Wonder what these are? These are not grapes or coffee beans. These are sour berries which grow abundantly in my home town in Nueva Ecija. Bignay fruits are like sour berries which grows in clusters of 20 to 30 per bunch. Mysteriously, (I like giving everything the wow! factor, so there) the berries never ripen at the same time.
These are bignay trees growing in our front yard in Nueva Ecija.
These are unripened bunch of bignay fruits. Most are red while some are still yellowish.
Even on these bunches, some are already dark but others still remain reddish in color.
In some Asian countries, Bignay is being processed into jams, wine and even in cooking dishes but I’ve never heard of those being done in the Philippines. Here, or at least as far as I know, bignay fruits are only eaten raw or tossed in salt.
Bignay is just one of my favorite citrus fruits native to Nueva Ecija. When I visited my home town last weekend, I was not able to see and taste some caramay, yantok fruits, balimbing and santol. Sour fruits rock!
hello sir! I've been following your blog since I saw your post about tamagoyaki. Gulat po ako kasi nabasa ko dito na taga-Nueva Ecija din po kayo. San po kayo dito? I'm from San Leonardo po.
yes Rio. I'm from Aliaga and if you know that place well, I'm from Poblacion Centro
I’m from Nueva Ecija, too, and very familiar with the bignay and the other sour fruits you mentioned. Ahhh, memories of my childhood are flooding my head now.
Hello Edelweiza, where exactly in Nueva Ecija are you from? Paborito mo rin ba ang bunga ng yantok na mukhang kumpol ng beehives at sobrang asim