Sapoti Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-10-29-sapoti/20051029_013_6618 2005-10-29-sapoti/20051029_023_2411 2005-10-29-sapoti/20051029_030_2033 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Last week I saw a guy selling fruit on the street, including one that I haven't seen before. It was round, about the size of a large apple, greenish-brown in color. I asked the guy what it was and he said it was "sapotí." I remembered that this was on of the fruits I was told about the same night I heard about [jatobá](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2005/10/27/jatoba). I asked how much, he said it was R$4 _each_. I thought this was pretty pricey and wondered if this included the gringo tax, but in the interest of science I got one. I also asked the guy what the fruit tasted like. He hesitated, then said it was sort of like chocolate. When I got back home I googled about sapotí, as I now always do since [the cashew incident](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2005/09/21/eating_the_cashew_fruit). I found that "sapoti" may refer to _manilkara zapota_, which is also known as "sapotilla" or "nispero" (not to be confused with [nespera](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2005/08/22/nespera)). However, while some of the sites describing manilkara zapota had a picture that matched the fruit that I had in front of me, others had a rather different one: elongated, with larger seeds. To make it even more confusing, a search for "chocolate fruit" took me to a description of a fruit with a similar name, "black sapote" (also known as "black persimmon"), which belonged to a different family (the genus is _diospyros digyna_) and looked nothing like my sapotí. Black sapote supposedly does actually taste like chocolate, my fruit didn't. I figured that it must be that at R$4 a piece the guy who was selling the fruit didn't actually get to taste it. While it was black sapote and not my "sapotilla" that was a relative of persimmon, it did roughly taste like persimmon - soft, juicy, slightly tarty. It was tasty and I would get it again, though probably not for R$4 a piece. Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel
