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the fruit so beloved India fought wars and wrote love poems about it
means A sweet, fragrant tropical stone fruit with golden-orange flesh and a single large flat seed, eaten fresh or in everything from chutneys to drinks.
from From Portuguese 'manga,' which traders picked up in 16th-century India from the Tamil 'mankay' (literally 'mango fruit,' from 'man,' the mango tree, plus 'kay,' unripe fruit). The Portuguese carried both the fruit and the word out of their trading posts in Kerala, and English took it from them — so the name traveled the same spice routes the fruit did.
- botanical kin
- Related to cashews and poison ivy
- national flex
- India grows half the world's mangoes
- diplomacy fruit
- Gifted between nations to seal deals
- ancient fame
- Cultivated for over 4,000 years
- royal obsession
- Mughal emperors planted vast mango orchards
alphonso mango — indian cultivar from maharashtra, accounts for 50% of india's mango exports
ataulfo mango — mexican variety from michoacán, smallest commercial mango at 4-8 oz
kent mango — developed in florida in 1944, major commercial variety in the americas