seeds is the coconut. The coconut is a drupe, or stone fruit. It has a hard outer shell and a large seed inside. The coconut’s outer shell is called the husk, and its inner layer of flesh is called the meat. Coconuts grow on tall palms in warm climates around the world.
The most common type of palm tree that produces coconuts is the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Coconut palms grow up to 60 feet tall with trunks up to 3 feet wide. They have large leaves that are round and stiff like blades of grass. Coconut palms produce fruits that weigh between 2 pounds and 35 pounds each depending on their size and age.
The avocado is a tree, native to Mexico and Central America. The fruit is large and pear-shaped. It has a leathery skin with a dense fleshy interior. The avocado seed is large, round and flat.
The seed of the durian tree (Durio zibethinus) is about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide, making it one of the largest seeds in the world. The fruit itself has a very strong odor that many people find unpleasant but others find delicious.
The jackfruit is widely cultivated in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of Africa. Its fruit can weigh up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms). It can grow up to 45 feet (13 meters) tall with an average trunk diameter of around 2 feet (.6 meters). The jackfruit tree’s bark is prized as firewood because it burns slowly with little smoke or flame and produces low heat during its burning cycle.
The avocado is a large tree native to Mexico. The fruit of the avocado tree is pear-shaped and contains a single large seed. The seed, which is usually discarded in commercial production of avocados, is about two inches long and half an inch wide.
The coconut palm tree produces large nuts that are harvested for their oil, meat and water. The fruit of the coconut palm tree is actually a soft inner shell called the mesocarp that surrounds the hard outer shell or endocarp. This hard outer shell protects the seeds inside from drying out and becoming infertile. The endocarp is one inch thick and 2 1/2 inches long. Inside this hard outer shell there are up to six seeds that may be as much as four inches long! Each individual seed can weigh as much as two pounds!