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Pouteria sapota

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Humid lowland woodland.

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Family: Sapotaceae
Height: 25 m / 83 ft
Sun
Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Sapote, Mamey Sapote Pouteria sapota native habitat is Humid lowland woodland.

Edible Uses

The ripe fruit is eaten raw, made into sherbets, ice cream, drinks etc and can also be dried. Unripe fruits are cooked as a vegetable. The pulp of the ripe fruit is salmon-red to reddish-brown in colour, it has a firm, finely granular texture and a rich, sweet almond-like flavour. The ovoid fruit varies in size from 8 - 20cm long. The fruit of most cultivars tends to weigh within the range of 500 - 1,000g, though they can weigh up to 2.7 kilos. Seeds. They have a flavour similar to bitter almonds. The ground up seeds are added to texate, made into a confection or mixed with cornmeal, sugar and cinnamon to make a nutritious beverage called pozol. The seed can be milled to prepare a bitter chocolate. The seed kernel yields 45 to 60% of a white, semi-solid, vaseline-like oil which is edible when freshly extracted and refined.

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