| While starfruit is mainly eaten as fresh fruit, they may be used in desserts, in savoury dishes or processed as beverages, jam, pickles or preserves. |
| My relatives were all laughing at me because they think starfruit is a nuisance – they don't really eat them because they're so tart, and when they become sweet they disintegrate very quickly. |
| The starfruit grows on a graceful spreading tree that thrives in partial shade. |
| In Britain, seeds of the starfruit, a small white flower that has almost died out were collected and stored at Wakehurst and samples sent to Kew for DNA fingerprinting. |
| They make the best jams with the bananas, the papaya and the starfruit. |
| Women – mostly grandmotherly in age and many wearing a traditional non la, the conical Vietnamese hat – were selling produce: wrinkly starfruit, purple yams, cabbage, even mini fruit trees. |
