Fruit

Kadota

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Kadota is a green-to-yellow skinned fig with amber flesh and a clean, honeyed flavour that is less berry-forward than Black Mission. Commercially it became famous as a canning and drying fig because the pale flesh holds an attractive colour in syrup and the skin does not stain packs the way purple types do. Fresh ripe Kadota is soft and sweet but can taste one-dimensional if underripe; full tree-ripeness is essential. Use Kadota when you want fig flavour without dark purple juice—pale tarts, whole canned figs, and light-coloured preserves. It is also a solid grilled fig: the green-gold skin blisters nicely. In some markets “white figs” loosely include Kadota and similar pale types. Store ripe fruit cold and eat promptly; the pale skin shows bruises more honestly than black cultivars hide them.