Kompienh Reach Fruit

SANTOL FRUIT

Introduction - The Santol fruit tissue is mostly sub-acid or sour in nature. When the fruit is unripe, this tissue is even more sour. The Cambodian people like it even in sour condition and generally eaten with some salt. In the local markets of the Cambodia the Santol is always for sale in normal quantity. Santols are also used to make marmalade.

Santol fruit is round with juicy and as big as a big apple in sized. Inside the Santol fruit there is a white juicy tissue approximately 3 to 5 brown seeds. The seeds are up to 2 cm long in size.

Taste- The external pulp of the Santol fruit can be awfully inedible and harsh when the fruit is in an unripe but miraculously transforms itself into a sweet taste and tasty ripe specimen. Average fruits are bigger than a softball shape and the flesh and seeds were incredibly sweet/tart and gravely habit forming. The youthful fruits are candied. The ripen fruits have a vinous taste.

Scientific Name:Sandoricum koetjape

Santol-tree

SantolTree is severely a tropical Tree and do not grow over 1000 m. It is usually cultivated in Asian countries and its fruits are abundant in local markets during the season.

Santol itself is a very elegant by appearance and fast growing tree which can attain height up to 50 m. It also makes a good shade tree with large lime to deep green leaves and offering occasional contrasting red leaves. Leaves are typically trifoliate, but sometimes the number of leaflets may be more leaflets broadly the ovate to ovate rectangle, faintly fragrant. A very creative tree, it produces between 18,000 and 24,000 fruits per year. It is harvested by clamping the ripen fruits.

Santol Varieties

Yellow and Red

The various Santol are distinguished as botanical species rather than as cultivars. The following are those most utilized for food:

Yellow

yellow-santol

In yellow type santol fruit, the leaflets which are 15 cm long will turn yellow when old. The fruit has a thin peel and a typically sweet tissue, 6 -1.25 cm thick inside around the seeds. The fruit may not fall when it gets ripe.

Red

Red-santol

The leaflets of the red type santol fruits are 12 - 30 cm long, with velvet like skin, turning red when old. The flowers are greenish or red or ivory borne with 12 - 30 cm long panicles. The fruit has a thicker peel. The tissue is less and tastes sour. The fruit falls when it gets ripe.

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