Unlike the other Annona species, the pulp of the fruit when ripe is yellow through orange instead of whitish. The fruit is edible and its taste is reminiscent of ripe Honeydew melon. It can be made into jam, and it is a popular ingredient of fresh fruit drinks in Maldives.

The flesh is sweet-scented and agreeable in flavor, but it has never attained general popular use unlike soursop and other related fruits.