The white sapote, also known as the "custard apple of the tropics," is a tropical fruit that is often ignored. With its ...

Black sapote (Diospyros nigra), is a tropical fruit native to eastern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America from the species of persimmon. It is known by various other common names such as black ...

Creamy and very pleasing, black sapote is a treat on its own – and makes a very successful fruit loaf too I read a bittersweet autobiography by the outrageously talented Jeanette Winterson while ...

White sapote trees may have been trendy 50 years ago, but these days they are empty-lot plants, the kind of urban flora most often seen sprouting from scattered seed in some neglected patch of ...

I used to abhor the sullen approach of winter. Cold days and frigid nights, frost nipping at my tender exotic plants, many a dark day spent indoors under saturated skies and persistent mud clinging to ...

Recent phytochemical and nutraceutical evidence indicates that mamey sapote pulp and by-products contain carotenoids, phenolic compounds, and dietary fiber that are associated with antioxidant and ...