See Raw Food Eater Matt Monarch of www.mattmonarch.blogspot.com Angela Stokes of www.rawreform.com in this spectacular episode Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes experience fresh lucuma fruit in Vilcabamba Ecuador and we have a special visitor Mike Adams. Enjoy another ‘The Raw Food World’ episode.
2:49 pm on May 12th, 2010
The lucuma is 100% peruvian…lucuma is not mamey….there are different fruits, different flavors.
3:05 pm on May 12th, 2010
It’s Quararibea Cordata – Chupa Chupa / South American Sapote. Hatrack tree. I have an encyclopedia page dedicated to it on my website. It is delicious! It’s in the Malvaceae family, not even related to the Lucuma or Mamey (Pouteria Sapota). The common name “sapote” means ’soft edible fruit.’
3:54 pm on May 12th, 2010
It’s Quararibea Cordata – Chupa Chupa / South American Sapote. Hatrack tree. I have an encyclopedia page dedicated to it on my website. It is delicious! It’s in the Malvaceae family, not even related to the Lucuma or Mamey (Pouteria Sapota). The common name “sapote” means ’soft edible fruit.’
3:59 pm on May 12th, 2010
that’s a zapote. it’s not a mamey.
4:17 pm on May 12th, 2010
Please do…
4:36 pm on May 12th, 2010
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5:12 pm on May 12th, 2010
no, what they showed is in fact a lucuma fruit. the mamey is a long/ovular fruit.
6:01 pm on May 12th, 2010
Hi,
You do a nice job. I would like to avoid missunderstandings. The fruit you introduce in this nice video is Mamey. Lucuma is another much dryern flavored fruit having a thin skin. Local producers are doing much effort to introdude Lucuma to the world, so please amend your video to avoid confusion.
Anyway, Mamey is very good. Young men say young women that they “taste like a mamey” to say … what you understood.
Thanks.
6:17 pm on May 12th, 2010
Starting raw diet. Why am I gaining weight and my body is freaking out. Feel every cell in my body going what are you doing?
6:39 pm on May 12th, 2010
Update, all the seeds I planted sprouted almost all at the same time, around 20 days.
7:14 pm on May 12th, 2010
Hi there,
I have never seen this video program before, but it looks great. Unfortunately, as the others noted, the fruit is a Matisia (Quararibea cordata now renamed Matisia cordata) The tree has cordately shaped leaves, hence the name. I have been growing it on my farm in Queensland for 25 years. It’s a lovely fruit but I don’t think anybody has extracted anything from it. Good effort though. Just remember to check facts with people who know.
David
7:20 pm on May 12th, 2010
It is difficult to keep up with changes in latin nomenclature. I’m going by Whitmans’ 2002 book.
I’m not surprised they are many different species sharing a common name. There are dozens of pouteria fruits.
8:09 pm on May 12th, 2010
abyssquick: The modern scientific name is “Pouteria lucuma”, formerly called “Lucuma obovata”. The “Pouteria obovata”, also called sometimes lucuma (or eggfruit as “Poutera campechiana”, also a different plant) is another one.
But this plant you show is not a lucuma, and it´s wrong to call it a lucuma. It is a “Quararibea cordata”, formerly called “Matisia cordata”, and known as chupa-chupa, or sapote (like many other fruits as you said), it depends on the place you are…
8:10 pm on May 12th, 2010
Though pomologists (per taxonomy) file Lucuma under ‘Pouteria Obovata.” I have only see “pouteria lucuma” on marketed products.
“Sapote” is a generic title, meaning roughly “large soft fruit.” For instance, White Sapote, Black Sapote, Chico Sapote, Mamey Sapote, South American Sapote, and Sun Sapote– these are all very distinct fruit bearing species, not even in the same genus (or family in most cases). Lucuma is a type of ’sapote,’ of which there are dozens.
8:35 pm on May 12th, 2010
Yes, those who disagree are right. This is not a lucuma fruit, nor a lucuma tree (Pouteria lucuma). It´s a sapote (there are different plants with this name), or chupa-chupa (Quararibea cordata).
Delicious both, but not the same…
9:08 pm on May 12th, 2010
These fruits are collected from the jungle. Rarely grown in plantations. They are very prolific. No spray.
10:08 pm on May 12th, 2010
Chupa-Chupa is also called “South American sapote.” The name-chupa-chupa – “suck-suck” comes from the fact that the fruit can be densely fiberous, and it often needs to be sucked on to be enjoyed. It has a velvety exterior and a rich orange interior with “mango-melon” flavor.
Lucuma has a smooth surface, is deep green & vaguely acorn shaped. It grows on small stout trees, in the highlands. Like the egg fruit, it can be moist or dry-ish depending on the variety.
10:32 pm on May 12th, 2010
I know this because I am very familiar with Central American species, and have grown both myself. I’d recognize / distinguish them in a heartbeat.
10:41 pm on May 12th, 2010
I hate to break it to you Matt- that is most certainly NOT a lucuma fruit. Nor a lucuma tree!
What you have there is a chupa-chupa fruit and it’s seedling (matisia cordata / quararibea cordata). The fruit is also called matisia. It is in the malvaceae clan. “Hatrack tree”, very symmetrical, with large roundish leaves.
Lucuma is in the pouteria genus. Close relative of the mamey and egg fruit. Lucuma is slow growing and has much smaller elongated leaves. Entirely different family of trees.
11:09 pm on May 12th, 2010
The Lucuma can grow in hotter more tropical climates, i have seen them here in the Caribbean, I tried one, and liked it, the fruit is kind of “dry” hard to explain, but taste great. I planted some seeds from the one I ate.
11:55 pm on May 12th, 2010
It’s the perfect weather, subtropical, 1200 masl, quite sunny most of the year, guess that was filmed during the wet season. It’s not as hot as on the Pacific coast or amazon basin because of the altitud, 1200 masl.
12:47 am on May 13th, 2010
It’s the perfect weather, subtropical, 1200 masl, quite sunny most of the year, guess that was filmed during the wet season.
1:15 am on May 13th, 2010
i am building a bathtub underneath my private water spring haha
2:10 am on May 13th, 2010
Very interesting, thank you. I am wondering about the weather there, as it often looks overcast. But I am sure there must be alot of sunshine too.
2:23 am on May 13th, 2010
they do not spray chemicals on the plants or fruits all is very organic. Unlike in the USA.