Sapodilla - Sawo

Sapodilla or Sawo in Indonesian is one of tropical fruits that I grew up with. I'm pretty lucky with many different fresh tropical fruits and vegetables which Asian stores have in Winnipeg. Sapodilla is the fruit of Manilkara zapota. It has an unique flavour, sweet malty flavour.

The unripe fruit is hard and contains high amounts of saponin, which has astringent properties similar to tannin, drying out the mouth.

Common names of Manilkara zapota:
� Chinese: ren xin guo
� English: beef apple, chicle, chico sapote, chicozapote, chiku, naseberry, noseberry, sapodilla, sapodilla plum
� French: n�fle d'am�rique, sapote, sapotier, sapotillier
� German: breiapfel, breiapfelbaum, kaugummibaum, sapote, sapotille, sapotillbaum
� Hindi: ???? chikoo
� Indonesian: sawo
� Japanese: sabojira, sapojira
� Khmer: lomut
� Konkani: ?????? chikku
� Korean: kkom na mu
� Lao: lamud
� Malay: chiku; In Kelantanese Malay, the fruit is called "sawo nilo" which is closer to Indonesian's name
� Marathi: ???? chiku, ?????? chikku
� Nepalese: gudalu, saapotaa
� Portuguese: sapoti, sapotizeiro
� Spanish: n�spero, sapote (Latin America), zapote, zapotillo
� Tagalog: chico
� Thai: lamut, lamut-farang
� Vietnamese: h�ng xi�m, hong xuan dinh, t�m lu'c, xab�ch�

Source: World Agroforestry Centre