Today I planted a soursop tree that I grew from a seed exactly 200 days ago. We got this strain from Adam and it produces fiberless soursops. The fruit has an apple, strawberry and citrus flavor and its very thick and creamy. The fibery part of the fruit has a wet paper towel like texture which I’m not a big fan of, but this tree is fiberless one and sounds very promising!
Soursop is an Annonaceae which is in the same family as custard apple and rollinia. The entire tree… the fruit, leaves, bark and roots are medicinal. The other name for this tree is graviola and it has been used traditionally as medicine in tropical Africa and South America for a variety of ailments including cancers.
Over 212 phytochemical compounds have been found in extracts taken from different parts of the tree. Some of these compounds can hinder the development and spread of a variety of cancer cell lines, including breast, prostate, colorectal, lung, leukemia, renal, pancreatic, hepatic, oral, melanoma, cervical, and ovarian cancers.
We finally tempered some of the chocolate and it turned out really shiny with a hard snap. Not bad for our first attempt running the tempering machine! We also dipped some dehydrated white pineapples in chocolate too!
Originally posted on 2021-10-02, part of the daily planting journal behind Ha’a Chocolate’s food forest on Hawai’i Island.