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the fruit you eat by sucking pulp off seeds you must not swallow
means A round, yellowish tropical fruit from Southeast Asia with a thick rind and tart-sweet pulp clinging to large inedible seeds, eaten by sucking the soft flesh from each seed.
from The name comes from Tagalog "santol," the term used in the Philippines for this fruit (botanically Sandoricum koetjape, a member of the mahogany family). The English word simply borrows the local name, as so often happened when European traders and naturalists met fruits they had no word for and adopted whatever the people growing them already called it.
- swallow warning
- Seeds caused fatal intestinal perforations in rural cases
- two faces
- Sweet and sour cultivars sold as separate fruits
- cotton candy
- White pulp clings to seeds like fluffy fibers
- other names
- Called wild mangosteen and sandoricum across Asia
- whole-tree use
- Bark, leaves, and roots all enter folk medicine
santol tree — tropical fruit tree native to southeast asia, commonly grown in philippines, indonesia, and thailand for its sweet-sour apple-like fruits
santol fruit — round yellow-brown drupe with thin skin, eaten fresh or used in filipino desserts, jams, and traditional medicines