The fruit is roughly the size of a large fig, and has a crunchy and moist consistency. The fruit has a starchy mouthfeel, and a flavour reminiscent of dilute pineapple and lemon juice. The most expensive cultivar of the Bali salak is the "gula pasir" (literally "sand sugar" or "grain sugar", referring to its fine-grainedness), which is smaller than the normal salak and is the sweetest of all salak. The price in Bali is Rp 15,000-30,000 (US$1.50-3.00) per kilogram depending on time of year. Salak gula pasir, also known as Sugar salak, which is known for its juicy sweetness, is sometimes fermented into Salak wine which has an alcohol content of 13.5 percent, similar to traditional wine made from grapes.