The atemoya is a rather hard to find fruit
It's what you get when you cross a cherimoya with a sugar apple.
Atemoyas are green.
This one is red.
This thing is so crazy looking.
It's so rare, and the coolest thing about it is that if you set this on fire
it will hatch and a little baby dragon will pop out.
My couches are torn up enough as it is
thanks to this little creature that I have here, so I'm not gonna do that.
Instead, I'm going to eat it.
This by the way was sent to me by miamifruit.org.
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Keep in mind, these things are quite expensive
and it does makes sense. These are extremely rare.
So this is more something that you're going to want to try if you are a collector
of fruits either like me where you like to go around and try different fruits or
if you're someone who likes to grow them.
Because I believe the seeds on this are viable
so you can buy this and then eat it which is a rare experience and then
you get to plant your own.
So that's kind of cool but yeah, maybe not for everybody but if you want to do
a little splurging check out the link in the description below.
I was trying to find some fun facts about this online and honestly it's so rare
it's hard to find information about it.
I believe that this is a specially crafted atemoya.
Somebody took different cultivars of Annona fruit
and crossed them together to create this.
I saw a couple of references online saying that this is actually not an Atemoya
at all. That it is something called a "Temoylata" which is what you get when you cross
an atemoya with a custard apple.
So I'm not 100% sure what this is. If you know more about it put it
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Alright, it is almost a shame to cut this thing open, it looks so cool.
The little black spots on it by the way are natural. It's supposed to do that.
When I first got it, it did not have any black markings on it and I let it ripen
which means you get it to be soft kind of like how'd you want an avocado to be.
So you wait until it gets to that point then you give it like another day or two
and in that time it will get these little dark spots on it.
The insides will be perfectly fine.
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So this a little bit "coconutty" and a little bit "yoghurty".
It reminds me a little bit of the custard apple.
That one tasted like coconut yoghurt so it has a little bit
of that sort of smell to it.
[Upbeat music]
The flavour on this is good
but it is mild.
It has the same flavour as a green atemoya
so that's like a combination of like tropical sort of flavours.
A little bit of coconut, a little bit of banana, maybe a little of mango
also kind of like a pear taste. It has those flavours, but dialed down.
It's like half as flavourful as a green atemoya.
What's nice about it though is it does have a creamy flavour.
It's almost like milky or "yoghurty".
The sweetness on this is pretty low also. I'd say it's like a four out of ten
a little bit less sweet than an apple.
There is no tartness there, there normally isn't.
I should also point out that a lot of times, the names of Annona fruits get
mixed up.
The words custard apple, sugar apple, sweet sop, Annona, atis, sitafal;
there are so many different names for different types of Annona fruit and people
will use one of those names to refer to all of them, like a blanket term for all
of them. So there is a lot of confusion with those terms.
I guess because the different fruits in that genus do look a little bit like each
other.
It's easy to kind of be like well, I think that's just a sugar apple but it's like
a bigger one.
The case of this one, one thing that is nice is that it is distinguishable.
The fact that this thing is red really makes this stand out.
You don't really have that problem so much.
Here's the seed by the way. It is different looking than the green
atemoya seeds. Those ones are darker in colour usually and they're a little bit
soft too. As I've been eating that I actually bit though one accidentally
and the amount of seeds that you get in one of these is like, average.
Do you know sugar apples are sometimes really really seedy where you are just
like spitting out seeds the entire time and it's hard to eat them.
With this one, I think it's maybe a little more seedy than green atemoyas that I've
had but not terribly. It's still pretty easy to dodge those when you're eating it.
So I think that's about it for the red atemoya. This may not be the most
flavourful of Annona fruits but it's definitely one of the coolest looking ones
I mean it looks like a dragon egg. It's really really nifty. This is the sort of
thing that if you grow plants, having a tree like this in your yard would
definitely get attention. If you're somebody who cooks a lot, putting this
on a platter, it looks crazy. If you're someone like me who likes to just eat
a bunch of weird things, this one's weird.
So definitely a very very weird-looking Annona fruit
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