Most OVERRATED Fruits!

If you like pears you really must try conference pears. I literally cannot stop eating them!

Hmmm I don't think I've ever heard of 'em.. I just learned of Asian Pears some time a few years ago and instantly fell in love. But don't think I've heard of Conference Pears. I'm gonna have to check 'em out!

All fruit can be wonderful or "meh" depending on how it's grown, where it's grown, how ripe it is, how fresh it is... a myriad of different reasons.

I'm sitting on the couch eating fresh, local, in-season strawberries from about 20 miles away and they're bleeding delicious. In December, the strawberries from Spain are watery balls of nothing.

Yeah, that very well may be the case -- if so, I guess I've just had really bad luck with the above fruits because they've more often than not, or always, been pretty sucky and bleh.

Strawberries have always been touch-and-go for me \, but -- unlike the other berries I mentioned -- I"ve had some EXCELLENT strawberries. I've definitely seen both sides of that fruit. The others, not so much.

Love fruit, love to Juice, I know apple seeds are real bad

Yep, juicing is heavenly, whenever I have the time and patience for it (mainly, the cleanup and needing to drink it as soon as possible).

Fruit contains horrible chemicals, I'd avoid them

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Ha. No.

Lol..I was gonna say something, but...decided to just leave it alone.

You should give blueberries another chance and get them frozen I have such a hard time with fresh ones and don't think they have that much flavor. BUTTTTTTT... the frozen ones in the freezer section of the grocery store are amazing!!

Hmmm I admit I've never had them -- or any other berries, I don't think -- frozen; that may indeed be the key. I'll have to do that. Thanks for the suggestion!

When I was a kid, I would pick wild blackberries and raspberries right off the bushes and eat them. Awesome. But they are a bit tart.

I don't like blueberries in their own, but I like them baked into things. And those three berries blended into a smoothie with some chocolate PB is to die for!

The thing is, taste aside, they'e very full of nutrients and fiber, so from a health perspective, they aren't overrated.

Agree with blueberries in baked foods and all of them blended into smoothies (and as flavors for various other types of foods).

I definitely acknowledge the fact that they're healthy -- by "overrated", I was solely referring to taste.

I like berries a lot, and I think they pack a great nutritional punch - tons of antioxidants and fiber with not very many calories. I do think they fall into that "must be just right" category, though - I rarely eat them outside of summertime when I can get locally grown ones. And I hate red delicious apples (but LOVE honeycrisps) and can't stand pears .

However, for me, most overrated? The banana. I eat one once in awhile, but they have to be JUST right, ripeness-wise, otherwise the texture is enough to make me gag. And there's a good bit of potassium, true, but past that they don't hold a lot of nutritional upside for me - I can think of a lot better ways to use up 100 or so calories.

LOVE bananas, although I do agree about needing to eat them when they're just right.

I love all fruit.

Those mangos with attitudes though...they get to me.

All of those fruits are yummy!!!!

But.. you have to get fresh organic fruits.. those without checmicals injected into them. I've coverted tomato haters into tomato lovers when they tried an organic tomato. They taste like a tomato, instead of flavorless mush.. Same with frutis. The ones in the grocery stores do not taste the same as the ones my mom and grandmother used to grow. Hit up an organic farm or farmers market, there's the good stuff..

Yeah, I admit I haven't too often done the organic stuff, but I've heard so many folks swear by it. Maybe I could try the organic forms of the above-mentioned fruits to see if that helps change my outlook.

What makes a fruit overrated?

Overrated how?

Berries are an awesome source of antioxidants as well as soluble fiber. Antioxidants help to protect your body from free radicals...soluble fiber gets the **** out of your arteries. Blueberries, for it's tiny size are a wealth of nutrition...won't go into all of the details, but you can research yourself.

As far as the apple goes, the old saying is pretty accurate...an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Chalked full of phytonutrients and good old pectin to help lower blood fat levels....not to mention, tasty.

Not sure what is mean by overrated?

Sorry, I should've been clearer. I never really considered the possibility that "overrated" could be interpreted in different ways. I was strictly referring to taste. Trust me, I'm highly aware of all of the health benefits of berries and that infamous Red Delicious apple. When raw (not baked or blended into something else, for example), I've just never had any real positive taste experiences with any of 'em

Berry fan all the way, so I would disagree on your overrated fruits, although strawberries are my favorite. For me the most overrated is watermelon. Never have been a fan.

When strawberries are good, they're great. And omg, I LOVE watermelon.

My family had a cottage growing up and picking blueberries in the summer was amazing. They are sooooooo good but buying them from the grocery store is not that same. They are not even the same fruit. I LOOOOOVE raspberries and blackberries as well. Also better right off the bush.

My favorite fruit by far is fresh pineapple. However, I am not picky in anything I eat....thats how I got fat!

Love pineapples

We just can't agree. I love red delicious!!!!!!!! And I still say bananas are almost always delicious

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omg..can't believe you find Red Delicious actually...delicious, lol.. Lordy lordy lord!

And I do love bananas when they're right

A lot of fruit seems to be variable. It's one thing that irritates me about it. Watery, tasteless apples, hard pears, dry, chewy citrus, non-ripening peaches, mouldy strawberries ... Vegetables are usually much more ... predictable.

I never thought of it quite like that, but I completely agree! Great point. I think the difference is the often expected either sweetness or just the right combination of sweetness and sourness (like in a green apple) in fruits, whereas most veggies tend to have and are expected to have more of a neutral taste -- not as much extreme. And they probably mostly don't ripen/expire nearly as quickly as most fruits.