Virtually every person knows the taste of green tea with sausep, but very few people know what tastes and how it looks like an exotic fruit with the same name.
Sausep, also called the sifted tree and the annona needle, is an evergreen tree growing to 9 meters in height. A distinctive feature of the sausep plant are wide glossy two-colored leaves: dark green outside and light green inside, having a strong aroma, beautiful conical flowers that grow not only on branches, but all over the trunk, and similar to prickly apples fruits.
In this article I will tell you about the benefits of sausage fruit and its uses.
Fruit sausep: description
The size of the sour cream apple is very large: some specimens can reach a weight of 4.5 to 7 kg and can be up to 35 cm in length and 15 cm in width. They grow in different shapes, they are found both oval and similar to the heart. Before full ripening, the skin of the fetus is dark green, and as it ripens, it turns yellow. The fully ripened fruit has a creamy white dense flesh, similar to cotton wool and tastes like pineapple. The whole pulp is covered with inedible dark seeds.
This unusual fruit is very rich in useful substances for the human body: proteins, iron, carbohydrates, fructose, calcium, folic acid, phosphorus, vitamins C, B1 and B2.
Fruit sausep - application
In countries where sausep trees are not cultivated, its fruits are mostly used fresh and used for desserts and cocktails, mixing with brandy and various spices.
And in the countries of natural growth of the sour apple, its fruits are used by local residents both in cooking and in medicine.
Use in cooking:
- for making a refreshing drink, mix freshly squeezed juice with milk and sugar;
- to obtain a low-alcohol beverage, like cider , by fermenting the juice;
- for the production of ice cream, syrup, sorbet, cakes, jelly.
It should also be noted the use of juice and fruit pulp sausep for flavoring tea with the same name, the popularity of which is growing around the world. When creating a real black or green sausep, the process of impregnating the juice of tea leaves of Ceylon varieties, squeezed from the fruit, is used.
Use in medicine:
- In the fight against pediculosis, oil, squeezed from fruit seeds, is used;
- for the treatment of the kidneys and for their purification (diuretic effect) the juice of already well ripening fruits is applied;
- when dysentery is fed a sick porridge from finely chopped pulp of unripe fruit;
- when fighting overweight;
- for the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract: restoring the intestinal flora, regulating the secretion of gastric juice;
- improves liver function;
- to lower blood pressure drink juice, squeezed from sausep;
- It is used as a tonic drink when the body is restored.
There is an opinion that sausep contains substances capable of killing cancer cells, but this statement has not been clinically confirmed.
Sausup: how to grow?
The fruit of sausep badly tolerates transportation, so it can be met very rarely. The way out of this situation could be growing it with us. But since all the countries where the fruit sausep grows (Bermuda and Bahamas, South Mexico, Peru, Argentina, India, South China, Australia and the Pacific islands) grows in a tropical climate, it is very difficult to grow it in the territory of Europe. This tree in European countries can be found only in botanical gardens.