Thread: What the hell is this?

Even unripe it wasn't that bad. You should have seen me try to cut it. I started with skin and then started cutting it off. I end up shaving slices off. I have 3 more so I will let those sit.

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WTF Oak...that's a frreakin Mango, FFs

Living in Hawaii mangoes are plentiful there.

When my friends and I used to hike around we would pick mangoes off the trees and eat them unripe just like the mango you have.

The unripe mango taste better with a dab of salt and it cleans your teeth thoroughly.

You can also eat them with soy sauce as a dip.

The skin can be tough but it is also edible and adds a different texture when you bite it.



Food Value
The mango is used as food in all stages of its development. Green or unripe mango contains a large portion of starch which gradually changes into glucose, sucrose and maltose as the fruit begins to ripe. It disappears completely when the fruit is fully ripe. Green mango is a rich source of pectin which gradually diminishes after the formation of the stone. Unripe mango is sour in taste because of the presence of oxalic, citric, malic and succinic acids.
The raw mango is a valuable source of vitamin C. It contains more vitamin C than half-ripe or fully ripe mangoes. It is also a good source of vitamin B1 and B2 and contains sufficient quantity of niacin. These vitamins differ in concentration in various varieties during the stages of maturity and environmental conditions.

The ripe fruit is very wholesome and nourishing. The chief food ingredient of mango is sugar. The acids contained in the fruit are tartaric acid and malic acid, besides a trace of citric acid. These acids are utilised by the body and they help to maintain the alkali reserve of the body.

Natural Benefits and Curative Properties
The mango is well-known for its medicinal properties both in unripe and ripe states. The unripe fruit is acidic, astringent and antiscorbutic. The skin of the unripe fruit is astringent and stimulant tonic. The bark is also astringent and has a marked action on mucous membranes. Mango pickles preserved in oil and salted solution is used throughout India. However, these pickles, if extremely sour, spicy and oily, are not good for health and should be specially avoided by those suffering from arthritis, rheumatism, sinusitis, sore throat and hyperacidity.
The ripe mango is antiscorbutic, diuretic, laxative, invigorating, fattening and astringent. It tones up the heart muscle, improves complexion and stimulates appetite. It increases the seven body nutrients, food juice, blood, flesh, fat, bone marrow and semen. The fruit is beneficial in liver disorders, loss of weight and other physical disturbances.

Unripe Mango
Heat Stroke
The unripe mango protects men from the adverse effects of hot, scorching winds. A drink, prepared from the unripe mango by cooking it in hot ashes and mixing the pith with sugar and water is an effective remedy for heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Eating raw mango with salt quenches thirst and prevents the excessive loss of sodium chloride and iron during summer due to excessive sweating.
Gastro-Intestinal Disorders:
Unripe green mangoes are beneficial in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders. Eating one or two small tender mangoes in which the seed is not fully formed with salt and honey is found to be very effective medicine for summer diarrhoea, dysentery, piles, morning sickness, chronic dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation.
Bilious Disorders
Unripe mangoes are an excellent fruit remedy for bilious disorders. The acids contained in the green mango increase the secretion of bile and act as intestinal antiseptic. Therefore, eating green mango daily with honey and pepper cures biliousness, food putrefaction i.e. when proteins are decomposed by bacteria; urticaria and jaundice. It tones up the liver and keeps it healthy.
Blood Disorders
The green mango is valuable in blood disorders because of its high vitamin C content. It increases the elasticity of the blood vessels and helps the formation of new blood cells. It aids the absorption of food-iron and prevents bleeding tendencies. It increases body resistance against tuberculosis, anemia, cholera and dysentery.
Scurvy
The amchur, a popular article of diet in indian houses, consists of green mangoes skinned, stoned, cut into pieces and dried in the sun. 15 gm. of it is believed to be equivalent to 30 gm. of good lime on account of its citric content. It is valueble in the treatment of scruvy.
Ripe Mango
Eye Disorders
Ripe mangoes are highly beneficial in the treatment of night blindness in which one cannot see properly in dim light. This disease is caused by vitamin A dificiency. It will also prevent many other eye diseases which may ultimately cause total blindness. Eating mangoes liberally will also prevent development of refractive errors, dryness of the eyes, softening of the cornea, itching and burning in the eyes.
Infections
All bacterial invasions are due to poor epithelium the tissue that covers the external surface for the body. Liberal use of mangoes during the season contributes towards formation of healthy epithelium, thereby preventing frequent attacks of common infections such as colds rhinitis and sinusitis. This is attributable to high concentration of vitamin A in mangoes.
Loss of Weight
The mango-milk cure is an ideal treatment for loss of weight. For this mode of treatment, ripe and sweet mangoes should always be selected. They should be taken thrice a day - morning, noon and evening. The mangoes should be taken first and then followed by milk. The mango is rich in sugar but deficient in protein. On the other hand, milk is rich in protein but deficient in sugar. The deficiency of the one is made up by the other. Exclusive mango-milk diet taken for at least one month, will lead to improvement in health, vigour and gain in weight. For rapid gain in weight, about 4 to 5 litres of milk should be consumed with 3 to 4 kg. of mangoes.
Diabetes
The tender leaves of the mango tree are considered useful in diabetes. An infusion is prepared from fresh leaves by soaking them overnight in water and squeezing them well in water before filtering it in the morning. This infused water should be taken every morning to control early diabetes. As an alternative to infusion, leaves can be dried in the shade, powdered and preserved. Half a teaspoonful of this powder should be taken twice a day, in the morning and evening.
Diarrhoea
The mango seeds are valuable in diarrhoea. The seeds should be collected during the mango season, dried in the shade and powdered and stored for use as medicine. It should be given in doses of about one and a half gram to two grams with or without honey. Juice of fresh flowers when taken with one or two teaspoonful of curds, is also valuable in diarrhoea.
Throat Disorders
The mango bark is very efficacious in the treatment of diphtheria and other throat diseases. Its fluid is locally appled and also used as a gargle. The gargle is prepared by mixing 10 ml. of the fluid extract with 125 ml. of water.
Scorpion Bites
The juice which oozes out at the time of plucking the fruit from the tree gives immediate relief to pain when applied to a scorpion bite or the sting of a bee. The juice an be collected and kept in a bottle.
Precautions
Unripe mangoes should not be eaten in excess. Their excessive intake may cause throat irritation, indigestion, dysentery and abdominal colic. One should not consume more than one or two green mangoes daily. Water should not be drunk immediately after eating the green mango because it coagulates the sap and makes it more irritant. Sap or milky juice which comes out on breaking the stalk of the green mango is irritant and astringent. Eating green mangoes without draining the sap may cause mouth, throat and gastro intestinal irritations. The sap should be fully squeezed out or the skin should be peeled before using raw mango.
Excessive use of mangoes produce ailments like constipation, eye infections, blood impurities and seasonal fever.

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

WTF Oak...that's a frreakin Mango, FFs

Ever person knew what this damn thing was.

I need to get out more. lol

I just told my wife and she looked at me like a freak. She is even like "you don't know what a mango is?".

Originally Posted by ninja|oaklandr

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

WTF Oak...that's a frreakin Mango, FFs

Ever person knew what this damn this was.

I need to get out more. lol

And ditch the fast food diet man... That shit will make your heart explode...but your corpse may stick around for a few hundred years with all those preservatives.

Mango > fast food.

There are actually two kinds of mangoes that I know of, one has a very yellow skin when ripe and has a stronger flavor and a softer texture, whereas the other one starts out green and goes reddish. I like both, really - everyone, if you can, go out and buy a mango, peel it, freeze it, and put it on a stick and eat it. Mmmmm.

BADGER!!!