Alphonso mango
Mangifera indica 'Alphonso' · Tropical fruit
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The Alphonso — known in India as Hapus (Hāpūs) — is the most celebrated and expensive of Indian dessert mangoes, a medium oval fruit whose thin saffron-orange skin gives way to dense, non-fibrous, custard-rich flesh of extraordinary sweetness and floral perfume. Grown above all on the Konkan coast of Maharashtra around Ratnagiri and Devgad, it commands a short, intensely seasonal premium market.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
Firm ripeBuy itIt gives a little but still dices cleanly for salsa, salad or grilling.
SkinGround colour starting to lift
FleshYields a little under the thumb
StemShoulders full, level with stem
SmellFaint sweet resin at the stem
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What you get from one
71%
Edible part
336 g flesh · stone and skin out
473 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Below about 10 °C the skin greys and it ripens unevenly. Chill only ripe fruit, and only briefly.
85-95%
Humidity
Open and uncovered
Airflow