A new fruit (for us)

That cactus with the beautiful flowers has fruited, and I finally found out what it is. The owner thought it was Dragon Fruit but it's actually a Cereus Peruvianus, aka Peruvian Apple. Each one of those beautiful flowers produced a purple-skinned fruit.
The owner doesn't eat the fruit so he said we could help ourselves. Today I picked one that looked ripe, to see what it's like. 
Inside it's similar to a Dragon Fruit but the taste is a little sweeter. The seeds are edible which is a good thing, cause you could never pick all those out. The odd thing is that as you spoon it out, it almost liquefies. 
I wouldn't necessarily eat a bunch of these plain, but they might be excellent in smoothies.

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