Sapodilla

Manilkara zapota

fruit

A round fruit with rough brown skin, from a tree of southern Mexico and Central America, with brown, grainy, very sweet flesh. 100 g provide 5 g of fibre.

Origin

Mexico and Central America

Season (United States)

all year round · grows in your region

Preparation

Spit out the seeds: hooked, they can catch in the throat, and they are not eaten.

Did you know?

The Maya tapped the tree's bark for a latex, chicle, an appetite-suppressing chew and the stuff of the balls for their ritual ball game — the ancestor of chewing gum.