Friday, July 10, 2009

Kedondong







Spondias dulcis or the Tahitian apple, also known as the Otaheite apple, (hence its alternative binomial, Spondias cytherea, Malay Apple), or just Golden apple, is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. In Trinidad and Tobago it is called Pommecythere.

The fruit may be eaten raw; the flesh is crunchy and a little sour. In Indonesia and Malaysia, it is eaten with shrimp paste (a thick black salty-sweet sauce, called 'hayko' in Chinese Southern Min dialect). It occurs as an ingredient in rojak. It may also be juiced, and goes then under the popular name umbra juice in Malaysia. It is a Jamacian fruit. The fruit is pear shaped with a dark red skin and white flesh,sometimes it is seedless.

Vernacular names :-

ඇඹරැල්ලා (Ambarella) (Sinhalese)
'ambarella' (Dutch)
'buah kedondong' (Malay)
'Cajá-Manga' (Brazilian Portuguese)
'cóc' (Vietnamese)
'évi' (Réunion)
'Goldpflaume' (German)
'gway' (Burmese)
'hevi' (Philippines)
'hog plum'
'june plum' (Jamaica)
'Sugar Apple (St. Lucia)
'kedondong' (Indonesian)
'makok farang' (Thai)
'mokah' (Cambodian)
'naos' (Bislama)
'prune Cythère, pomme Cythère' (French)[2]
'vi' (Tongan)3
'Pomarosa" (Puerto Rico)

1 comment:

Jess Carreon said...

hi! what is the spice that they usually sprinkle on it? we bought from a sidewalk before. The fruits were sliced and the seller sprinkled sugar and something on them. What is that spice that is mixed with sugaR?