available in the cool fall months through to orange persimmon is one of the sweetest fruits can be eaten fresh dried or cooked in jellies and puddings to speed up ripening place in a brown paper bag with an apple kiwi or a banana vanilla is juicy and soft to the point of being mushy that marks other persimmon varieties hachiya the acorn shaped hachiya persimmons are spoon or made into puddings and baked goods fuyu or sliced in fruit or vegetable salads
