Overleg:Mango (soort)
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The mango is reputed to be the most commonly eaten fresh fruit worldwide.
It is believed that mangoes soothe the intestines which makes them easy to digest. In India, mangoes are used to stop bleeding, to strengthen the heart, and to benefit the brain. Their high levels of iron make them useful in eradicating anemia.
The mango is in the same family as poison ivy and contains urushiol, though much less than poison ivy. Some people have gotten dermatitis from touching mango peel or sap. The leaves are also toxic to cows.
80% of mangoes in UK supermarkets are of the single variety Tommy Atkins, which also dominates the world export trade. It travels well and has a good shelf-life, but does not have the same flavour as some less common varieties which can be obtained from Asian shops.
Methods of eating mangoes
Some people claim that the safest way to eat a mango is in the bathtub, or sitting naked on a deserted beach. Generally they are quite juicy and can be very messy to eat. However, those exported to temperate regions are, like much tropical fruit, picked underipe. Although they are ethylene producers and ripen in transit, they rarely have the same juiceness or flavour as the fresh fruit.
The small varieties, usually somewhat yellow in color, can be rolled on a flat surface in the same way a lemon is rolled before extracting the juice. It is ready for eating when the big seed can be rotated without breaking the skin. With the teeth rip off a piece of skin at the top of the mango and place your mouth over the hole. Squeeze the fruit from the bottom up, as if squeezing toothpaste from the bottom of the tube.
With any of the larger varieties of mango, the operation is less hazardous: place the fruit lengthwise on a table and feel for the seed which should lie horizontally inside the skin about midway through the fruit. Slice the mango so that the knife just passes over the top of the seed. Turn the mango over and repeat the process.
With each big slice that's been removed cut hatch marks through the flesh just down to the skin. Then, holding the piece flesh side up, press the thumb on the skin side underneath as if turning the piece inside out. Many bite-sized pieces of flesh will pop up and can be cut out to put into a fruit salad or other preparation. This technique is sometimes called the hedgehog method because of the appearance of the prepared fruit.
The pieces can be mashed and used in ice cream; they can be substituted for peaches in a peach (now mango) pie; or put in a blender with milk, a little sugar, and crushed ice for a refreshing beverage.
A more traditional Indian drink is mango lassi, which is similar, but uses a mixture of yoghurt and milk as the base, and is sometimes flavoured with salt or cardamom.
Mangoes are widely used in chutney, which in the West is often very sweet, but in the Indian subcontinent is usually sharpened with hot chilis or lime.
In Mexico and Guatemala, sliced mango is eaten with chili powder and/or salt.
In Ecuadaor and Honduras, small, green mangos are popular; they have a sharp, brisk flavor like a Granny Smith apple. Vendors sell slices of pealed green mango on the streets of these countries, often served with salt.
Finally, in the words of the theme song for Red Dwarf:
I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh mango juice...
Mango is also the name of a sexually ambiguous character created on Saturday Night Live by actor Chris Kattan. The character (who wears a crop top and glittering hot pants but has chest hair) serves generally to appear in a sketch in which the host of that week's show falls into lust with him/her.
Bovendien, deze vrucht heet in goed Nederlands nog steeds manga. Het woord "mango" is een lelijk amerikanisme of wil je ook over een "banana" speken als je het over een banaan hebt? Staat niet erg slim, maar goed 99% van de mensen doet het.