![]() ![]() Here are some of the reasons why this fruit is highly sought after. Sweetsop is highly medicinal, nutritive and therapeutic in nature which suggests its global high demand. Each fruit contains up between 15 to 40 seeds depending on the size. The inner flesh is light yellow to creamy white in colour, tasty and has similar taste to that of custard which suggests why it is also known as custard apple. The outer skin or rind is very thick with knobby segments that usually separates when ripe. The fruit measures approximately 2.4–3.9 inches height, 2.0–3.9 inches in diameter and weighs up to 240 g. Sugar-apple is a tropical fruit that belongs to the Annonaceae family with a conical shape. The fruit is granular in appearance, juicy, soft, sweet and has aromatic flavour. The sweetsop is closely related to guyabano (soursop) but a lot more smaller in size without spikes. Sugar apple is also known as sweetsop, sugar-pineapple, custard apple (Annona reticulata), aajaa thee, seureuba, plae teib, Gishta (ጊሽጣ), Zimtapfel, foreign lychee, anona blanca, قشطة (ishta), buah nona, noi-na, matomoko, hairico, Khirmish (خرمش), ekistaferi, kachiman, atis, annona guatemala, hvaðerþetta, matopetope, fasadabur, conicony, mãng cầu ta (na) sitaphal, sharifa, sitappalam, fruta-do-conde(fruta-pinha), ata, sitaphal, Katu Atha, srikaya, buah nona, pomme cannelle or pinyin. What then is sugar apple? Sugar apple (Annona squamosa L.) is one of the most important fruits among the long lists of medicinal and nutritive fruits. But apart from eating the sugar apple as a fruit, are you equally aware that this fruit goes beyond being a normal to a phenomenal fruit? Did you know that you can convert this fruit as your quick homemade herbal fruit for tackling several diseases? Right! Just a little bit of intro into what the sugar apple is all about before shedding more light on the reasons why you constantly need this fruit very close to you. Have you ever heard of, seen, eaten or used sugar apple? If yes, what spectacular things about this fruit do you actually know about? If no, just relax and read through this article.
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