Atis is sweet and taste like custard hence the name custard apple. The white flesh is segmented and each segment has black seed inside. It is related to soursop and the anonas. They have developed a hybrid of these fruits and call it Atemoya or Cherimoya.
The flesh can be made into ice cream or smoothie.
Atis is a good source of Vitamin C and B complex and has minerals like calcium and iron.
Tamarind or sampalok as we call it in the Philippines is a versatile fruit. We can make it into candy or jam, we can use it in cooking as a souring agent for the ever popular “sinigang” or you can eat it as it is ripe or raw. Also the leaves were used too in…
Atemoya is a hybrid of two types of annona fruits which are sugar apple and the cherimoya. The sugar apple is what we refer to in the Philippines as “atis” the word I believe came from the old Mexican word “Ate” which refers to sugar apple. The crossing of these two types of Annona fruits…
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