MANGO...

The king of the fruits," mango fruit is one of the most popular, nutritionally rich fruits with unique flavor, fragrance, taste, and heath promoting qualities, making it numero-uno among new functional foods, often labeled as “super fruits."

Mango is one of the delicious seasonal fruits grown in the tropics. The tree is believed to be originating in the sub-Himalayan plains of Indian subcontinent. Botanically, this exotic fruit belongs within the family of Anacardiaceae, a family that also includes numerous species of tropical-fruiting trees in the flowering plants such as cashew, pistachio,...etc.

Mango is a tropical tree cultivated in many regions of India, and now its farming distributed wide across the world in many continents. Usually, fruits grow at the end of a long, string like stem, with sometimes morethan one fruit to a stem.

Mango comes in different shapes and sizes depending upon cultivar types. Internally, its flesh is juicy, orange-yellow in color with numerous soft fibrils radiating from its centrally placed flat, oval-shaped stone (enveloping a single large kidney-shaped seed). Its flavor is pleasant and rich, and tastes sweet with mild tartness. A high-quality mango fruit should feature no or very less fiber content and minimal sour taste. Mango seed (stone) may either has a single embryo, or sometimes polyembryonic.

How to enjoy your MANGO's??

• Mango fruit can be enjoyed all alone without any additions.

• Fresh mango cubes are a great addition to fruit salads.

• Mango juice with ice cubes is a popular, delicious drink.

• Mango fruit juice blended with milk as "mango-milk shake." Mango fruit is also used to prepare jam, jelly, ice cream and in candy industries.

• The unripe, raw, green mango has been used in the preparation of pickles, jam (marmalade), and chutney in the Asian countries.