With over 3,000 different fruits on the planet, you may find it hard to believe that less than 5% are readily available to buy in a  supermarket. That's just one of the reasons prickly exotic fruits  was set up.

The brands' roots can be traced back over a decade before. Both of us are in our early 20s and travelling the world, slowly becoming more cultured which led to us experiencing a heap of new fruit for the first time. It got us thinking, how we could import them into the UK and US ? Anyone travelling will know cash starts to dwindle, and credit lines start to run dry, so we eventually returned home fruitless, normality kicked in, careers took off, and our exotic fruit dream took a back burner.