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  Soursop
In the Dominican Republic, a soursop custard is enjoyed and a confection is made by cooking soursop pulp in sugar sirup with cinnamon and lemon peel.
Soursop ice cream is commonly frozen in refrigerator ice-cube trays in warm countries.
Immature soursops are cooked as vegetables or used in soup in Indonesia.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/soursop.html   (3399 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - Soursop seeds are toxic - Wednesday | May 28, 2003
In the Dominican Republic, a soursop custard is enjoyed and a confection is made by cooking soursop pulp in sugar syrup with cinnamon and lemon peel.
Soursop ice cream is made by mashing the pulp in water, letting it stand, then straining to remove fibrous material and seeds.
Immature soursops are cooked as vegetables or used in soup.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20030528/health/health3.html   (694 words)

  
 Woolworths - Ingredient Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The soursop is a large, green, spiny, heart shaped tropical fruit.
The soursop is a prickly custard-apple that is native to tropical America.
The soursop may be cut in half and the seeds removed.
www.woolworths.com.au /recipes/dispingredientdetails.asp?ingredientid=221   (101 words)

  
 Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
The etiology of pre-harvest deterioration of Soursop (Annona muricata) fruit in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria and the effects on its nutrient composition was investigated.
Soursop  (Annona miricata) belongs to the family Annonaceae, and it is wide spread in the tropics and frost–free subtropics of the world (Samson, 1980).
Hence the aim of the study was to investigate the etiology of pre-harvest deterioration of soursop fruits in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria, and the effects on its nutrient composition.
www.bioline.org.br /request?jb03004   (1404 words)

  
 Annona muricata
The soursop or guanabana, Annona muricata is the most tropical of all the annonas and is native to Tropical America.
Soursop juice is found in many local supermarkets and can be used for flavoring sherbets, ice creams, or for additions to tropical fruit punches.
Propagation of soursop is by seed or by grafting and budding.
www.quisqualis.com /04sopjoy.html   (450 words)

  
 Soursop
Immature soursops are often cooked, and eaten as a vegetable.
Soursop trees require much warmth and humidity, lots of water, and will be killed by temperatures below 32ûF/0ûC. In the tropics, soursops are grown from sea level to 1000m, particularly in humid regions where the tree grows particularly well.
Soursop's cannot tolerate standing water, and its roots are shallow, so it does not require a very deep soil base.
www.tradewindsfruit.com /soursop.htm   (475 words)

  
 Soursop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
the soursop is the largest of this fruit family sold in Australian markets, although the rollinia, which is larger, is also grown but is too fragile to consign to market.
Soursop can weigh up to one kilogram per fruit, the flesh is white compared to the yellow flesh of the custard apple, and the skin is spiky rather than knobbly.
Availability: Soursop is available the year round, and the total production in Australia would be around 30 tonnes.
www.agric.nsw.gov.au /Hort/Fmrs/Asian_veg/soursop.htm   (106 words)

  
 guyabano page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
tropical fruits and cited the soursop, the guava and passionfruit as the 3 most promising for the European market, because of their distinctive aromatic qualities and their suitability for processing in the form of preserved pulp, nectar and jelly.
Soursop seedlings are generally the best stock for propagation, though grafting onto custard apple (Annona reticulata), the mountain soursop (A. montana), or pond apple (A. glabra), is usually successful.
Grafts on sugar apple (A. squamosa) and cherimoya (A. cherimola) do not live for long, despite the fact that the soursop is a satisfactory rootstock for sugar apple in Ceylon and India.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/4059/guyabano.html   (1011 words)

  
 Whispering Soursop, Luck Hill, Tortola, British Virgin Islands: Vacation Villa Rental
Whispering Soursops is a peaceful & private 3 bedroom house with a swimming pool & Jacuzzi.
A more tranquil, peaceful and totally private spot is hard to find in the Caribbean these days, even though you are only a 12 minute drive away from busy Road Town or 30 minutes from the airport.
Soursop House is surrounded by attractive tropical gardens, patios, and a very large sundeck.
www.cvillas.com /bvi/soursops/index.html   (815 words)

  
 Jackfruit, Breadfruit, Osage Orange, Mulberry, Soursop, Sugar Apple, Cherimoya
Soft, ripe soursops are mostly used for ice creams and sherbets.
Soursop (Annona muricata), a large, spiny, cauliflorous fruit that may weigh up to 6 pounds (3 kg).
Soft, ripe soursops are mostly used for ice creams and sherbets, or the custard-like flesh can be eaten fresh (preferably chilled).
waynesword.palomar.edu /jackfr1.htm   (1923 words)

  
 Soursop, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Soursop Drink Description of this juice drink from a company which manufactures many fruit drinks.
Soursop has an image of this tree and fruit.
Soursop has a musky, juicy, acid to subacid flavor which is unique.
food.oregonstate.edu /a/soursop.html   (240 words)

  
 Integrated Pest Management Bibliography - Weeds
The effect of several herbicides was evaluated on the growth of soursop seedlings planted in polyethylene nursery bag.
The results show that all the herbicides applied in pre-emergence produced a good control of broad-leaf and gramineous weeds, although causing different degrees of toxicity to the soursop.
The fenoxaprop and haloxyfop controlled only gramineous weeds, while bentazon controlled only broadleaf weeds, but all three were selective to the soursop.
www.caisnet.org /bibliographies/ipm/weeds.htm   (2306 words)

  
 Soursop
Soursop is a tropical fruit native to the West Indies and northern South America, but now cultivated in Mexico, India, Southeast Asia, and Polynesia.
montana is the mountain soursop of the West Indies, and is a larger tree than the ordinary, but bears smaller and inferior fruit.
Because of the soft spines on the skin, the soursop is sometimes called the prickly custard apple.
www.innvista.com /health/foods/fruits/soursop.htm   (469 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The fruit of the soursop is about as large as a boy's head, green in color, and shaped somewhat like a strawberry.
The juice of the soursop in water, with a little sugar added, makes a delicious drink, something like lemonade flavored with strawberry sirup.
The wood of the soursop tree is elastic and its bark bitter.
www.lcc.gatech.edu /~strain/Stereoscope/bsoursop.html   (249 words)

  
 Arx Export Marketing - Soursop
Rich in Vitamin B Complex, Soursop is known for having many medicinal uses among the natives of the Amazon region.
Soursop is indigenous to Central America and the Peruvian Valley.
Soursop has a long tradition of use in the natural medicine.
www.arxweb.com.br /brazil4export/products.htm   (621 words)

  
 UVI CES - Pink mealybug - Soursop fruit with ovisacs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Soursop (Annona muricata) fruit nearly completely covered by PMB ovisacs.
On Annonas, the adult female PMB moves to the fruits to lay her eggs.
When the mealybug population is very high, oviposition will also take place on the tree trunk, particularly in cracks and crevices.
rps.uvi.edu /CES/coak-3-l.html   (55 words)

  
 Annona muricata - Harvesting and Postharvest Handling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The volatile compounds in soursop (Annona muricata L.) were obtained by a liquid-liquid continuous extraction procedure from the aqueous solution of blended soursop pulp and analysed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (MS).
The enzymic browning of soursops occurred duing maturation.
Umme A, Asbi B A, Salmah Y, Junainah A H and Jamilah B (1997) Characteristics of soursop natural puree and determination of optimum conditions for pasturization.
www.soton.ac.uk /~icuc/an-m-bib/an-m-hv2.htm   (781 words)

  
 Annona Muricatata L Soursop - Guanabana.
Soursop belongs to the genus annonaceae and comprises about 150 species.
It is a small tree of tropical South America, no more than 20 feet tall; the leaves are leathery, very dark and shiny green.
Soursop has an important place in traditional- and alternative medicine in Central- and South America.
www.tropilab.com /soursop.html   (292 words)

  
 soursop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Availability: The soursop has succeeded fairly well as a dooryard tree on the lower East coast of Florida but requires protection from cold winds and near-freezing temperatures.
Preparation and Use: Soursop is not used as a cooked product, but it freezes well and retains flavor.
When mixture is cool, add soursop puree and let stand in cool place until partially congealed.
sarasota.extension.ufl.edu /FCS/FlaFoodFare/soursop.htm   (517 words)

  
 Soursop - Annona muricata
The Soursop is native to the nothern parts of South America.
Immature soursops are cooked as vegetables, used in soup or roasted.
The leaves of the soursop are said to have many medicinal qualities see http://www.graviola.org/
www.daleysfruit.com.au /fruit%20pages/soursop.htm   (221 words)

  
 Cayman Net News: Backyard farmer has soursop harvest
About two years ago, George Ebanks planted the soursop tree in his back yard and in recent weeks has been reaping an abundance of sweet fruits.
As he said, he has been “living off of soursop juice” since harvest began.
Besides soursop, as a hobby, George also grows watermelon, pumpkin, bananas, calaloo, tomatoes and peppers.
www.caymannetnews.com /2004/05/663/harvest.shtml   (231 words)

  
 peculiar pops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I have no idea what a soursop is, but it sounds sour and looks like something Salvidor Dali would dream up for one of his paintings.
I've never seen a soursop in the store, but then I've never looked for one.
With a name like soursop, I was expecting something that would make me pucker for an hour non-stop.
www.exoticsoda.com /sop.html   (221 words)

  
 Soursop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The soursop or guanabana (Annona muricata L) is a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree native to the South American country of Brazil and a distant relative of the pawpaw.
The plant is grown as a commercial crop for a prickly green 12-inch long fruit which can weigh up to 5 lbs (2.5 kg.).
Description of soursop from Fruits of Warm Climates, (1987, ISBN 0961018410)
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/soursop   (236 words)

  
 IMPORT ALERT IA3103   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public.
***In*** February 1993, a sample of Iberia brand soursop nectar (guanabana) from the Dominican Republic was recalled (already on domestic status) due to the presence of the toxic guanabana seeds.
Soursop Paste/ 176 Nai Ba Trung St. 22H[][]04 District 1 4/23/01 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam FEI #1000429310 Lucky Shing Enterprise Co. Ltd.
www.fda.gov /ora/fiars/ora_import_ia3103.html   (295 words)

  
 39B-38 Adequation of conventional technology for the processing of umbu, umbu-caja and soursop jams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The objective of this research was to adequate conventional technologies for the processing of jams from fruits of the genus Spondias (umbu - Spondias tuberosa A. Cam.
and umbu-caja - Spondias lutea L. x Spondias tuberosa L.) and Annona (soursop - Annona muricata L.), fruits which are native or adapted to the north and northeastern regions of Brazil.
The fruits were analysed with respect to their pH (direct measurement using pHmeter), total soluble solids (direct reading using refractometer),total titratable acidity, total and reducing sugars, vitamins A and C and pectin (A.O.A.C., 1995).
ift.confex.com /ift/2000/techprogram/paper_4642.htm   (305 words)

  
 Mountain Soursop - Annona montana
Similar to the soursop, usually with highly scented but mediocre flavored flesh.
Fruit is softball sized with orange-yellow flesh, smaller and rounder than the soursop.
Mountain soursop's are much hardier than the soursop, tolerating brief temperature drops down to 24F when full grown.
www.tradewindsfruit.com /mountain_soursop.htm   (131 words)

  
 gardensilly news: Silly is back!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
soursop boy is the funniest boy in the world.
Pretty kick ass stuff man. Soursop must adopt a pimply teenager personality.
I've always known you were a creative genius from the time I saw you doodle during lectures.
www.eeshaun.com /2005/05/silly-is-back.htm   (232 words)

  
 Daleys Newsletter, Citrus, Gardening in Sandy Soils, Lakoocha, Artocarpus lakoocha, Tamarind, Tamarind indica, Peanut ...
The soursop is one such plant that has been recently re-introduced to me by a Braziallian women, living in Australia, who considers the soursop a miracle plant.
My previous experience with the Soursop would have led me to introduce it as a native to tropical America with a refreshing slightly acid juicy fruit.
The fruit assists with treated fever, diarrhea and as a stimulant for the formation of milk during breast feeding.
www.daleysfruit.com.au /newsletter/june2003.htm   (1992 words)

  
 Soursop - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Soursop or Guanabana (Annona muricata) is a broadleaf flowering evergreen tree native to the Caribbean, Central and South America, from Brazil north to the West Indies.
The Soursop is adapted to areas of high humidity and relatively warm winters, temperatures below 5°C will cause damage to leaves and small branches, and temperatures below 3°C can be fatal.
The Soursop will reportedly fruit as a container specimen, even in temperate climates if protected from cool temperatures.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Soursop   (323 words)

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