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Fruit is harvested when it is fully mature, firm, yellow-green, and with spines apart. The aroma volatiles of soursop consist of mainly esters (80%). It has more acidic flavor than cherimoya and resembles a mixture of pineapple and mango. Numerous black or dark brown seeds are embedded in a firm fleshy, acid-sweet, whitish pulp.

The fruit pulp consists of white fibrous juicy segments. Soursop fruit is derived from the fusion of many fruitlets. Unripe fruit is dark green that turns to light green when ripe. The fruit is prickly and has a sour and sweet flavor. Soursop fruits are normally ovate, heart-shaped, or conical.

Soursop has the largest fruit in the genus, weighing from 0.9 to 10 kg with an average weight of 4 kg. Trees are sensitive to low temperature below 5 ☌ and to frost. Soursop thrives well in the humid tropical and subtropical lowlands with warm winters. Soursop is a small perennial branched, quick-growing tree. Mexico is the main soursop producer in the Americas. Soursop is cultivated in many countries such as Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and SE Asia. This plant probably originated in the Antilles in the Caribbean. Paliyath, in Encyclopedia of Food and Health, 2016 Annona muricata L.Īnnona muricata, commonly known as graviola or soursop or guyabano, is another tropical fruit tree in the Annonaceae family.