More cheers for cherimoya

WHEN I lived in Guam, a favorite for Sunday brunch was soursop, a fruit that tastes just like cherimoya [“An Ice Cream Tree? Sweet!,” May 4] and resembles it physically except that soursop is much larger -- a large one can be almost the size of a volleyball. Indeed, I had thought that the cherimoya was nothing more than small soursop, but it turns out they are related but different: Soursop is Annona muricata, cherimoya is Annona cherimola.

The most important point, which the writer failed to mention, is that once the seeds are removed, soursop and cherimoya make the world’s best frozen daiquiris.

BOB HAUT

Topanga

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I grew up eating many varieties of the Annona family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, and I agree that the cherimoya is one of the tastiest fruits in the world. However, nothing rivals the taste of the pink Annona diversifolia or ilama as it is known. Now that’s the tastiest fruit in the universe!

ERNESTO GARCIA

Pico Rivera

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ALL those fruits you mentioned are great, but batting fourth, in the clean-up position, I put my seedless concord grape. Liquid candy!

I am pulling one of my citrus and stashing a cherimoya in its place.

I didn’t know they grew this far north.

PETE BALWAN

Glendale