It appears that this name derives from the word lucuma.

The name was contributed by Vietnam and refers to the lucuma tree.

Lucuma is the most popular ice cream flavor in Peru.

As the related lucuma, the canistel can be eaten out of hand.

Lucuma is used in a variety of culinary drinks and desserts.

Anthropologists have found ancient burial sites with lucuma seeds.

Granadilla and lucuma, which locals say only grows in Peru, are classics.

Currently there is a contest between strawberry and lucuma flavors to become permanent versions of the product.

Lucuma have been eaten for many centuries.

Lucuma fruits are found in Peru, and Chile.

Don't know what lucuma is?

Luckily, lucuma ice cream ($2.50), made with a tropical fruit that tastes almost like maple candy, is available anytime.

Ingredients such as Loche, Lucuma, among others.

Pouteria multiflora, a tree (also called the broad-leaved lucuma)

Lucuma and deep fried "truffles"

Roast chicken is excellent, and desserts like rice pudding and lucuma ice cream, made with a Peruvian fruit, are wonderful.

There are remnants of guava, Lucuma and pacae which insist on a varied diet as well as management over some crops that were not cultivated.

The flora in the central Sea Yungas region is mainly composed by the lucuma and chirimoya trees, the casuarin and others.

Delgado intends to add a collection of exotic flavors using tropical fruits such as lucuma, camu camu and guanabana.

Helados (ice cream): The most common ice cream flavors found in Peru are lucuma, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.

At Caral, the edible domesticated plants noted by Shady are squash, beans, lucuma, guava, pacay, and camote.

As well as some unusual ingredients – not everyone cooks with tamari and agave syrup – there are some really weird ones, such as lucuma.

“I heard there is lucuma [a jungle fruit with flesh the texture of hard-boiled egg yolk] ice cream,” Ospina enthused.

In addition to 17g of plant protein per serving, this supplement contains camu camu, acai berry, maca, lucuma, chia seeds, and monk fruit.

Agricultural products collected at Las Haldas include cotton, beans, including lima beans, potatoes, chile peppers, and lucuma (a tropical fruit still popular in Peru).