MAMMEE SAPOTA or Mammee or Sapota

a large, generally oval-shaped, fruit of the Sapodilla family. Good specimens average a pound and upwards in weight. The skin is coarse in texture and light coffee-colored and granulated in appearance; the flesh is salmon-crimson in color, a good deal like that of a soft muskmelon in texture, and enclosing one, two or three long, generally shiny-black, seeds.