Mangoes aren't bad, IMHO, but if I had to give up a fruit permanently, I don't think that it'd be that near the bottom of my list. I'd rather keep standbys that are common in US grocery stores like like apples, oranges, pears, and kiwis.
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Garcinia fruit (mangosteens and such, no relation to mangoes).
Lychee or starfruit... and sometimes durian
I'm not a fan of the skin on starfruit, but the taste is fantastic. OTOH, if even half of what I've heard about durian is correct, that's quite the bold statement to make there
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every other one and none of them. fruits are distincitive. I love apples, grapes, oranges, kiwi, watermelon, etc etc
My family actually had this conversation the other day. I decided it was lanzones.
Kiwi. I love kiwi so much, I eat the fuzzy skin too!
Love kiwis but I get some kind of allergic reaction whenever I eat them.
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Refrigerate your mangos before eating! So much nicer than a lukewarm mango.
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Pakistani mangoes
Especially if they are shipped in a crate that has been inconspicuously loaded onto an airplane.
I love mango especially because it can be frozen & it doesn't breakdown the texture nor the flavour. It one of the only frozen fruits I can get from grocery store that I can eat out of the package (vs. most frozen fruit is only good for smoothies etc IMO). My favorite is plums, but only from my granma's tree. Nothing sold in stores would ever be labeled "plum" if it were up to me. I also like pineapple alot. Apples, oranges, peaches, while sometimes store bought you might get a good one once in a while, homegrown (or local....basically fresh) fruit has no equal. But i practically live off fruit except during the 3 winter months.
Jackfruit
Damson plum
I got very addicted to eating dragon fruit pretty much every day when I was in Vietnam. Sadly the ones I can get here in the UK are expensive and insipid, but I'm going to keep on throwing my money away in the vain hope of finding a good one.
Dragon fruit have to fully ripen on the cactus. The tendril or dragon scale like bits will start to brown and that's my favourite time to pick at least. The yellow kind I just guess because they don't have those. They don't ripen after being picked and will taste like dirt if picked early. If you have the climate or maybe greenhouse you can grow them by planting them in a pot held up at 8 ft or higher with the cactus segments dangling down. The fruit grow from the hanging parts. I still have a bunch but they need more nutrients to fruit any more and I've been too lazy to go outside to buy the fertilizer. Also post lockdown anxiety.