The fruitBerry with numerous seeds black, ovoid and bright. It is a green infructescence, which at maturity takes a warmer color.

Result is a complex, formed by the union of the pistils with the receptacle, the type of so-called syncarpous. It does not open at maturity and has whitish flesh. If the egg is not fertilized the carpel corresponding tends not to develop, so that the fruit is deformed.

Is mainly consumed as fruit salads fresca.También is added to creams and sorbets and can be used to make jams, milkshakes and ice cream. The cherimoya is a food rich in vitamins and minerals.

Noted for its content of vitamins A and C and phosphorus and adequate calcio.Es for people with heart problems, liver or kidney.

variety
The cultivated varieties of hybrids come regularly, and some of them:

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Mammillata
tuberculata
Umbonata

Features
There are many kinds of custard apples, depending on the species of tree that produces it, it usually gives the name of the cherimoya fruit from the trees of the genus Anona.
The most important is the common custard apple, which is the fruit of Anona cherimola species.
It is a thick berry ovoid, slightly pyriform, green wrap, a little yellowing at maturity, covered with scaly swellings, obtuse, quite hardy, and their flesh is white, soft, a delicate fragrance and taste, in the pulp many black seeds are flattened, and ovoid crustacean.
These fruits can be eaten only when ripe, green are astringent.
It is one of the rare fruits of the family annonáceas reaching the western world markets. The remaining fruit, soursop (Annona muricata), papaya (Annona reticulata) and soursop (Annona squamosa) are very fragile and not sorportan transport.