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Pink Mango
A mango blushed rose over gold — one of the countless regional cultivars of the world's most-eaten tropical fruit. Vietnamese mangoes run from tart-green-and-dipped-in-chili-salt to lusciously sweet and ripe; this pink-shouldered one lands on the sweet, floral end.
Identifying
- oval fruit with a pink-to-rose blush over yellow-gold skin
- soft, fiberless (or nearly), deep-orange flesh around one large flat stone
- rich, floral, honeyed aroma when ripe; gives to a gentle squeeze
- the flat central seed tells every mango apart from round stone fruits
Facts
- mango is the most consumed fresh fruit on the planet, with hundreds of named cultivars
- in Vietnam the green unripe fruit is a savory snack with chili-salt, the ripe one a dessert
- in the same family as cashews and poison ivy — the skin's sap can irritate sensitive skin
