{"id":144626,"date":"2022-08-23T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/pawpaws-are-americas-hidden-edible-treasure-heres-how-to-pick-them"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:23:06","slug":"pawpaws-are-americas-hidden-edible-treasure-heres-how-to-pick-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/pawpaws-are-americas-hidden-edible-treasure-heres-how-to-pick-them","title":{"rendered":"Pawpaws are America\u2019s hidden edible treasure. Here\u2019s how to pick them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pawpaws-are-americas-hidden-edible-treasure-heres-how-to-pick-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pawpaw varieties are assessed on their flavor, yield, fruit size, texture, and disease resistance, Crabtree says. She adds that the \u201cbest varieties\u201d would be high yield trees that produce a pawpaw with \u201cfirmness and\/or creaminess that\u2019s not watery, mushy, or gritty\u201d as well as a lower percentage of seeds.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Hunting for pawpaw<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Native to 26 states, pawpaw can be found along the East Coast between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/ontario\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/canada\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>, and northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/florida\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> west to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/kentucky\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/ohio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/michigan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/nebraska\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/kansas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/destination\/texas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawpaw varieties are assessed on their flavor, yield, fruit size, texture, and disease resistance, Crabtree says. She adds that the \u201cbest varieties\u201d would be high yield trees that produce a pawpaw with \u201cfirmness and\/or creaminess that\u2019s not watery, mushy, or gritty\u201d as well as a lower percentage of seeds. Hunting for pawpaw Native to 26 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}