true fruit

What we deem the fruit of the fig is, it will be remembered, only the husk, the apparent seeds being the true fruit and—before ripening—the blossom.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

There were others who believed that the Christian moral system must remain, because it had commended itself to man's nature as the highest and best and was the true fruit of evolutionary progress.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Grenville Kleiser

That is, I have planted the seed that will produce the true fruit, and it is for others only to cultivate and nourish what I have planted.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber

They open as nuts do, and then you will find a kernel inside which is the true fruit.’

From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid