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It is not a problem to find out where mangoes grow now, in which countries. The largest part of the world supply of the fruit is the merit of India. It is also grown in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, Vietnam, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, and in Europe - in Spain and the Canary Islands.

What is inside a mango?
Inside the fruit there is a bone, the core of which (if you open it) looks like a human embryo. A ripe aromatic mango is very tasty! Although unripe fruits are also edible.

Mango fruit is often used in home medicine in India and other Asian countries. For example, in India, mangoes are used to stop bleeding, to strengthen the heart muscle and for better brain function [source not specified 2480 days].

Green unripe fruits contain large quantities of starch, which, as they ripen, turns into simple carbohydrates: sucrose, glucose and maltose. In addition, unripe mango is a valuable source of pectin, but after the formation of a hard stone in the fruit, its amount decreases significantly. Due to the content of citric, oxalic, malic and succinic acids, the unripe fruit has a very sour taste. Green mango is also rich in vitamin C (twice as much as lime), and it also contains other vitamins: B1, B2, niacin. [source not specified 2024 days]

The ripe fruit tastes very sweet and has a pleasant sweetish aroma. It contains a lot of vitamins and sugars, but few acids.

From 2016 to 2019, mango supplies quadrupled. In 2018 alone, 24.6 thousand tons were imported, and from January to September 2019, 19.7 thousand tons were imported (customs code “080450”, in the FCS statistics, mangoes are included with guava and mangosteen). Mangoes are mainly brought to Russia from Brazil, Peru and China. Brazil supplies the varieties Kent, Keitt, Palmer, Tommy Atkins, the Royal mango is imported from Peru, and the Alphonso variety is imported from India. These are green, green-red fruits of a round or oval shape with yellow flesh. They are cheaper than yellow mangoes - they are more elongated, with orange flesh inside, and they are supplied from Thailand and Vietnam.

In 2020, imports of mangoes to Russia amounted to 38.7 thousand tons, 24.3% more than in 2019 (31.1 thousand tons). For the nine months of 2021, supplies amounted to 32.8 thousand tons (in January-September 2020 - 27.2 thousand tons). The average delivery cost per ton of mango in September 2021 was 2,030.2 USD or 148 thousand rubles/ton. The key supplying countries of mangoes to the Russian Federation were: Peru (29.6% of the total volume), China (23.4%), Brazil (17.7%), Vietnam (7.8%), Israel (5.8%). ), Egypt (4.4%), Dominican Republic (3.6%)

The word mango comes from the Portuguese word manga, from the Malay (Austronesian) mangga, from the Dravidian (Tamil) word mankai, where man means “mango tree” and kai means “fruit.” The name "mango" appeared in Europe during the spice trade with South India in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The exact origins of mangoes are unknown. Indian mango supposedly originated in South Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.

In India, the Philippines and Haiti, mango (Indian mango species) is considered one of the national plants.

India harvests about 13.5 million tons of mangoes (data for 2009) and is therefore the main producer (one of the most famous varieties is Alphonso). In Europe, mangoes are cultivated mainly in the Canary Islands in Spain.

The Indian mango species (Mangifera indica) is of great agricultural importance. In 2009, more than 300 varieties of this species are grown in agriculture around the world. (By 1969, about 200 varieties were known.) One of the largest exporters of this type of mango is India. Indian mango fruits have a fibrous structure and a sweet taste, the peel is colored red, green or yellow, the flesh is yellow or orange.