Can you eat the fruit from a loquat tree?

Answer 1

yes you can.

The loquat is comparable to the apple in many aspects, with a high sugar, acid and pectin content. It is eaten as a fresh fruit and mixes well with other fruits in fresh fruit salads or fruit cups. Firm, slightly immature fruits are best for making pies or tarts. The fruits are also commonly used to make jam, jelly and chutney, and are delicious poached in light syrup. Loquats can also be used to make wine.

Answer 2

Loquat fruits, growing in clusters, are oval, rounded or pear-shaped, 3-5 cm long, with a smooth or downy, yellow or orange, sometimes red-blushed skin. The succulent, tangy flesh is white, yellow or orange and sweet to subacid or acid, depending on the cultivar. Each fruit contains five ovules, of which three to five mature into large brown seeds. The skin, though thin, can be pulled off manually if the fruit is ripe.


Loquat in flower. This is a cultivar intended for home-growing, where the flowers open gradually, and thus the fruit also ripens gradually, compared to the commercially grown species where the flowers open almost simultaneously, and the whole tree's fruit also ripens together.The loquat is comparable to the apple in many aspects, with a high sugar, acid and pectin content. It is eaten as a fresh fruit and mixes well with other fruits in fresh fruit salads or fruit cups. Firm, slightly immature fruits are best for making pies or tarts. The fruits are also commonly used to make jam, jelly, and chutney, and are delicious poached in light syrup. A type of loquat syrup is used in Chinese medicine for soothing the throat, like a cough drop. Loquats can also be used to make wine.

Answer 3

Absatively, Posolutely. I just planted two loquat trees. Pick the yellow fruit, brush the hair off like a peach, peel the skin, the large seeds pop out easily and eat the juicy flesh of the fruit. Yummy.

The seeds grow easily if planted in fertile soil.

Answer 4

Yes, they sure can. Several years ago we visited my daughter in California, her neighbor had a loquat tree and brought us a huge bag of loquats. We had a feast eating the sweet fruit. We also saved several seeds and when I got home I planted on in a large pot and it grew to be over 7 feet tall. I was able to keep it in my living room which had a cathedral ceiling. When we moved to Missouri I was unable to bring it with me...........sure wish I could get some more seeds to grow another one.