Lucuma is a dried and powdered Peruvian fruit. It makes a great natural sweetener, lucuma in raw chocolate is delicious. It can be used to sweeten raw cakes and puddings and maybe even raw ice-cream. Lucuma is the most popular ice-cream flavour in Peru!
Try adding a spoonful of lucuma to your favourite smoothie.
The Latin name is Pouteria lucuma or Lucuma obovata.
Lucuma is very nutritious with high levels of carotene and vitamin B3.