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.
Durian and Alcohol: What the Research Actually Found
There is a real published mechanism. It was measured in yeast enzyme, not people.
Durian Calories and Nutrition: The Actual Numbers
147 kcal per 100g. Low glycaemic index, high calorie density, and very high potassium.
Durian Grades Explained: A, B, C, CC, CCC and AAA
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 in Pregnancy: What the Advice Actually Says
Safe in moderation. The constraint is sugar and calories, not heatiness.
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 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.
Durian vs Jackfruit: How to Tell Them Apart
Different families, different fruit. If the spikes can hurt you, it is durian.
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 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.
How to Store Durian Without Ruining It or Your Fridge
48 hours chilled for the best of it. Freeze properly, defrost slowly, contain the smell.
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, and Whether It Is 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.
What Not to Eat With Durian: The Evidence Behind It
One pairing has a real mechanism behind it. Most of the rest are folklore, and one traditional pairing is actually recommended, not warned against.
Where Durian Is Not Allowed in Singapore: MRT, Taxis, Hotels
The famous MRT durian sign is the only pictogram on it with no dollar figure next to it. Hotels are where people actually get charged, and one airline bans it outright.
Why Does Durian Smell So Strong? The Actual Chemistry
Two families of aroma compound at once, not one, and a 2017 genome study explains why durian is so well built to make the sulphurous half.
Seasonal
These change through the year and are updated as they do.