Bartolomé de las Casas wrote: “There was another (fruit) that was very good and soft, since it did not smell, as big as a quince, which is nothing more than a bag of cream or butter, and thus it is white and thinner or liquid. how thick, like very soft butter, what is edible from it; it has inside some black and shiny seeds, as if they were jet, as big as pine nuts with their shells, although much prettier; the shell or bag where the food is is between green and brown, which the Indians call annona, the penultimate length.” History of the Indies. Chapter XI.
Fruit , described by Father Las Casas , seems more to be what is currently called ma món , and " mamón lard " and erroneously " cherimoya " , than the one known as sugar apple ; although it should be noted that in some part of the eastern region of Cuba the name of "anón manteca" is given.