Fruit of the future? Brits' taste for the exotic sees soaring sales of persimmons overtake mangoes and pineapples

We Brits are often lampooned for what other nations perceive as our unadventurous approach to foreign food.


But according to a new study, all that could be set to change. The report, published today, shows that UK sales of more unusual tropical fruits have soared as adventurous Britons develop a taste for more exotic groceries. 


Sales of persimmons - also known as sharon fruit - have for the first time overtaken sales of mangoes, while sales of pomegranates have rocketed by almost 30 per cent.  More Read