#Custard Apple and Soursop

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Understanding the Difference Between Custard Apple and Soursop for Kenyan Farmers

Today we are going to compare the difference between Custard Apple and Soursop. These fruits are known for their unique flavors and health benefits. We get lots of questions about whether soursop is the same as custard apple. We are going to investigate soursop and custard apple! There are several differences between them that we are going to explore for you. We are going to talk about…

[bouncyenvos]

found soursop juice :D

took myself out to breathe some fresh air so I'm not rotting at home👍

[dougdimmadodo]

Sweetsop (Annona squamosa)

Family: Sweetsop Family (Annonaceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Growing as a large bush or small tree, the Sweetsop is native to tropical regions of Central and South America but is now grown in warm, humid regions worldwide for its large, scaly-looking fruits. Sweetsop fruits (also known as Sugar Apples) are sweet, aromatic and nutritious, and their flesh is said to resemble custard in both texture and taste. A closely related species, the Soursop (Annona muricata) produces similar-looking fruits, though as the name suggests while still considered pleasant-tasting by many the flesh of the latter is considerably more sour.

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[haveyouatethisfruit]

if this blog has taught me anything, it's that there are way more fruits in Annonaceae than I realized. I want to try all these soursop and custard apple cousins!

God there are so many and I'd really love to try them all. I love how they all look similar but don't at the same time? I hope you get to try them!

[botaniqueer]

Plarch Plantness

Example members

Poaceae:

Corn

Wheat

Rice

Barley

Bamboo

Annonaceae

Soursop

Pawpaw

Custard Apple

Cherimoya

[morethansalad]

D I R E C T O R Y (pt. 7)

Fruits ~

Açai • Ackee • Apples • Apricots (Dried) • Banana • Blackberries • Blood Orange • Blueberries • Breadfruit • Cantaloupe • Clementines • Cranberries (Dried) • Cherries (Dried) • Currants • Custard Apple • Dates • Dragonfruit • Durian • Figs (Dried) • Finger Limes • Goji Berries • Grapefruit • Grapes • Guava • Guinep • Honeydew Melon • Jackfruit • Jujubes • Kiwi • Kumquats • Lingonberries • Lychee • Mamey Sapote • Mandarin Orange • Mango • Mangosteen • Mulberries (Dried) • Nectarines • Noni • Orange • Papaya • Passionfruit • Peaches • Pears • Persimmons • Pineapple • Plantains • Plums • Pomegranate • Quince • Raisins • Rambutan • Raspberries (Freeze-Dried) • Sapodilla • Soursop • Starfruit • Strawberries (Freeze-Dried) • Tamarind • Tangerines • Watermelon

[calicocritter]

the green spikey fruit with the white inside is called a guanabana in spanish! or soursop/custard apple in English :)

I LOVE YOU FOR ANSWERING THIS

[fahmeenaodetta]

Custard Apples

I thought of custard apples today, which was very surprising because I never had the fruit (I don't believe I tried or tasted it in the past). I believe I heard about the apple a long, long time ago. I found some interesting information on the fruit on Google. Three things I wanted to highlight: the peeled fruit (the inside) made me think of the soursop, the fruit is native to South America and the Caribbean, and it is high in potassium.

(Link: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cherimoya)

[antonia-gergely]

Tavares Strachan's The First Supper (Galaxy Black) at the Royal Academy of Art, London

"This sculpture celebrates the act of sharing a meal. Twelve historically significant activists, writers, musicians, explorers and political leaders from the continent of Africa and its diasporas are gathered around a table laden with rice, breadfruit, catfish, chicken, cocoa, custard apple and soursop. Although these people comé from very different eras and backgrounds and hold different world views, Strachan imagines them coming together for physical and intellectual nourishment. Seated below

"Strachan's self-portrait is a thylacine, a species now extinct. From left to right:

Tavares Strachan (b, 1979)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005):-Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

Zumbi dos Palmares (1655-1695).

Haile Selassie (1892-1975)

Mary Seacole (1805-1881):

Matthew Henson (1866-1955)

Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)

King Tubby (1941-1989)

Derek. Walcott (1930-2017)

Robert Henry Lawrence (1935-1967)"

- from plaque beside sculpture

[waterclover]

Pawpaws are in the Magnolia order and the Custard-apple family, so probably the closest most people can get to the soft sweet flavor are soursop and cherimoya

The day before yesterday I got to try a ripe pawpaw for the first time.

Someone else was supposed to come in at the center, but I was in the mood to be alone, so I fucked off into the woods at the earliest available opportunity, looking to collect more hickory nuts.

I hiked about two miles down the trail, seeking to find a little-used path as far from the center as I could reasonably make it. I was five or ten minutes down a fork in the path heading down a valley when I unexpectedly smelled something familiar: the scent of ripe pawpaws. I only knew that scent from having come upon a rotten one several days back on the trail.

I had seen pawpaw trees on the way up, but I looked around and saw nothing. I indulged a beast-like impulse: I sniffed. I turned until I was facing the direction of the scent and moved towards it. And I saw, about 50 feet away down the hillside below...a pawpaw grove

Some interesting facts about pawpaws:

The pawpaw is the largest fruit native to North America, known for its "tropical" flavor. Despite being reputed to be delicious, it is not found in grocery stores due to the fruits being far too delicate to ship without spoiling. A few people farm them, but otherwise the only way to get one is to come upon one growing wild, which is rare, because the opossums love them.

Pawpaw trees are hard to grow and take 10-15 years to produce fruit, but you can see wild ones in mature and well managed woods of Kentucky. They are small, barely trees, only about 15-20 feet tall, with trunks only a bit bigger around than a circle you can make with your index finger and thumb. They almost always grow in clonal colonies, groups of many trees that are all clones of each other due to being propagated from the roots of existing trees. They are also strictly understory trees, growing in the shade of much larger trees.

Now, an interesting fact about Eastern Kentucky: At the fringe of Appalachia, and even into parts of the Outer Bluegrass, the terrain frequently turns into very steep rolling hills.

It's hard to notice if you are in more cultivated areas that have been leveled out more, but in wilder parts you can seldom just casually walk in a straight line through the woods. Unless you are following the contour of the hills, you are either sliding and gripping saplings to slow your descent or you are climbing on all fours.

Such was the hill below me, descending at roughly a fifty-degree angle into the pawpaw grove.

I was going to get me some fucking pawpaws.

I climb down the hill by a combination of scooting, sliding, and scrabbling. After a few minutes of struggle I am standing in the pawpaw grove, alone, scanning the branches with my eyes.

The ground is littered everywhere with pawpaws, some very rotten. I see only two or three fruits remaining in the trees, and I walk around giving each tree a good shake, thinking to myself about how this is certainly an experience shared by millions of years' worth of primate ancestors before me.

After nearly ten minutes of (literally) fruitless tree-shaking, I start to eye the fallen pawpaws on the ground around me.

Some of them are perfectly fine-looking. The skin hasn't even been broken into. I pick one up.

It is very soft, but not squishy like something rotten. It is about as long as my index finger (my hands are small) and oblong. Its smooth skin is pale green and spotted with brown like a very ripe banana. I tear the skin back and give the creamy orange insides a test lick.

Friends.

It was transcendent.

Imagine the most perfect ripe mango, but with a flavor that is more banana-like, mellow and creamy and mild instead of tangy. The texture is perfectly smooth and soft unlike any other fruit. You can lick it and it will just melt in your mouth.

I am autistic and a very picky eater due to the difficult textures of many foods, and this fruit has the perfect texture. Mangos are already one of my favorite foods and this is somehow even better. I remember, deliriously, that farmers are seeking to improve pawpaws for possible commercial production, and it seems like the height of foolishness there in the pawpaw grove. There is no possible way wild pawpaws could be improved. All of creation is tainted by the Fall of Man, except for fucking pawpaws, because they are beyond the earthly tier of fruits.

I lick it like a dog going crazy on a Kong full of peanut butter until it falls apart in my hands and start scanning the ground for another.

They are all perfectly ripe and mostly untouched by bugs or creatures. I start just squishing them in my hands and licking the creamy insides. I am just planting my face in these fruits like some kind of animal. My face and hands are covered in pawpaw squish.

I go through like ten of them before returning to my senses. I've been thoughtlessly wiping my hands on my pants, and they are now more soiled than the clothes of the messiest toddler. I feel primal and connected to my ancestors. I have truly earned my Primate Card.

My mom said in the car that I smelled very strongly of something (pawpaws) so it's safe to say that literally every person I passed on the way back down the trail got a good whiff too, and likely connected it to the Pawpaw Squish that was basically all over me.

Regrets: None

[adultherbalplus]

SOURSOP FOR CANCER TREATMENT Soursop is a very effective remedy for cancer. Cancer may be anywhere in the body, the remedy is Soursop. It helps treat cancer more effectively than Chemotherapy. It kills only the cancer cells, not the healthy cells. Hence, no hair fall or any other deterioration in health. It may be used as the main remedy or it may be used in conjunction with Chemotherapy. It has very strong Anticancer and Antitumor properties. It kills cancer cells naturally without any side effects as associated with Chemotherapy. Soursop Fruit can be eaten to prevent or treat cancer. Fresh soursop juice can also be used for this purpose. Soursop tea is also a way to fight against cancer. Chop some fresh stems and leaves of Soursop. Boil them in 1 liter water until water is reduced to half. Strain. Drink 100 ml twice a day. You may add Honey. Please nite that Custard Apple are not same with soursop Custard Apples are indigenous fruits. Most people cannot tell the difference..soursop is a little sour and the leaves are anti cancerous...custard apples are very very sweet. Have you used soursop fruit or leaf to treat any health challenges? Pls share your experience #soursop #cancerSoursop (at Adultherbalplus Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrPkGgmoZkW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bronva]

Guide to gastronomic Grenada: Why this Caribbean island is a paradise for foodies

Guide to gastronomic Grenada: Why this Caribbean island is a paradise for foodies

View from Fort George on the leafy Caribbean island of Grenada (Picture: Dietmar Denger) The simple wooden table in front of me is groaning with produce. Some, I’m familiar with – mango, papaya, sweet potato, jackfruit – and some I’m not – breadnut (similar to a chestnut), soursop (a custard apple) and mamey (a fleshy red fruit). There are aromatic sticks of cinnamon, knobbly hunks of ginger,…

[haveyouatethisfruit]

African Custard Apple

(annona senegalensis)

Also known as wild custard apple, wild soursop, abo ibobo, sunkungo or dorgot

Not to be confused with cherimoya or atemoya

[wealthypioneers]

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Veronica Ryan, Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae), and Soursop (Annonaceae), 2021. Photo: Andy Keate.

Marble and bronze.

Hackney Windrush Art Commission in London.

Heather Phillipson, THE END, 2021. Photo: © David Parry PA Wire

9.4 metres, 9 tonnes weight