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Extraordinary taste: miracle fruit tastes of chocolate
For people who keep their fingers off of chocolate because they're worried about getting fat, there's good news: the black Sapote, a fruit from Central America, tastes like chocolate pudding and has few calories. The problem: In this country, the delicious fruit is hard to come by.

Alternatives to sweets
Be it a cozy evening on the television, stress in the job, anger with friends or a partner: time and again we are plagued by the sweet hunger. Anyone who gives in to it too often will soon notice it on the hips. After all, sweets are known as fattening. Although there are some alternatives to sweets, they often do not taste as delicious as chocolate and co. But there is a solution for all people who like to snack and at the same time pay attention to their figure: the black sapote, a fruit from Central America.

If you love chocolate, but do not want to eat too much for character reasons, you should try black sapote. The fruit from Central America tastes like chocolate pudding and has few calories. (Image: sewcream / fotolia.com)

A fruitcake tasting of chocolate pudding
The Black Sapote (Diospyros digyna) is a chocolate-flavored fruit that originally grew in the humid tropical lowlands of Central America (Mexico and Guatemala).

Today it is grown throughout Central and South America, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia. Due to the taste, the fruit is sometimes referred to as "chocolate pudding fruit".

Convincing is not only the taste, but also the health benefits of the miracle fruit. The black sapote is rich in vitamin C, potassium, calcium and phosphorus and has few calories.

Simply spoon from the fruit bowl
The sapote is reminiscent of green apples or persimmon fruits. After picking usually takes three to four days to mature.

The brown pulp resembles plum jam and can easily be spooned out of the bowl or used as a spread.

It is also good with milk, orange juice or other fruits to delicious desserts, cakes, ice cream and drinks process. Information about this can be found in Internet videos.

In some regions, fermented fruits also produce alcoholic beverages. The leaves and bark of the tree are sometimes used as a home remedy for fever or skin diseases.

Hardly available in Germany
The big disadvantage of the fruit: In this country, it is as good as not available. Only in special fruit shops, which specialize in exotic fruits, is the black Sapote sometimes available.

Although people who have a green thumb could grow the tree themselves, not only would you need plenty of space and sunshine, but also a lot of patience.

Depending on the variety, it takes two to seven years for the trees to bear fruit, the city of Darwin (Australia) writes on its website. In the region of Darwin in the north of the country, the fruit is in season all year round.

The plant thrive there well and seem "few pests or diseases to have," they say. (Ad)