Nomenclature
Sugar apple is a fruit of the tree Annona squamosa. It is sweet in taste due to higher fructose and reducing sugar content. Different cultures have many names for the species.
In English, the fruit is most widely known as a sugar apple or sweetsop as well as a custard apple, especially in India and Australia (in the latter, a custard apple also refers to Annona reticulata, another closely related species).
In Latin America, regional names include anón, anón de azucar, anona blanca, fruta do conde, cachiman, saramuyo, grenadilla (little grenade) and many others.
In Brazil, it is called fruta-do-conde, fruta-de-conde, condessa, fruta-pinha, pinha (lit. cone), araticum, ata or anona.
In India it is known as ata, aarticum, shareefa, sitaphal, seethaphal or seetha pazham (सीताफल சீதாப்பழம் literally meaning "Sita's fruit"). In Kerala, it is called aathachakka.
In Indonesia, srimatikiya or, as mostly people call it, srikaya.
The Taiwanese call it sakya (Chinese: 釋迦; pinyin: shìjiā; Taiwanese: sek-khia, sek-kia) because one cultivar resembles the top part of Sakyamuni's (釋迦牟尼) head.
Its name in Burmese is aajaa thee.
In the Philippines, it is called atis.
In Thailand, it is called noi-na (น้อยหน่า) which is also the common name for a hand grenade because of its appearance.
In Vietnam, it is called mãng cầu ta or na.
In the Middle East region, it is called قشطة (qishta / ishta / ashta), the English translation being "cream".
In Hong Kong, it is called "foreign lychee" (番鬼荔枝).
In Mali, Africa, it is called hairico.
In Malaysia, it is called "buah nona".
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