Tag - Jabuticaba

Easy way to prepare Jabuticaba jam at home

Ingredients 800g Jabuticaba (buy a kilo and use the rest for drinks!) 300g sugar Optional: cinnamon stick (canela), cloves (cravo-da-índia) Method Wash the fruit, drain and place in a large saucepan. Use any utensil you have to crush the fruit – a potato masher, wooden spoon or even a fork works fine. You don’t need to mash them...

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Jabuticaba: An unusual fruit with anticancer, detox, antioxidant properties

The jabuticaba or jaboticaba is an unusual fruit that appears to blossom right out of the bark and trunk of its tree. It is often used in its native lands in South America much like grapes are used elsewhere. Jabuticaba fruit looks like thick-skinned deep-purple grapes. Inside the pink or...

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