Soursop (also called graviola, guyabano, and in Hispanic America, guanábana) is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree.

The exact origin is unknown; it is native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean and is widely propagated.

It is in the same genus, Annona, as cherimoya and is in the Annonaceae family.

The soursop is adapted to areas of high humidity and relatively warm winters; temperatures below 5 °C (41 °F) will cause damage to leaves and small branches, and temperatures below 3 °C (37 °F) can be fatal. The fruit becomes dry and is no longer good for concentrate.

With an aroma similar to pineapple,the flavor of the fruit has been described as a combination of strawberries and apple with sour citrus flavor notes, contrasting with an underlying thick creamy texture reminiscent of banana.

The flesh of the fruit consists of an edible, white pulp, some fiber, and a core of indigestible black seeds. The pulp is also used to make fruit nectar, smoothies, fruit juice drinks, as well as candies, sorbets, and ice cream flavorings.

Due to the fruit's widespread cultivation, its derivative products are consumed in many countries like Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Fiji.

The seeds are normally left in the preparation, and removed while consuming, unless a blender is used for processing.

In Indonesia, dodol sirsak, a sweet, is made by boiling soursop pulp in water and adding sugar until the mixture caramelizes and hardens. Soursop is also a common ingredient for making fresh fruit juices that are sold by street food vendors.

In the Philippines, it is called guyabano, derived from the Spanish guanábana, and is eaten ripe, or used to make juices, smoothies, or ice cream. Sometimes, the leaf is used in tenderizing meat.

In Vietnam, this fruit is called mãng cầu Xiêm (Siamese Soursop) in the south, or mãng cầu (Soursop) in the north, and is used to make smoothies, or eaten as is.

In Cambodia, this fruit is called tearb barung, literally "western custard-apple fruit."

In Malaysia, it is known in Malay as durian belanda ("Dutch durian") and in East Malaysia, specifically among the Dusun people of Sabah, it is locally known as lampun. Popularly, it is eaten raw when it ripens, or used as one of the ingredients in Ais Kacang or Ais Batu Campur. Usually the fruits are taken from the tree when they mature and left to ripen in a dark corner, whereafter they will be eaten when they are fully ripe. It has a white flower with a very pleasing scent, especially in the morning.

While for people in Brunei Darussalam this fruit is popularly known as "Durian Salat", widely available and easily planted.

Soursop leaves are sold and consumed in Indonesia as herbal medicine. The leaves are usually boiled to make tea.

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  • Parenti [comrade/them,any]
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    3 years ago

    Genuinely contemplating writing an essay entitled Gen Z: Not Nearly as Revolutionary as You Might Think that explains how gen-z culture is just "yaaaas" capitalism and does nothing to threaten the status quo (Tik Tok is the evidence)

    Leftist filter bubbles give us a false sense of reality.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Counterpoint it wasn't boomers setting fire to police stations in 2020.

      Tik Tok is also actively censoring more radical and leftist politics and it promotes consumerism.

      Leftist filter bubbles give us a false sense of reality.

      Alternatively Capitalist Filter Bubbles give us a false sense of reality.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      In some spheres, mostly the influencer culture people I have to deal with in la and stuff (or at least it’s the most drastic but I’ve seen it outside of there as well) , I think a lot of Gen z people have really internalized a hierarchy based on social capital. Like people not wanting shit to do with you unless you have a certain amount of quantifiable clout, either by virtue of knowing people in the network or visibly having x amount of followers on social media. And how they treat people they see as beneath them based on something so arbitrary is wild

      • Parenti [comrade/them,any]
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        3 years ago

        I saw an absolutely bizarre tik tok with hundreds of thousands of likes with text that said something like "Remember in the summer of 2020 when we all pretended to be communist?"

        One generation isn't going to change things unless it happens to have a western Lenin.

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          3 years ago

          I think Gen z is relatively better on social issues/slightly more critical of capital than older people and since leftists also tend to be better on those we conflate them and think their comrades just bc they’re like “trans rights!” Or whatever but I produce for a group of Gen z kids that are all “apolitical” types they just happen to not be bigots about trans people lol.

          They still grew up under the current hegemony and were subjugated to the same indoctrination schemes. I think it’ll take more than just being born at a certain time to break them out of it. Plus new media is easily co-opted as well, they’re being programmed just like everyone else is, they just target them differently.

        • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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          3 years ago

          “Remember in the summer of 2020 when we all pretended to be communist?”

          Sounds like an op to me

    • soy_disantra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think a lot of zoomers would participate in actual real life leftist politics if given the chance, but most get caught up in the ironypoisoned-shitpostladen-debateme-vomitintothevoid twitter loop and it ends up supplanting any real organizing they would be doing otherwise. Plus, the longer you spend in the pyschoverse the more doomer you become, which further dissuades you from thinking your participation would matter. I think eventually material conditions will get bad enough that this loop breaks, but we're in for the long haul at this point. :lenin-sleeping: