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Healthy Food – Health Benefits of Sapota or Chickoo

Sapota is another name for the fruit known as ‘chickoo’ or ‘chiku’. Sapota is basically the tropical evergreen tree that bears this fruit. Sapota is delicious and calorie rich fruit belonging to the category of fruits like mango, banana and jack fruit. Other names of Sapota are nose berry, sapodilla plum, chickoo sapote etc. Sapota has its origin in the rain forests of Central America, particularly in Mexico, Belize. But it is easily available in India. Sapota fruit is round or oval-shaped berry. It measures around 10 centimeter in diameter and weighs about 150 grams. It has 2-5 big, black, shiny bean like seeds in the centre. The unripe fruit has a hard surface and white pulp. As the fruit ripens its flesh achieves a brown color. Sapota or Chickoo has a smooth and grainy texture with a sweet and musky flavour. Chickoo contains simple sugars like fructose and sucrose that restore energy and revitalize the body. Sapota offers large benefits for skin, hair and health. Let us