Custard Apple
Photo by Arnold Gamboa
Custard Apple (Atis)
Atis, aside from being called custard apple is also known as sugar apple. But in the Philippines, it is only called atis, a much love fruit from Luzon to Visayas and Mindanao.
Atis, when ripe can be very soft. It takes minimal squeeze to prise apart the knobbly shell-like skin. Inside the fruit are little segments of white sweetly fragrant flesh covering black seeds/stone. The white flesh are very sweet and soft. You eat the flesh and spit out the seeds, daintily of course as mother would say.