What does a Quandong taste like?

A sweet taste with a balancing slightly sour and salty aftertaste and a mild aroma of dry lentils with some earthy fermented touches. The ripe, sweet, beautifully textured flesh of the Quandong is eaten fresh, although it can also be dried and stored for future use.Click to see full answer. Similarly one may ask, can you eat Quandongs? The fruit of the quandong The flesh surrounding the seed doesn’t just look good – its delicious flavour and texture have earned it the common names of native peach and sweet quandong. You can eat it raw or use it in jams and pickles. It’s also great dried, and in tarts and pies.Additionally, what does a Quandong look like? Quandong, quandang or quondong (Santalum acuminatum) is a common name for a small desert tree up to 4 metres high, with rough dark bark and pale green elongated hanging leaves. The cream flowers are small and cup shaped, in clusters at the ends of the outer branchlets. Hereof, how is Quandong used? Desert Quandong is an Evergreen tree, it’s fruit can be used to stewed to make pie filling for Quandong pies; made into a fruit juice drink; the seed (kernel) inside the tough shell can be extracted to be crushed into a paste then be used on sore gums or gum boil in your mouth, as it would ease the pain.Can you eat blue Quandongs?Blue Quandong. Blue Quandong (also called Blue Marble Tree or Blue Fig, though it is not a type of fig) is more commonly grown as an ornamental, prized for its beautiful wood, attractive flowers and bright blue fruit. Aboriginals would mix the fresh fruit with water to make an edible paste.