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a fruit that tastes like brown sugar pears and bleeds the gum in your chewing history
means A tropical fruit with grainy, sweet, brown flesh from the Manilkara zapota tree, whose milky sap was once the base of chewing gum.
from From Spanish 'zapotilla,' a diminutive of 'zapote,' which itself comes from the Nahuatl 'tzapotl,' the Aztec word for soft, sweet fruits — so the name traveled from the mouths of the Aztecs through the Spanish into English, shrinking along the way into the 'little zapote.'
- chewing gum
- Its sap, chicle, was the original Chiclets base
- flavor profile
- Tastes like brown sugar, pear, and caramel
- unripe danger
- Loaded with mouth-numbing tannins until fully soft
- ancient ruins
- Maya built temples from its hard sapodilla wood
- slow grower
- Trees can fruit for over a century
sapodilla tree of mexico — native to southern mexico and central america, produces sweet brown fruit harvested for centuries by maya civilization
sapodilla in caribbean cuisine — staple fruit in dominican republic, puerto rico, and jamaica, called 'nispero' locally