Comments on: Mamoncillo, Quenepa, Ginep

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:20:28 +0000

Please!!!!!!! I live in central Florida and I fell in love with this fruit when I went I went to St. Thomas someone please tell me where I can find them in central Florida … I’m desperate!!!! Thanks in advance

By: cia

cia — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:41:06 +0000

Dry the seeds first before you roast them. When ready to roast, spread on a baking sheet and roast at 300º. Try for 10 minutes first and just go from there. I don’t think I roasted them for more than 20 though.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:56:13 +0000

what are the specifics of roasting them? I tried today but not with good result (350 degrees, 20 min). They were taking forever though so I took them out of the oven and boiled them. They cooked but the problem was that they were too soft from the water. I guess letting them dry out or roasting or both would have done the trick then.

By: cia

cia — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:26:05 +0000

Sorry; we just have them readily available from street fruit carts here in NYC.

By: Eileen Onions

Eileen Onions — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:47:34 +0000

we are looking to buy quenepas cant find them any where can you help?

By: Anne Sutton Brown

Anne Sutton Brown — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:14:45 +0000

I grew up in Jamaica (60 years ago) and I love guineps but can’t find good ones here in Montreal, Canada. As children, we always managed to get guinep stains all over our clothes and the stains were impossible to remove – similar to the stains left by choke cherries that one finds growing wild here in Eastern Canada.

I’m interested in the roasting of the seeds and wonder whether they are really safe to eat. There are so many seeds that have toxic components in them that I think you should try and find out before eating too many!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:30:55 +0000

I’m from Panama RP (not Panama City, FL). I remember these fruits growing up as a kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Every summer the grocer’s would have them available for sale. It was a summer treat that my mom gave to the kids to eat while walking up and down Flatbush Ave. I only new them as mamones. Now i’m in California and can’t find them anywhere. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:13:38 +0000

Wow am from Jamaica myself and I now lived in Dallas Texas and I try to find a lot of these fruit as well and its really hard to find them so I only get them when I go back home on Vacation but its really True that Jamaican is all over the world even in Nordic Sweden all the way From Flordia one love and Big up Jamaican all over the world

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:30:13 +0000

I’m from The Bahamas and I love guineps! Some of us eat the seed too, after biting off the casing. I was checking the internet to see whether anyone ever tried roasting them, and there you were. Thanks. I’ll try and probably use them as a salad extra.

By: Niq

Niq — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:06:30 +0000

Yummy! Quenepas :) They are very popular in Puerto Rico on the street lights. They are available on summers and sometimes in early autumn. I had never seen anyone roast them or eat the seed. Gosh, mamones sure is a very ugly word.