From the Arecaceae family, a tropical fruit native to Indonesia, the salak or snake fruit is an evergreen, spiny berry native to Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. Salak was named snake fruit due to its reddish-brown snake-like skin. It also goes by many popular names like salak palm, snake palm, and snake-skinned fruit. Several popular varieties of salak are grown worldwide because of their delightful taste and nutritious profile. The fruit is quite small, say about the size of a fig, and has a sweet and sour taste with a crunchy texture.