If you are from the Philippines you should know this fruit but if still not, this is for you too.
We locally call this fruit Atis and in English, it has a lot of names like sugar-apple, custard apple or sweetsop. This fruit is very popular in the Philippines especially in the provincial areas like in my place here.
In my experience, this fruit is very memorable to us together with my cousins and friends because it has been our source of snacks for free since Atis tress grows wildly and you can pick how much you like as long as it is not cultivated by landowners intentionally.
Can you believe that I am gathering this fruit when we're kids and exchanging it with my classmates with a piece of paper in my elementary days? Yes, we are traditionally doing that before, I don't know if until now.
So, I want to share with you also how to eat atis
Lately I went somewhere to deliver goods to my customers and found these two pieces of Atis from the tree I passed by near the roadside. I stopped there to pick them because I had been missing eating this fruit already.
- First, From the tree, you should pick the matured ones and let them ripe and it gonna take only a few days if you pick the right ones.
- When it's ripe already you can now taste the enjoyable Atis fruit, just open the fruit eat the flesh but have to spit the seeds inside it.
This is the total seeds inside the one I ate.
Atis is so sweet that you can have the fruit for dessert, its delightful taste and its health benefits surely you would like to have some try.😉
How about you, can you share with me about Atis fruit in your place?
Atis health benefits.
- May promote good digestion
- May prevent high blood pressure
- May benefit eye health
- May have an anti-cancer property
- May support immunity
- May fight inflammation
- May boost your mood
- High in antioxidants.