I walked to a girlfriend’s house, and when I got there, she handed me two small fruits I had never heard of. She was giving me two sweetsop that were left over from a party the night before.
Sweetsop grows on a small tree native to the tropical Americas and the Caribbean. Sweetsop, also called sugar apple, is related to soursop, which grows here in Hawaii.
Sweetsop is made of many sections with bumpy, scale-like skin. When a ripe sweetsop is pulled apart, the sections come apart too, and each section holds sweet, creamy white flesh around a dark seed. The scientific name, Annona squamosa, comes from a Latin word meaning scaly.
You eat the flesh and spit out the seeds. Sweetsop seeds contain toxic compounds and should not be eaten, especially chewed or crushed. Ground sweetsop seeds have even been used as an insecticide.
Sweetsop flesh provides vitamin C, potassium, and calcium.
You are welcome to experience sweetsop.
Stacy
Information in this post comes from my learning and research.
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