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Lucuma

Andean fruit with dry sweet flesh used in desserts.

Lucuma — illustrative ingredient image

About Lucuma

Lucuma is an Andean fruit with sweet, dry flesh used in desserts, ice cream, custards, smoothies, baked goods, and drinks. The ripe fruit has a hard shell and central seeds, so culinary use focuses on the edible flesh. It is especially valued as a flavouring for creamy or milky preparations.

The flesh is sweet, starchy, and relatively dry, with a mellow caramel-like flavour often compared with maple, butterscotch, or cooked sweet potato. Its texture can be mealy or fibrous rather than juicy. Blending or sieving makes it smoother, while drying concentrates the flavour and produces a powder.

Lucuma is found as whole fruit, frozen pulp, purée, or pale golden powder. The fresh flesh is yellow-orange to golden and becomes darker when dried. Removing the skin and seeds, then mashing, blending, or mixing the pulp into a dessert, changes its moisture and mouthfeel.

Ingredient type
whole food

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English

lucuma

English

Lukuma

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English

Lukuma powder

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Lucuma nutrition & diet

Lucuma nutritional value

Lucuma, edible fruit — C 35

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the named food form.

Calories
97kcal
Protein
2.1g
Carbs
34.9g
Fat
0.2g

Per 100 g edible portion, as recorded in Tablas Peruanas de Composición de Alimentos 2017. Carbohydrate is total carbohydrate (CHOCDF), not available carbohydrate. Values apply to this form, not prepared dishes, sauces or extracts.

Portions & preparation

Establish whether the reference is fresh lucuma flesh, frozen pulp, dried fruit, or powder, since these forms differ in moisture and concentration. Use the edible flesh while excluding skin and seed. Dessert preparations may add sugar, dairy, eggs, fats, or cereal ingredients, so the plain fruit should remain distinct.

Compare the right form: Match the reference to fresh edible lucuma flesh, frozen pulp, dried lucuma, or lucuma powder, not a flavored dessert.

Diet considerations

Lucuma is a plant-derived Andean fruit and is compatible with plant-based diets in plain form. Compatibility changes in ice cream, baked goods, shakes, and fillings containing dairy, eggs, gelatin, or cereal ingredients. Fresh, dried, and powdered forms produce different portion-dependent carbohydrate patterns, especially when sweeteners are added.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
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  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Peruvian Food Composition Tables 2017 — C 35 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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