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Giant seeds and teeny seeds: Fruit flaunts both styles. Mangosteen (native to Indonesia) has

giant seeds buried in tasty white flesh all covered by a stiff purple rind that you toss. The

dragon fruit of Asia and the Americas has zillions of seeds peppered through it. Run a spoon

around the flesh to free it from the scaly rind.

Dragon fruit

Mangosteen

Durian

Rambutan

These fruits hide their

bizarre insides behind

spiny skin. Southeast Asia’s

famous durian fruit has

big, yolklike pods of sweet

but rank-smelling flesh.

Rambutan from Malaysia

boasts a huge, eye-shaped

central seed and a layer of

flesh that you can nibble

away from it.