When is the sugar apple ripe? When is the sugar apple ripe enough to eat?

Custard apple is also called Buddha's head fruit, sugar apple, and sweet pear. The fruit is round or conical, with a light green peel and scaly protrusions. The flesh is milky white, soft and slightly gelatinous, sweet and slightly sour, and aromatic. It melts in the mouth and has many seeds in the middle of the fruit. When does the sugar apple ripen? The following is a detailed introduction to the sugar apple, hoping that you will live a healthy and nutritious life.

Contents of this article

1. When is Custard Apple ripe?

2. When can you eat Custard Apple when it is ripe?

3. How to choose sugar apples

When is the Custard Apple ripe?

May-June.

Custard apple, also known as Buddha's head fruit, sugar apple, and sugar apple, matures in May and June. The fruit is round or conical, with a light green peel and scaly protrusions. The flesh is milky white, soft and slightly gelatinous, sweet, slightly sour, and aromatic. It melts in the mouth, and there are many seeds in the middle of the fruit.

Sugar-apple usually needs to become soft before it can be eaten. It is available on the market from May to June, which is the peak season for eating sugar-apple.

How ripe is the sugar apple before it can be eaten?

Soft feel

When the raw sugar-apple fruit is ripened to the point where it feels soft, and when you press the fruit with your hand it slightly indents but recovers immediately, the fruit is ready to eat. If the sugar-apple fruit is too soft and has no elasticity when pressed, it has been over-ripened.

The skin of raw sugar-apple is bright green, and when the sugar-apple is ripe, the skin becomes darker in color and part of the surface is black. Such sugar-apple tastes better. Also, be careful not to eat it if the flesh of the sugar-apple turns black.

How to choose when buying sugar apples

1. When you pinch the skin of a ripe sugar-apple, it feels soft and elastic, while the skin of an unripe sugar-apple feels hard.

2. The surface of a ripe sugar-apple is dark green and slightly black, with slightly yellow edges. The surface of an unripe sugar-apple is mostly light green.

3. A ripe sugar-apple will feel lighter in your hand, while an unripe sugar-apple will feel heavier when you weigh it.

4. The top of a ripe sugar-apple fruit will be slightly cracked, and juice will flow out when pressed with your hand, while an unripe sugar-apple fruit will not have cracks.