When is the ripening time of sugar apple?

Sugar apple is a fruit that many people love to eat, but it is not available all year round, so when does sugar apple ripen? And what ways are there to eat it?

1. When does sugar apple ripen?

The ripening time of sugar apple is not exactly the same in different producing areas. It generally ripens and comes to market from June to November each year. In China, the main sugar apple growing areas include Fujian, Taiwan, China, Zhejiang, Hainan, Jiangxi and others.

Sugar apple is a small deciduous tree, 3-5 m tall; the bark is thin, grayish white, and much branched.

Flowers are solitary or in clusters of 2-4 at the branch tips or opposite the leaves, about 2 cm long, greenish yellow, and drooping.

Flower buds are lanceolate; sepals are triangular, slightly hairy. The outer whorl of petals is narrow and thick, fleshy, oblong, acute at the apex, slightly hairy, and arranged in valvate fashion.

The inner whorl of petals is very small, reduced to scale-like, and slightly hairy; stamens are oblong, with a broad connective and a nearly truncate apex; carpels are oblong, hairless, the stigma is ovate-lanceolate, and each carpel has 1 ovule.

2. What ways are there to eat sugar apple?

1. Eaten raw: it can be peeled and eaten directly, or made into juice for drinking;

2. Fried rice: sugar apple can also be stir-fried with ingredients such as shrimp and sausage to make fried rice, which is also a dish with a unique flavor;

3. It can also be cut into pieces and made into all kinds of iced drinks.

3. Nutritional components of sugar apple

1. 100 grams of sugar apple pulp contains 8.36 grams of water and 18.0%-26% soluble solids;

2. It also contains 0.14%-0.3% fat, 23.9% carbohydrates, and 0.6%-0.7% minerals;

3. Sugar apple is also very sweet. 100 grams of sugar apple pulp contains 15.3%-18.3% total sugar, and eating it in moderation can supplement sugar.