Durian Guides
Straight answers about durian, checked against named sources and updated in place rather than republished.
Guides
Buying Durian for Professional Kitchens: What Grade Buys You
Grade is a shape and condition score, not a taste score. For any application that scrapes or blends the flesh, a cheaper grade off the right tree can taste identical to the expensive one.
Can You Drink Coke or Coffee After Eating Durian?
One pairing has a real mechanism behind it. Most of the rest are folklore, and one traditional pairing is actually recommended, not warned against.
Can You Eat Durian During Pregnancy? What the Advice Says
Safe in moderation. The constraint is sugar and calories, not heatiness.
Durian and Alcohol: What the Research Actually Found
There is a real published mechanism. It was measured in yeast enzyme, not people.
Durian Calories: Per 100g, Per Seed and Per Whole Fruit
147 kcal per 100g. Low glycaemic index, high calorie density, and very high potassium.
Durian Delivery in Singapore: How It Works, What It Costs, What to Check
Almost every durian delivery in Singapore is dehusked flesh in a sealed box, ordered by afternoon and delivered the same evening, with a replacement if a pod is bad. The price is a box price, so the only way to compare it with a stall is to convert both to cost per kilo of flesh. This page sets out how the services work, what they publish about fees and timing, and what to check at the door.
Durian Grade List: AAA, AA, A, B, C, CC and CCC Explained
Nobody sells durian as Class I or Class II. You are quoted A, AB, B, C, CC or CCC from a farm, or AAA at a stall, and no standards body defines any of them. Here is the weight and chamber count behind each letter, and what the written standards say.
Durian Mooncakes: What They Are and How to Buy Well
Why snowskin, not baked. Which variety is in the box, and how to tell before you buy.
Durian on the MRT: Is There a Fine? Singapore Durian Rules
The MRT durian sign has no dollar figure on it, but the regulations behind it allow a fine of up to S$500. Hotels are where people are most often charged, and several airlines ban it outright.
Durian Purée for Kitchens: Yield, Cost and What to Ask For
Most durian that reaches a hotel or restaurant kitchen arrives as frozen purée rather than whole fruit. Purée has no fixed composition, so two quotes per kilogram are rarely quoting the same product, and the yield loss between fruit and finished purée happens twice.
How Durian Wholesale Pricing Works: Farm Gate to Landed Cost
A cheaper quote for the same nominal grade almost never means a better deal, because every layer in the chain has its own floor cost. It usually means the fruit was sorted down harder than the letter suggests, or that wastage was never priced in.
How Long Does Durian Last? Fridge, Freezer, Opened, Unopened
48 hours chilled for the best of it. Freeze properly, defrost slowly, contain the smell.
How Much Durian Is Too Much?
A normal portion is smaller than it looks. The real risks are sugar, calories and potassium, not heatiness.
How to Choose a Durian: What to Check at the Stall
Six checks in order, plus the two substitutions most likely to catch you out.
Jackfruit vs Durian: Are They the Same Fruit? How to Tell Them Apart
Different families, different fruit. If the spikes can hurt you, it is durian.
Sourcing Durian Commercially: Singapore's Import Rules
Durian puree is a processed food, not fresh fruit, so it runs through SFA's registration route rather than the import licence. What Singapore's rules require of an importer and a Malaysian supplier, what they leave open, and the questions worth asking before signing an order.
Taking Delivery of a Durian Order: What to Agree First
Durian quality cannot be judged until the fruit is opened, so every quality question gets settled after the delivery is already sitting in your kitchen. The terms that decide who carries that risk have to be agreed before the order, not after it.
The 2026 Durian Price Drop: What Caused It, Is It Over?
A glut is a supply event with a beginning and an end. This one began with acreage planted for the China boom and ended when the Johor harvest finished in July.
Why Does Durian Smell So Strong? The Actual Chemistry
Two families of aroma compound at once, not one, and a 2017 genome study links durian's extra copies of one gene to the sulphurous half.
Seasonal
These change through the year and are updated as they do.