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Pamela Attieh-Durrant's avatar

I always thought soursop and custard apple (which I love) are the same. Reading this has made be crave the fruit and now I am on a mission to try the elusive soursop for myself!

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Katharine's avatar

I think I have eaten soursop as Coração de Boi in Mozambique. Very delicious but I hadn't thought about the supply chain implications of eating it in the UK. Thank you for this insightful and beautifully written piece.

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krafoodlover's avatar

Great read! Now I’m really curious to try soursop!😋

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Jools Walker's avatar

My grandmother who was from Trinidad used to make soursop punch - this piece has made me crave a taste of that again, SO BADLY. I loved reading this 💚

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dorothy walker's avatar

I grew up partly in Fiji - soursop was available there but not that widely eaten. I can just remember the tough green prickly skin and its custardy-tart flavour.

I always wonder why we hardly see guavas in Europe - guava trees grew literally everywhere in Fiji so they must be very easy to cultivate in the right conditions. Guess down to ripeness windows and transportation

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Ang Mitten's avatar

I love everything about this. Inspired to go and hunt down my own soursop now!

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Millie Drew Food's avatar

Love this Giorgia!

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MAKING ROOM TO REMINISCE's avatar

My late Guyanese-born mum used to make her own soursop ice-cream, the taste of which I disliked as much as mango: never was a British-born Carib fruit-loving child!

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Liam Collens's avatar

Oh I grew up on soursop! It was a slice of nostalgia to read this.

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Nina's avatar

Please write a sequel on the sweetsop! That seems to be available all the time in Rye Lane, but is equally temperamental. Curious to know why.

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Jakernory's avatar

Love Soursop. Blue Mountain Peak in Harlesden often has it as well as Jamaican Mangoes and sometimes sweetsop (annona squamosa).

Whilst annona muricata (soursop) is hard to come by, anonna cherimola (cherimoya, with the smooth “scales” is relatively common in london stores.

Did I spy some stinktoe in the picture above?

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J R SCHULZ's avatar

Soursop currently at GSM supermarket, new cross road, £14.99/kg

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