There may be as many as 500,000 different kinds of fruit in the botanical world. A significant proportion of our human and primate history has been spent trying to figure out which ones are edible, or if there is a way to transform them into some sort of edible form. While the proper technique for apple or mango consumption may seem rather obvious, it is no simple task to figure out how to eat a coconut, a cacao bean or a stalk of wheat. In The Fruit Hunters, journalist Adam Leith Gollner explores the fascinating science of fruit (pomology), attempting to sample a multitude of the up to 80,000 edible fruits - and countless more varieties - that exist worldwide.

You can read the rest of my review at The Fruit Hunters.