An indeterminate variety of tomato producing dimpled red fruits in elongated chains resembling grapes. They are juicy and very sweet and do best in a cool greenhouse but can succeed outside.
The sapodilla is a fruit which can be round or oval. Its thin skin is slightly rough and the flesh is dull, beige to terra cotta in colour and slightly granular with flat black seeds. Peel the skin away to reveal the apricot-coloured, honey-flavoured flesh. If it is eaten slightly under-ripe it may leave a residue of gum in the mouth. This can be dispelled by eating something fatty or wiping the lips with butter. One variety provides the gum for chewing gum.
The sapote is actually a different fruit from the black sapote, but black sapote is very often called sapote. The fruits of the sapote may be eaten raw and they are used for making ice creams and preserves as well as for flavouring sauces and in confectionary. In some parts of Mesoamerica, ground sapote seeds are used to give chocolate a bitter flavour.
