Group · Fruit
Custard apple (cherimoya)
The custard apple, or cherimoya (anone in French), is a tropical fruit with scaly green skin and creamy white flesh, tasting of pear and banana. Mark Twain called it “the most delicious fruit known to men”.
In terms of nutrition facts, raw flesh: 80 kcal per 100 g, with 15.4 g of carbohydrates including 12.9 g of sugars, 3 g of fibre and 1.57 g of protein. It provides 287 mg of potassium, 17 mg of magnesium and 12.6 mg of vitamin C per 100 g.
Macronutrient breakdown
Nutrition table per 100 g
| Calories | 80 kcal |
| Kilojoules | 338 kJ |
| Protein | 1,6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 15,4 g |
| Fat | 0,7 g |
| Fibre | 3 g |
Micronutrients per 100 g
All measured nutrients, ranked by share of the daily reference intake.
- Vitamin B60,26 mg19 %
- Vitamin C12,6 mg16 %
- Potassium287 mg14 %
- Vitamin B20,13 mg9 %
- Vitamin B10,1 mg9 %
- Omega-3 ALA0,16 g8 %
- Copper0,07 mg7 %
- Vitamin B50,35 mg6 %
- Vitamin B9dietary folate equivalents23 µg
See the other 11 nutrients
- Manganese0,09 mg5 %
- Magnesium17 mg5 %
- Vitamin B30,64 mg4 %
- Phosphorus26 mg4 %
- Vitamin E0,27 mg2 %
- Iron0,27 mg2 %
- Zinc0,16 mg2 %
- Calcium10 mg1 %
- Omega-6 LA0,03 g0 %
- Iodine0,4 µg0 %
- Vitamin A0,17 µg0 %
Anses Ciqual 2025. Source: Anses, 2025, Ciqual food composition table
Tips
Its seeds are toxic: never crunch them. They contain acetogenins, neurotoxic compounds. Swallowed whole, they pass through without harm; chewed or crushed, they pose a real problem. Remove them, especially with children.
80 kcal: it is one of the most energy-dense fruits in this batch. Its creamy flesh and 12.9 g of sugars put it closer to a banana than to an apple.
Eat it with a spoon, fully ripe. It should give under your finger like an avocado. When hard, it is astringent and pointless; it ripens in a few days at room temperature.
3 g of fibre per 100 g. A good score, in the upper-middle range of fresh fruits.
A link with neurological disorders is being studied. Daily, long-term consumption of fruits of the annona family has been associated with atypical parkinsonian syndromes in the West Indies. Occasional consumption is not concerned.