How to Eat Sapodilla Fruit

The inner membrane of the fruit was pale yellow with a beautiful starshaped seed pattern. We cut the fruit into half moons and bit it in the middle and had to wash our mouths immediately it had the strongest mouthpuckering astringency we've ever tasted! Actually the sapodilla has to ripen after it has been picked until it becomes, very soft. It becomes creamy and sweet like its cherimoya and soursop.