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Today, I will tell you about one of my sweet friends on this island. .. . the sugar apple. It is about the size of an apple, and has bumpy green skin. When the are ripe, the hard shell/skin will have some give because of the soft fruit beneath.
The fruit has a mild but very sweet taste that I love. If you leave them on the tree too long, like many things, the monkeys or birds will beat you to them. Best to pull them off when they are full size, and set them on your counter to ripen :P <3 There are a lot of seeds, and I have heard people say it is tedious to eat. It's another one of those thing (like guinep) that you eat when you have all the time in the world.
I was recently down in Cancun, Mexico, and of course I had to try the local fruit. I found a similar, but purple sugar apple. The skin was quite different, as it looked more like a turtle shell than bumps like the green one. The seeds and the arrangement of the fruit was quite similar, and the flesh became pink as it ripened. I tried to differentiate the two fruit using the internet, but I am still confused. One of these may be a custard apple. Regardless--the green one with the lumpy skin was much more sweet and delicious in my opinion--both were fully ripe.
Purple fruit on the left-sugar apple. Yellow-guava, front-star apple, brown-sapote mame, yellow and red-mango, dark purple-avocado, back-pineapple, right-veggies
