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Mamey sapote, Pouteria sapota, is a tropical fruit tree in the Sapotaceae family, native to southern Mexico and parts of Central America. Its large, rough-skinned fruit contains dense salmon, orange, or reddish flesh with a sweet flavor often compared with pumpkin, sweet potato, and almond, surround...
Abiu, scientifically known as Pouteria caimito, is a tropical fruit tree in the sapodilla family, Sapotaceae, native to the Amazon region of South America. Its ripe fruit generally has smooth yellow skin and translucent white pulp with a soft, jellylike texture and sweet flavor. The pulp is commonly...
Lucuma, Pouteria lucuma, is an evergreen tree in the sapodilla family native to the Andean region of South America and cultivated for its fruit. The fruit has green skin and dry, starchy, yellow to orange flesh with a sweet flavor, and it has a long history of use in Peru predating the Inca Empire....
A West African fruit containing the glycoprotein miraculin, which binds to taste receptors and causes sour foods to taste sweet for up to an hour after consumption.
A tropical fruit native to the Caribbean and Central America, named for the star-shaped seed pattern visible when the purple or green fruit is cut crosswise.
A Central American fruit with dense, dry, egg-yolk-yellow flesh resembling hard-boiled egg yolk in texture, native from southern Mexico to Panama.
