Tropical and subtropical fruits (2+1)

Importance and Uses

• Sapota is good source of sugars, protein, fat, fiber and minerals (Ca, P, Fe).
• Sapota is a delicious dessert fruit.
• The latex from stems and immature fruits is used in the preparation of chewing gum.
• Fruits can be dried and made into nutritious powder which can be used in Milk shakes and sweets.
  
• In countries (Indonesia) Young leafy shoots are used in salads or as vegetable.
  
• Sapota is supposed to be medicinal also seeds as diuretic, bark as tonic, antipyretic, febrifuge and in curing biliousness and febrile attacks.