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Season

Typically late June through August.

2011 Season Over

Uses

Ripe, fruit mangos are excellent eaten as fresh fruit. They can also be used in a variety of culinary delights from jams to salsa. Try one of these mango recipes.

Not sure how to prepare mangos? Check out our video How to Cut a Mango.

How to Buy

Ripe mangos are available for pickup at our Farm Market during season. 

We also ship within the continental United States (except to CA and AZ). Your choice of four package sizes. Now offering sampler plans and the Mango Lovers Club. Order online now.

The remainder of all shipping orders will go out the week of August 30th.  No further orders are being accepted for the 2010 season.

Cultivars


 Variety


 PictureEating Quality

Tommy Atkins: 

Most common mango.

Seedling of the 

Haden variety.

Medium size fruit.

Ships very well. 



Tommy AtkinsFair to good.

 

Mild and sweet flavor 

with moderate fiber.

Southern Blush:

Medium to large

mango. Ships well.

 


Southern Blush

Excellent.

 

Rich flavor and very 

little fiber.

Kent:

Medium size

fruit. Yellow

dots multiply as

fruit ripens but 

skin retains green

color. 


Kent

Excellent.

 

Rich flavor and 

virtually no fiber.

Keitt:

Large mango. Mostly

green with a pinkish

blush on stem end.

Skin takes on a yellow

hue as ripens, but does

not turn yellow.


Keitt

Good to excellent.

 

Sweet, delicate flavor 

with very little fiber.


Nutrition

Mango is a very good source of Vitamins A and C, and a good source of Dietary Fiber and Vitamin B6. It is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, and Sodium. One cup of sliced mango (165g) has 107 calories, only 4 of which are from fat.

Articles about mango nutrition:


 
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