Let's Beat the Heat with the Summer Fruit 'Mango'!
As we enter the summer season, Home and Garden brings you 'Mango' to help our followers cool off and beat the heat!
As we all know, mangoes are both tropical and summer fruits, making them the perfect choice during this season. Mangoes are refreshing and packed with nutrients, minerals, and vitamins that are beneficial for the body. They can be enjoyed both ripe and unripe, with different aromas and flavors depending on the variety. Besides eating them fresh, we can also enjoy them with sweet fish sauce, chili salt, or other dipping sauces. Additionally, mango sticky rice is a dessert that is not only loved by Thais but also appreciated by foreigners.
In addition to enjoying mangoes both raw and ripe, they can also be processed into various forms such as mango paste, dried mango, mango juice, mango ice cream, or mango jam. This time, let's take a look at which mango varieties we have to offer!
Green Savor Mango
This is the mango that most Thais are familiar with. The Green Savor mango is long, with a curved back, pointed tip, smooth skin, dark green color, and thick skin. It has a rich flavor and is commonly enjoyed with chili salt and sweet fish sauce.
Nam Dok Mai Mango
Nam Dok Mai mango is more commonly eaten when ripe due to its sweet and refreshing taste. When unripe, it is very sour. This variety is long and slender, with unripe fruit being white and ripe fruit turning a pale yellow.
Three-Flavored Green Mango
Also known as “Kim Hong Mango,” this variety is large, weighing nearly 2 kilograms, with a sweet and slightly sour taste that is delicious even when eaten plain.
Rad Mango
The unripe fruit is very sour, while the ripe fruit has a sweet and slightly sour flavor. It has a protrusion near the stem and is commonly enjoyed with sweet fish sauce.
Rong Mango
This small fruit has a long groove on its belly. The ripe fruit is fine-textured and yellow with few fibers.
Building Mango
The flesh is yellow in both unripe and ripe fruit, with a sweet taste and fragrant aroma.
Ar2E2 Mango
This mango variety may not be very familiar to us, as it is primarily exported rather than sold in Thailand. The Ar2E2 mango is quite round, weighing between 500 grams to 1 kilogram, with a skin color that is greenish-yellow and orange-red. When ripe, the flesh is yellow, has few fibers, and is firm with a slightly sweet taste.
Information about the Mango Tree
Common Mango / Garden Mango / Makk Moong / Mango Tree
Scientific Name: Mangifera indica L.
Family: Anacardiaceae
Type: Medium to large tree
Height: 10 – 30 meters
Crown: Round and dense
Trunk: Brown bark, all parts of the tree contain clear sap that turns dark brown when dried
Leaves: Simple leaves, lanceolate to elliptical, 4 – 7 cm wide, 10 – 20 cm long, pointed tip, narrow base, thick, smooth or slightly wavy
Flowers: Clustered at the tips, with both perfect and male flowers on the same cluster. Small, yellowish-white flowers with a faint fragrance bloom from January to June.
Fruit: Green when unripe, yellow when ripe, soft flesh, flat seed, hard inner wall covered with fibers.
Growth Rate: Slow
Soil: All types of soil
Water: Moderate, drought-resistant
Sunlight: All day
Propagation: Seed propagation, air layering, and grafting.
Written by: Tatsareeya S.
Images by: Rithirong Chantongsuk
Style by: Worawat Tulthip
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