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I have never tasted a black zapote that had anything to do with chocolate! But I like them. Sure there is variation in fruit quality. I have one grafted tree (cultivar?) that produces small but tasty fruit. The taste reminds me a lot of dates :-)
I just got to try a few black sapote fruit, from brown to squishy nearly rotten black inside. They texture was much better than I expected. The less ripe one had texture like mamey sapote. The really squishy one was still not as soft as actual chocolate pudding, but definitely had a chocolate taste and some sweetness but not much. I agree it is pretty bland, and I personally wouldnt recommend it as something worth growing unless I had excess space. I will try a few more if I get the opportunity. Tastes and texture is nothing like fuyu or haitcha(?) persimmon