Taste 17+ Tropical Brazilian Fruits at a Lively Farmers Market

Experience the flavors of tropical Brazil at a local farmers market with a fruit tasting session. Discover exotic fruits and learn about their nutritional value, culinary uses, and economic importance.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Carretão Ipanema Classic Grill - Dive mouth-first into the World of tropical fruits during a 2-hour walk & taste tour of a local farmers’ market with a foodie guide! You will taste over 17 tropical Brazilian fruits that are hard to find in US & Europe. We’ll explain its curiosities as we o open, smell, eat and judge it for its flavor.

OPTIONAL ADD-ON: 1-Hour supermarket tour! Explore incredible Brazilian foods and drinks to taste and food products to bring back as gifts to friends, family and colleagues that you can hardly find outside Brazil.

What's Included
  • Snacks
What's Not Included
  • any other fruit, food or drink you would like to buy for your own
Meal Options
  • Atlantic forest fruits - Passion Fruit
    Pitanga
    Carambola (Star Fruit)
    Acerola (Barbados cherry)
    Gold Banana

  • Central Brazil fruits - Palmer and Spade Mango
    Custard apple
    Atemoya
    Guava
    Jaboticaba

  • Amazonian fruits - Cocoa
    Graviola
    Cupuacu
    Acai

  • Brazilian Dry Backlands - Cashew fruit
    Umbu
    Seriguela
    Sapoti

Additional Information

This fruit tasting session introduces you to over a dozen of these exotic fruits.

You will cut open, smell, taste and drink various fruits.
An English-speaking (and German) fruit presenter will explain their nutrional value, culinary uses and economic importance.

Fruits to expect (depending on season)

Acai
Caju
Acerola
Goiaba
Manga espada
Jabuticaba
Graviola
Amora
Carambola
Jack fruit
Custard Apple
Pequi
Passion Fruit
Pitanga
Umbu
Seriguela
Tamarind
Sweet Papaya
Kinkan

Location
Carretão Ipanema Classic Grill
Rua Visconde de Pirajá
Tuesday: Meet us at Rua Visconde de Piraja 112, Ipanema Friday: Meet us at Rua Visconde de Piraja 339, Ipanema (By the Church Front Door)
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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343chaseh
Jun 25, 2024
Great experience! - We travel somewhat regularly, and have found that the local food/fruit/market tours offer an incredible value for a peek (and possibly taste) of local life. This tour was once again an incredible highlight amongst our group! Our guide took us around a local market, showing us different foods and explaining how some are used within local cuisine. Then we sat down to taste a whole bunch of tropical and unique fruits! The entire experience was the perfect way to start the day.
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Luiz_l
Jun 1, 2024
Flavor galore! Don't miss out! - Flavor galore! Our guide managed to find 18 exotic fruits even though we're in autumn! All kinds of flavors, lots of curious things about each.... A great tour for us Foodies! Don't miss out!
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Ana_l
May 22, 2024
Epicenter of exotic fruits - I'm a hardcore foodie and, despite being Brazilian, I was very surprised by the amount of exotic fruits that I didn't know about! Our tasting guide was very knowledgeable, friendly, and generous, so we got to taste all kinds of fruits as well as farmers market products. If you are a foodie and proud, book now!
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Milton_s
May 9, 2024
God save the queen of foods - What a market, with everything one would like to eat, taste and drink. All done by local people with their own flair. What needs someone after this visit? Obviously a hammock and a cat.
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Saulo_l
May 8, 2024
Great fruit tour/safari - Our guide was incredible at presenting a myriad of tropical and Brazilian fruits! 🍋🥭🥥🍍🥑 Most are incredibly tasty! Will do it again with my family next time in Rio.
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Julie_k
Apr 2, 2024
Delicious, fun and educational! - We had a wonderful time with Erica learning about Brazilian fruit. Erica did a great job of providing local context and answering all our questions as we tasted some new and all delicious fruit from nearby farms. She also took us around the market and helped us shop which was a lot of fun! I would definitely recommend!
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545eamond
Feb 16, 2024
Perfect taster of fruit, vegetables, herbs and cachaça with an awesome guide - Awesome tasting tour of the local fruits, vegetables, herbs and cachaça. Luiz was full of knowledge as he is also a chef so it added another level of depth to the tour. We ended it by trying some local pastel which was a perfect ending. Would definitely recommend. It's an outdoor market around a park so it was nice to tour the park and then sit inside it to try more fruits.
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