Wild Apple (Docynia indica) is a sour apple grown in northeast India, particularly in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. Locals traditionally consume the very sour fruit by boiling it to reduce sourness or eating dried and salted slices. Some also soak slices in water for a few days to consume both the fruit and water. The wild apples are collected from hills and plains by locals for personal consumption and sale in markets.
Wild Apple (Docynia indica) is a sour apple grown in northeast India, particularly in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. Locals traditionally consume the very sour fruit by boiling it to reduce sourness or eating dried and salted slices. Some also soak slices in water for a few days to consume both the fruit and water. The wild apples are collected from hills and plains by locals for personal consumption and sale in markets.
Wild Apple (Docynia indica) is a sour apple grown in northeast India, particularly in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. Locals traditionally consume the very sour fruit by boiling it to reduce sourness or eating dried and salted slices. Some also soak slices in water for a few days to consume both the fruit and water. The wild apples are collected from hills and plains by locals for personal consumption and sale in markets.
Wild Apple (Docynia indica) is a sour apple grown in northeast India, particularly in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. Locals traditionally consume the very sour fruit by boiling it to reduce sourness or eating dried and salted slices. Some also soak slices in water for a few days to consume both the fruit and water. The wild apples are collected from hills and plains by locals for personal consumption and sale in markets.
Sour apples are grown in north east regions of India. It is cultivated
successfully in the moderately high altitude areas of Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh. The olden method of consumption was by scrubbing on a clean stone and boiling in pots to minimize the sourness, while some eat it like other fruits. The fruit tastes sour and presently consumed by the local people in the form of salted and dried slices. Sometimes, it is whittled and kept in container with water for few days and both, water and the fruit are consumed. The local people collect this wild apple from the nearby hills and plains for their own food and also to sell them in the markets.