Montego's Guinepp

Fresh Guinepp from Jamaica (Seasonal item)

Jamaican guinepp is sweet jelly-like fruit, where its exterior is a smooth green skin shaped like an olive but a little bigger. This small fruit varies in taste- sweet, tangy, and stainy- that has a similar appearance as lychee which Jamaicans refer to as Chinese guinepp.

This exotic seasonal fruit is grown in a tropical climate where its harvest is most copious in the summer (June- August). The fruit is mostly grown in the Caribbean, Africa, Florida, and other locations with a warm climate like South and Central America, Hawaii The Philippines, and even Israel!

Not just the fruit is nutritious but the leaves are too! The guinepp tree leaves can be boiled or brewed as a tea. The tea is good for intestinal issues like peptic ulcers and stomach aches.

So, sweeten with a little honey or sugar and you're good to go! The tree is planted as a sucker/seed with fertilizers which takes up to five to ten years before it produces fruits.