Canistel or Yellow Sapote or Pouteria campechiana is also called Eggfruit, boracho, toesa, cucuma, mammee sapota, zapote mante, to maa, lamut khamen, sawo mentega, sawo ubi, sapota amarela, ti-es, siguapa, zapotillo. The canistel belongs to Sapotaceae family, has its center of origin in Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated all over Central America, including the Caribbean Islands up to Southern Florida and the Bahamas. It was introduced into the Philippines and Hawaii in about 1924. The canistel tree is erect and generally no more than 8m tall, but in favorable situations, may reach a height of 27-30m and the trunk may attain a diameter of 1m. Slender in habit or with a spreading crown, it has brown, furrowed bark and abundant white, gummy latex. Young branches are velvety brown. The fruits are about the size of an apple, yellowish to orange in color with somewhat mealy pulp similar in appearance and texture to a cooked egg yolk enclosing often a single large seed. The flavor is sweet, more or less musky, and somewhat like that of a baked sweet potato.