Sapota / Chikoo

This Kalipatti Sapota is the leading variety of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Northern Karnataka. Fruits are sometimes oval shaped and sometimes round as well, less seeded with a sweet mellow flesh of excellent quality and mild flavour. This particular fruit comes from organic farms in Hampi.  And they are one of HB's Favourites

Have you recently eaten sapota / chikoo in its entirety (without peeling off the skin)? Well many of our customers have. That for us tells us how good and true tasting our sapotas are when compared to the chemical ones. Most of our sapotas even though may feel rock hard, will definitely ripen (unless plucked early from the tree), this is again another differentiation from the conventional sapotas.

We typically get 2 varieties from our associated farms around Bangalore. Round (cricket ball) or oval (kali path). Since the oval ones are more tastier, unfortunately it also happens to be less in supply. 

Will be in semi-ripe stage when you receive it and will ripen in 2-3 days (put it in a brown bag or cover for faster natural ripening)

Did you know: We are told that the oval shaped ones are the true traditional sapotas vs the round, now who would have thought that!

Sapota Harvesting

Regarding Sapotas Selective Harvesting:  We have 25 - 30 feet height trees and we climb around 20 to 30 times each tree in a season.  We search for matured fruit each time we climb and then harvest. This is lot of effort to ensure best quality/sweet of fruits in every delivery. None of the conventional farmers do it

1. They climb max 2-3 times in season and harvest only based on size rather than maturity check

2. Hence the fruits need artificial ripener and are tasteless