MANGO
November 10th, 2011 → 1:00 am @ Shanti
“Vitamins and minerals in fresh food”
MANGO
What can I say about mangoes? Maybe they are my favourite food. I believe that when we eat fruits in season, they are all favourites, because we haven’t eaten them since the last season and you are really looking forward to eating whatever comes next. That taste, that aroma, it is so good.
Even if they did not have any vitamins or minerals, it would still be a beautiful fruit.
As the colour suggests, it has a lot of :
Vitamin: A and flavonoids, C, E, K, B1, B2, B3, B9, together with,
Minerals: Copper, Magnesium, Potassium as the main ones
High in carbohydrates and dietary fibre.
Mangoes are said to help with some forms of cancers as they are high in anti-oxidants.
These days there are many cultivars growing in many countries. The original mango came supposedly from the plains in India.
Mangoes are very popular in Japan and cost a fortune to buy. We had Japanese visitors, who could not believe, we ate them by the dozen. They sat up straight in their chair and looked on. We offered them mango after mango and they were so perplexed. They than told us how much they cost and no wonder.
Eating too many mangoes, gives some people a rash, which is very difficult to control, but you have to make yourself a `pig`, to eat that many.
Okay that’s enough drooling.
