Star Apple

One of the comparatively slight fruits of the relatives Sapotaceae, the star apple Chrysophyllum cainito L, has acquired a reasonable variety of local names. The star apple tree is erect, 25 to 100 ft tall, with a short trunk to 3 ft thick, and a dense, broad crown, brown-hairy branchlets, and white, gummy latex.

The star apple tree is a tropical or near-tropical type range only up to 1,400 ft height in Jamaica.

Star apples must not be bite into. The skin and inedible. When breach a star apple, one should not agree to any of the acidic latex of the skin to make contact with the edible flesh. The ripe fruit, if at all possible chilled, may be just cut in half and the flesh spoon out, departure the seed cells and core.

An amalgamation of the chop flesh with that of mango, citrus, pineapple, other fruits and coconut water is freezing and serve as Jamaica Fruit Salad Ice. A good-looking way to serve the fruit is to cut around the middle completely through the rind and then, holding the fruit stem-end down, twisting the top quietly back and forth.

As this is complete, the fleshy tissue will be felt to free itself from the descending half of the rind, and the latter will pull absent, enchanting with it the superior fraction of the core.