Hachiya persimmons ... making them an excellent energy source. Dried persimmons offer a concentrated nutritional punch, with 274 kcal per 100 g compared to 70 kcal in raw persimmons.

No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon. So powerfully astringent is the unripe Hachiya variety, it’s a ...