I don't believe all the hype about Sour Sop being a cure for cancer. However, both my wife andI love the taste of Sour Sop. Lets be clear first - Sour Sop is not the same as Custard apple.They may come from the same family as the Custard apple and Bullsheart, but they are definitely a distinct species. Soursop has the shape of a bull's heart, but is green, even when ripe, and is covered by softbarbs. The taste as the name implies is sweet with a sourish tang. Delicious, at least to me.Perhaps an acquired taste. I found the fruit in Mapusa market this past Friday, and the ladyquoted a price of Rs. 800/- ! The hype about being a cancer cure probably inflated the price. About 6 years ago, while visiting the Dar es Salaam Institute (formerly Goan Institute) inDar es Salaam, Tanzania, I found a vendor selling Sour Sop from a cart. I bought two andenjoyed the fruit immensely. So I saved the seeds and brought them to Goa where I planted the seeds on my property. I must have had close to a hundred saplings in a few months. In the meantime, the word was going around about Sour Sop being a super fruit with cancerfighting properties. I planted perhaps a dozen saplings on my property which have now growninto young trees, some of which are bearing fruit. I gave away the saplings to anyone who asked. The progeny of those first fruits are probably all over Goa by now. One can learn more about the Sour Sop by searching on the Internet.
