Differences between mango cultivars regarding their facility to be halved and spoon-eaten, and association with fiber.
Galán Saúco V., Fernández Galván D.
Author Affiliation: Department of Fruit Culture, Apdo 60, La Laguna, 38080 Tenerife, Spain.
Fruits (Paris) 45 : 381-385
Abstract : Forty-three cultivars of mango including germplasm from Florida, Hawaii, Israel, India, Brazil and South Africa were evaluated for their facility to be spoon-eaten, a technique which can lead to a greater consumption of this fruit, and for fibre presence. A clear correlation between fibre presence and spooning ease was shown (although the scale used to measure fibre content did not coincide with various extant bibliographical descriptions of different cultivars). Clear differences existed among cultivars regarding the ease with which they can be eaten with a spoon : the best were Glenn, Zill, Cogshall, Otts, Ah Ping, Isis and Pope ; other commercially interesting cultivars such as Tommy Atkins and Kensington were not well adapted to this technique although such widely-known cultivars as Haden, Kent and Keitt lent themselves particularly well to this method of consumption. It is suggested that the ease with which a cultivar can be spoon-eaten be included among the evaluating criteria in use by mango breeders.