White sapote

Casimiroa edulis, C. tetrameria

fruit

A round fruit with thin green skin and creamy, melting, sweet flesh, from a tree of eastern Mexico and Central America — of the citrus family, no relation to the sapodilla.

Origin

Mexico and Central America

Season (United States)

all year round

Preparation

Spit out the seeds: they are toxic.

Did you know?

Its Nahuatl name, cochitzapotl, means “sleep sapote”: it was long believed to bring sleep, perhaps through a misreading of that name.