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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Some sweet potatoes can be very sweet

Yeah, there are sweet tubers. But, you can't put a raw piece of sweet potato in a fruit salad. If you cooked it to bring out the sweetness it would be as sweet as the fruit in the salad, but it would stand out for being very mushy.

Pulses are incredibly variable too in their usage.

I haven't heard the term "pulse" before, I've heard "legumes". But, yeah, that group has a lot of variety. Red beans are frequently used as a sweet filling in east Asian cooking, chickpeas as crunchy snacks, etc.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's more an issue of consistency than of taste though with sweet potatoes. There are some fruits that also don't fit into a fruit salad for similar reasons, like e.g. passion fruit or very soft kinds of nectrarines.

But I have seen ginger in fruit salad before.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Like, a big knob of ginger? Or just ginger shavings?

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