The commercial use of the fruit includes its addition to sweet and savoury foods; the flavour is tart and reminiscent of peach, apricot, or rhubarb.

In South Australia S. acuminatum is called "wild peach" or "desert peach".

The fruit and nut of the plant were featured in a bushfood series of stamps produced by Australia Post.

It is well known as an exotic food in foreign markets, sales that greatly exceed the consumption in its own country.
The fruit also has free radical-scavenging ability.

The fruit has been made commercially available, the distinctive flavour is used as an additive, particularly as a uniquely Australian product.
This has usually been sourced from wild trees, sometimes by Aboriginal corporations, although the viability of commercial orchards is also being trialled.

Many Aboriginal peoples are known to have used the fruit, but mainly they gathered the nuts.
The undigested nut can be easily gathered from emu droppings.

The kernel has been identified, analysed, and monitored, as a "wild-harvested Australian indigenous food", by Food Standards Australia New Zealand.
The product is found to be very high in fats, over half by weight.
The commercial use of the fruit includes its addition to sweet and savoury foods; the flavour is tart and reminiscent of peach, apricot, or rhubarb.
In South Australia S. acuminatum is called "wild peach" or "desert peach".
The fruit and nut of the plant were featured in a bushfood series of stamps produced by Australia Post.
It is well known as an exotic food in foreign markets, sales that greatly exceed the consumption in its own country. The fruit also has free radical-scavenging ability.
The fruit has been made commercially available, the distinctive flavour is used as an additive, particularly as a uniquely Australian product. This has usually been sourced from wild trees, sometimes by Aboriginal corporations, although the viability of commercial orchards is also being trialled.
Many Aboriginal peoples are known to have used the fruit, but mainly they gathered the nuts. The undigested nut can be easily gathered from emu droppings.
The kernel has been identified, analysed, and monitored, as a "wild-harvested Australian indigenous food", by Food Standards Australia New Zealand. The product is found to be very high in fats, over half by weight.
Santalum acuminatum