Let's get involved in exotic: how to eat mango

Long gone are the days when for oranges, lemon tangerines in the stores lined up with meter lines, and about other "overseas" fruits and fruits we had a very vague idea, taken from films and books. With the present food abundance, no one is surprised with pineapple slices on the table, grains of pomegranate, slices of coconut, avocado or banana. However, sometimes, having bought this or that exotic product, we are at a deadlock: what to do with it and how it is?

Let me introduce: mango!

So, a tropical mango fruit . His homeland is India and Pakistan, and mango images are part of their national symbolism. There are many varieties of culture, some varieties are used for food, which have pleasant taste qualities and useful properties. Under the smooth shiny skin, the core of the fibrous or fleshy structure hides. The fruit itself is large, weighing up to 2 kg. Peel is red, bright yellow or tender green. Inside the mango (photo shows) a bone, large and hard.

Eating mangoes in food

To understand how to eat mangoes is quite simple. First, you can eat fruits in varying degrees of maturity. Of course, the most delicious - reached the "condition", but not ripe, with the pulp soft, and not fibrous, yellow and orange hues. The green fruit tastes like lime. His slices can be put in tea instead of the usual lemon. An immature mango is also useful. Useful properties for him even in excess. First of all, it is so valuable for us pectin. In the ripened fruit, it is much less than in the green one. The most useful acids are amber, citric, malic and oxalic. By the way, due to their presence, the juice of such mango can acidify borscht or sprinkle salads, a couple of drops to add to the sauces. And on the richness of vitamin C, the green fruit is superior to lime and lemon. Quite a "vitamin bomb" makes mango vitamins of group B. It turns out that there are already two options for eating mangoes.

Secondly, about ripe fruits. They belong to the category of hydrocarbon-containing ones and accumulate these substances as they reach full maturity. The degree of ripeness can be determined by the smell: for ready-to-eat fruits, it is strong enough, with a pleasant aroma. Perezrelye same fruits do not smell so tender and sweet. Before you eat, mangoes are carefully sniffed!

Mature fruits are so sweet that they taste like natural honey. This wonderful delicacy, eat it for dessert or just for fun - it's a pleasure! With a degree of maturity, the amount of vitamins in the fetus only grows. For example, vitamin A has a beneficial effect on eyesight and is simply necessary for eye diseases. If you regularly eat our "exot" for food, you can improve immunity, protect yourself from various viral diseases and infections associated with colds, maintain a toning of the heart muscle and just enjoy life!

Those who do not know how to eat mango - raw or in processed form - can advise different ways and recipes. The easiest way is to cut the fruit into two halves, slipping the bone with a knife. Then cut into slices and eat, like slices of melon (to shkurochki). Or in each halve cut the flesh to the skin on the cubes, bend the skin inside, cut it into a plate and enjoy! That's just not abusing delicacy, otherwise you can not avoid stomach problems.

You can put mangoes in pies as fillings or in cakes (as a fruit layer), squeeze out the juice from the pulp, add to mousses and cocktails, even canned etc. The main thing is that all this is tasty and very useful!