You may have had an unripe sapote...the ones I have had are sweeter than
dates imo....(obviously I am comparing the Sapote with fresh dates not the
more common & mostly sold product,.. dried dates....
     Here in Australia they also sell a "chocolate sapote"..sometimes
marketed as chocolate mousse fruit etc.
  Not sure how they got the chocolate taste , but they are very rich...I
seem to recall the sapot was a hybrid fruit bred/sourced from a fruit we
call here in Australia "custard apple"...which are also a very rich /filling
fruit.
   The Custard apple fruit may well be a relative newcomer in evolutionary
terms too (new types of exotic fruits has been big business for the past 25
years or more)..fwiw
Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lurisia Dale" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: white sapote fruit


> One sapote fruit has (according to the USDA at
> http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl -- type in "sapote"):
>
> A whopping 300 calories
> and 75g of carbohydrate
>
> Is this correct???
>
> I ate my first one today, a baseball-sized, sweet but mild tasting fruit
whose
> flesh houses numerous large seeds.
>
> I found the nutrition info shocking.  It is, for example, not nearly as
sweet as
> a date, and I'd guess I only ate about 3 stawberries-worth of edible flesh
by
> the time I'd finished it.  The fruit had a sticker which said "White
Sapote."
> Is the one listed by the USDA something different?  Has anyone else heard
about
> this fruit?
>
> L