This fruit either burns your throat or tastes like a tropical medley.

This pristine honey with a cool menthol aftertaste is produced by honeybees that feast on a Hawaiian mesquite forest.

Once upon a time, getting your carbonation fix required a visit to a monstrous machine.

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

This century-old New Orleans treat is still sold from a mule-drawn cart.

Mixing soy sauce, Creole spices, and spaghetti, this hybrid soup is the embodiment of New Orleans' melting pot.

A sacred tree, a secret language, and the labor of generations of women keep an ancient tradition of salt harvesting alive.

When life gives you lemons, this tropical fruit makes 'em taste like lemonade.

When soaked and blended with water, the tigernut creates a nutritious nondairy beverage.

The psychedelic root used in a sacred Bwiti ritual may also treat heroin withdrawal.

Bees get a lift from helicopters in order to produce this spicy honey.

This tropical fruit once sparked a famous mutiny and now serves as a starch alternative in potato salad.

It's not Bajan Independence Day without banana leaf–wrapped corn cakes.

Costa Rica's iconic ice cream tub contains indescribably addictive cookies.

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

The spiky, fruit cup-flavored orb made an appearance on “Star Trek.”

Inside a hard, yellow shell lies a sweet, black spread.

Across East Africa, these cardamom-flavored doughnuts are the perfect pairing for chai.

The intoxicating South African fruit is beloved by humans and elephants.

It's not actually dark, but it is the world's sweetest.

These sweetened, dyed baobab seeds will leave your tongue red and tingling with flavor.

“To die dreaming” tastes like an orange creamsicle.

In Nigeria, ground peanuts become spicy, deep-fried nuggets and noodles.

A desert dweller’s delight, this bread gets baked in sand.