Sour and Sweet Sop

These are unusual looking fruits, and they taste like a cross between a pear and a coconut. The fruit is full of black seeds coated in a white flesh – so you suck the fruit off the seeds – sort of like pomegranates.

We don’t have any of these type of trees, but our neighbor does and he says we can just start trees from seed and they’ll start producing in a couple of years. Lucky I always save all my seeds. I think I’ll start some in pots today.

The Jamaican sweetsop has just about 95 calories with fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, protein, amino acids, ash, phosphorus, calcium, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and ascorbic acid.

Inside a Sweet Sop

outside the fruit