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Durian

Durio zibethinus, Durio

Durian is a fruit with a creamy texture that can be crisp or soft when raw. Cooks use the fruit and seeds, and eat the fruit raw or ferment or preserve it. Durian pairs with glutinous rice and is sold fresh or as a paste.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit, seed
Family
Malvaceae
Texture
Creamy, crisp, soft
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Durian, whole

Photo: Eye Steel Film from Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use durian

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Ferment
  • Preserve
  • Raw

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Creamy

Texture, raw

  • Crisp
  • Soft

Shopping

Choosing and storing durian

Sold as
Fresh, Paste

Nutrition

What 100 g of durian holds

Per 100 g, frozen. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 4%Fat 16%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of durian, frozen
Energy147 kcal · 615 kJ
Protein1.5 g
Fat5.3 g
Carbohydrate27 g
Fibre3.8 g
Sodium2 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of durian, frozen: minerals and vitamins
Potassium436 mg
Calcium6 mg
Iron0.43 mg
Magnesium30 mg
Zinc0.28 mg
Vitamin C20 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)2 µg
Folate36 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 168192), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where durian is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use durian. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list durian among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
South-eastern Asia

  1. The 1500s · Sri Lanka

    The Portuguese introduced D. zibethinus to Sri Lanka.

  2. 1881 · United States

    Durian reached Hawaii as a gift to King Kalākaua.

  3. 1884 · Dominica

    The first seedlings were sent from Kew to Dominica.

On the table

Dishes made with durian

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Jruek Drien

    Indonesia

  • Tempoyak

    Indonesia

  • Bayao nibalu

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include durian.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: durian in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
fruit

Around the world

What durian is called

Names in 87 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    durio · lahia · cullenia

  • French

    durian · dourion · durion

  • Italian

    durian · durione

  • Portuguese

    durio

  • German

    Durian · Durianbaum · Stinkfrucht · Käsefrucht

  • Dutch

    doerian · stinkvrucht · durian · Durio zibethinus

  • Greek

    ντούριαν

  • Turkish

    durian · Durio zibethinus

  • Russian

    Дуриан · Шальмугровое яблоко

  • Polish

    durian · durio

  • Arabic

    دوريان · فاكهة الدوريان · الدوريان · الدريان

  • Persian

    خارگیل · دوریان

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  • Achinese

    Driën · Durio

  • Assamese

    ডুৰিয়ান

  • Azerbaijani

    Durian

  • Balinese

    Durén

  • Bangla

    দুরিয়ান

  • Basque

    Durian

  • Batak Toba

    Tarutung

  • Belarusian

    Дурыян

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    дурыян

  • Bikol

    Durian

  • Bulgarian

    Дуриан · Durio

  • Burmese

    ဒူးရင်းသီး

  • Catalan

    dúrio

  • Cebuano

    Durian · Duryan

  • Central Dusun

    Pokilahan

  • Central Kurdish

    دوڕیان · میوەی دوڕیان

  • Chinese

    榴梿 · 榴莲

  • Czech

    durian · Durio

  • Danish

    Durian · Durio zibethinus

  • Egyptian Arabic

    دوريان

  • Esperanto

    durio

  • Estonian

    Durian

  • Filipino

    durian · duryo

  • Finnish

    duriohedelmä · Durio zibethinus · Durian

  • Georgian

    დურიო

  • Hakka Chinese

    Liû-liên

  • Hebrew

    דוריאן · דוריו · Durio

  • Hungarian

    durián

  • Iban

    Rian

  • Icelandic

    Dáraaldin

  • Indonesian

    durian

  • Japanese

    ドリアン

  • Javanese

    durèn · Durén · Dhurèn · Duren

  • Kazakh

    Дуриан

  • kge

    Durian

  • Khmer

    ទុរេន

  • Kinaray-a

    durian · duryo · dorian · doryo

  • Kinyarwanda

    Duriyani · Durio · Durian

  • Komi

    Дуриан · Durio

  • Komi-Permyak

    Дуриан · Durio

  • Korean

    두리안

  • Latin

    Durio zibethinus

  • Latvian

    duriāns · Durians · Duriāni · Durio

  • lbe

    Дуриан · Durio

  • Lithuanian

    Durijus · Durija · Durian · Durio

  • Macedonian

    дуријан

  • Malay

    durian · buah durian · derian

  • Malay (Arabic)

    دورين

  • Malayalam

    ഡുറിയാൻ · Durio zibethinus · Durian

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Liû-liân

  • Minangkabau

    Durian

  • Nias

    Duria (sinanö)

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    durian

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    durian · durianfrukt

  • Occitan

    Durian

  • Odia

    ଡୁରିଆନ୍

  • Pampanga

    durian · duriu

  • Romanian

    Durian

  • Serbian

    Durijan

  • Shan

    မၢင်ႇတူးရိၼ်း · မၢၵ်ႇလၢင်းမဵၼ် · မၢၵ်ႇလၢင်းၼၢမ်

  • Simplified Chinese

    榴梿

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    榴梿

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    榴梿

  • Sinhala

    දූරියන්

  • Slovak

    Durian

  • Slovenian

    durian

  • Somali

    Canuuni

  • Sundanese

    Kadu · Durén · Durian

  • Swedish

    Durian · Durianer · Durio · Duriosläktet

  • Tamil

    முள்நாறிப் பழம் · டுரியான்

  • Telugu

    రాజ పనస · రాజపనస

  • Thai

    ทุเรียน · Durio zibethinus

  • Traditional Chinese

    榴槤

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    榴槤

  • Udmurt

    Дуриан · Durio

  • Ukrainian

    дуріан

  • Urdu

    دھورئین

  • Uyghur

    دۇرىيان (مىۋە)

  • Venetian

    durion · dùrio

  • Vietnamese

    sầu riêng

  • Waray

    durian · duryo

  • Western Mari

    Дуриан

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q134185

Photos

Photo: Eye Steel Film from Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons