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Sapote is an exotic and little known in our country fruit. Originally from Mexico, but except in Central America, sapote grows in Belize, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, the United States and others. It is also called "Caribbean apricot" because of its similar taste and composition.
Even the Aztecs and Mayans grew sapote and squeezed the oil from the stone, using it as an anti-inflammatory agent, and women rubbed it into their hair.
The tree sapote is evergreen and reaches a height of 15 meters. The uncultivated ones can reach up to 40 meters. The skin of the fruit is hairy and brown, slightly resembling the peel of a kiwi.
The inside of sapote is soft and orange. The stone is firm and relatively large against the background of the not so large fruit.
The fruit is so important to Indians in Mexico and Central Europe that they leave the tree intact when clearing for coffee plants.
Composition of sapote
Sapote is an excellent source of vitamins C, E and B6. It contains potassium, magnesium, beta carotene, a large amount of fiber, riboflavin, niacin, triterpene acid. Sapote owes its properties to squalane, which is contained in its oil.
Selection and storage of sapote
This exotic fruit is not distributed in our store network, but in specialty stores you can find the valuable sapote oil, which has a number of benefits. Organic sapote oil is relatively expensive - 50 ml costs about BGN 20.
Although not yet very popular, the fruit sapote has all the qualities to become one of the new superfruits and it is only a matter of time before it gains fame.
Cooking whispers
The locals usually eat it directly from the hand or scoop it with a spoonful of the halved fruit. In urban areas, marmalade is made from the pulp of sapote or frozen for sherbet. The pulp is also used as a filler in the preparation of guava cheese.
Benefits of sapote
Absolutely all parts of the sapote tree have a healing effect. The seeds of the fruit facilitate digestion, the oil has a diuretic effect, the decoction of the bark stops coughing. The juice from the bark of the tree removes warts and stops the growth of skin fungi.
In Mexico, sapote oil is often mixed with castor oil to strengthen the hair. Clinical trials conducted in 1970 confirmed that sapote oil was effective in hair loss caused by seborrheic dermatitis.
In Cuba, infusion of sapote seeds is used as a means of washing the eyes. In Mexico, the husks of the seeds are soaked in wine and the resulting infusion is used for kidney disease and rheumatism. The Aztecs greatly valued sapote because of its beneficial effects on people with epilepsy.
Whispers in cosmetics
Sapote owes its valuable qualities to the vegetable squalane contained in the oil extracted from its nut. This same ingredient is the basis of our familiar argan oil.
Squalane has an excellent antibacterial effect, strengthens in depth the stratum corneum of the epidermis and facilitates the penetration through the skin of other active ingredients.
The oil from sapote softens the skin and makes it elastic, limits water loss in the epidermis, gives a fresh and healthy look to hair and skin.
Sapote nut oil is not inferior in any way to argan oil in terms of its effect on hair. For this reason, there are a number of cosmetic companies that produce series for beautiful hair with an extract of the exotic fruit.
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