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Donut Peach
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Donut peach is the marketplace name for flat, saucer-shaped peento-type peaches with a sunken centre, white or yellow flesh, and usually freestone pits that pop free easily. Flavour is sweet and mild with less juice drip than large round melt peaches; skin is often less fuzzy and easy to eat whole like an apple. Size is small—two or three make a snack. Kid-friendly and lunchbox-friendly; also charming halved on cheese boards. Less ideal for classic cobbler volume because each fruit is petite. Buy fully coloured and slightly soft—flat types still need true ripeness for aroma.
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History
Chinese peento flat peaches existed for centuries before Western “donut” branding.
US marketers popularised flat peaches as donut or saturn-type retail novelties.
European and American plantings expanded flat white peaches for specialty sales.
Donut peaches became a standard summer novelty SKU in many supermarkets.