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What fruit is better than mangoes?

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Have you ever heard of a champagne mango? My wife and I had them when we toured a farm in Hawaii where their goal wasn't actually to grow / sell fruit, but to replenish the nutrients in the soil that were wrecked by sugar cane plantations. Anyway, the guy pulls these mangoes straight off the tree and tells us they're really fibrous so you can't eat them like a regular mango, but you can mash it up in the skin then drink it like a juice box. He tossed me the one he was mashing up as a demo while explaining all this then told me to bite the top off and drink. As soon as my teeth broke the skin, juice started gushing out onto my shoes and the ground. The juice from that mango is easily like top 3 things I've ever eaten. Both the amount of flavor and the amount of juice that came from it were unbelievable.
- I want this 😳

None, I grew up with a mango tree in the backyard.
It was heaven.
- Mangos are the greatest. I've tried all the others, pathetic.

Almost all of them.
- I know we're in the minority here, but I agree. Mango is gross.
  
  I am a Mexican person that doesn't like mangoes. You can't even imagine the judgement.
  
  There are many varieties of mangoes, my friend.
- Same. Mango is unpleasant imo. Also peaches and apricot are gross too.

There are mangoes and there are mangoes. If you mean the mangoes in a European supermarket, pretty much anything. If you mean the ones in Australia, there’s nothing better.
- Kensington Pride all the way

Mangosteens. They are the Best Fruit.
The ones you get here in Australia are golfball-sized and horribly expensive, but when I went to singapore they were huge and cheap.
- If you want cheaper come to Malaysia, that's where Singapore get their stuff.
- 100% this is the only correct answer
- Isn't the fruit to seed ratio bad?
  
  Not really but the answer is it depends on your luck. There are 'slices' that have no seed and some with seeds that are 80% of the 'slice'.
- I've never heard of those. They look just like the bombs from 64-era Zelda.

Literally all of them.
- L take
  
  You are blinded by Big Mango! Cast aside your grassy not-quite-orange tasting fruit and join us where things are delicious without being an acquired taste!

Where I live, we can get good mangoes, so they may win. But a good watermelon is my favorite fruit, and the occasional perfectly ripe apricot or peach I have tasted were both better than mango, they are just never ripe in the shops here, picked too early I think so they go straight from underripe and hard as rocks to mealy and unpleasant.
- You can't beat a good watermelon, but 75% of the watermelons I've had weren't a good one, so they can be a bit of a gamble.
  
  Same with honeydew. Once you have a perfect one, 90% are so disappointing. But that perfect one... Oh my!
  
  Some decades ago I bought Afghan watermelon seeds on a whim, wondering if it was notably different. Only 5 plants grew and only one viable fruit was produced. It was so unreasonably good and I had never previously enjoyed watermelon.

Perfectly ripe peaches (and other stonefruit)

Blackberries and strawberries! Although my tastes are likely coloured by the fact that I live in a place where few fresh fruits grow other than those, similar berries (yes, I know strawberries aren't technically berries), and apples. So I like what is tastiest here. But I do really like them
- Weird. To me blackberries and strawberries are the most likely to be either bland or overripe/rotten tasting. I would pick raspberries (and maybe blueberries) any day of the week
  
  I find that they do not store or travel well. Like a lot of fruit they're enormously tastier when they're in season and local
  
  Depends where they're grown I think. I can't stand California strawberries but give me some fresh BC strawberries and I am in heaven. I've never liked blackberries though, despite them growing on like every street corner here.
- Sounds like the PNW to me.
  
  Scotland! I've never visited the PNW but the impression I get as an outsider is that the landscape and climate are quite similar to Scotland's. The mountains are a lot bigger, but the general shape of things seems to hold
  
  What is a PNW?

Cantaloupe - when it's not pre-cut with a possibility of salmonella
- Ah, cantaloupe -- the "packing peanuts" of any fruit salad
  
  No, that would be apples.
- Brave post of the month right here. Idk a fruit that's hated more than cantaloupe besides durian.
  
  Cantaloupe isn't really the best fruit but it is the best melon by a longshot

Than good mango, not many.
Perfectly ripe and jammy persimmons are up there though.
Super ripe and juicy yellow melon is an experience too. Especially when eaten straight out of the fridge on a hot summers day.
- I mean, a room temperature orange is a juicy wonder
  Also grapes if you get them just right
  
  I find grapes far too sweet these days. I tried variety box of them a few months back and none tasted fresh and tart how I remembered them from childhood.

Figs fresh off the tree.
- It's the only way! When I was a kid our neighbor had a big old Mission Fig tree with so many figs, we climbed up and picked a big bowlful, while eating so many!
  We ate all the ones that split when we were picking them, so they were the ripest. And we didn't eat the skin, just scraped the insides out with our teeth. So decadent!
  Fully-ripe figs don't travel well at all.

Pineapple. When I lived in Brazil I'd buy a fresh pineapple every week and it was heavenly. Easier to cut than a mango. The taste is debatable, I'd lean towards the tart tongue-dissolving pineapple, but hard to argue with the texture of a mango.

Nothing. A mango is literally heaven. So juicy.

Mangos are S tier on taste, but D at best on accessibility. Fruits that I rate highly for both taste and convenience are clementines, seedless green grapes, and those flying-saucer shaped peaches.
- Since you're rating fruits based on accessibility, I simply must bring up durians.
- I guess the takeaway is that, the more accessible a fruit is, the better it tastes. Shipping things really alters the taste and freshness somewhat.
  
  I meant accessibility in the sense of, how difficult/messy/undignified is it to eat. But yes that too. I thought coconuts were brittle, and grapefruit were inedibly sour until I tried some in their country of origin.
- You need to have a shower mango.
  What is a shower mango?
  Its when you stand in the shower fully nude, rip the skin off and raw dog it until there's nothing left but seed.
  Then you leave the shower without turning on the taps.

Banana

Apples. Locally grown, not flown across half the globe. And they come in all kinds of different flavors, some more sweet, some more sour, some mild.
- True for most unless you have a mango tree growing in your yard. Then you have more mangos than you know what to do with. Kangaroos, cattle and horses like eating them though.
  
  I don't think a mango tree would copy with the climate here. And there is a severe lack of Kangaroos around this place, maybe except for a bunch in the zoo...

Anything, as I don't like mangos.
Seriously though, oranges.
- Fuckin love oranges.

Pawpaws
- I have a few trees. Can't wait til they start bearing fruit!
  P.S. Assuming you're talking about this and not papaya:
  
  Same! I planted a lot of seeds around my yard thinking they'd somehow be hard to grow, and every single one of them germinated. I think I have like sixteen saplings (three of them are Peterson ones that we bought from a grafter).
  
  Papaya still tastes like vomit to me, and just flat and sweet not balanced. I can't imagine anyone arguing that it's better than mango. Have not tried pawpaw yet.
- Amen!

A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think

Team strawberry

I love the kind of mangoes I used to get in the tropics. Small, very sweet, yellow skin with soft fibers. I'd plock them directly from any tree around me. The skin itself was soft and sweet so no peeling needed.
There's another kind of mango that locally we called "manga". It's bigger, often with reddish and greenish colors mixed with the yellow. It's more fibrous and significantly less sweet. I really don't like these, but it's all I can get where I live now, possibly because the ones I like are harder to preserve and export.
- I grew up in South East Asia, and mangoes here are the best. I tried "western" mangoes and they're trash. I feel sad for people who can't experience eating "proper" mangoes. Although I feel it's the same way for me if we talk about grapes, peaches, berries, etc.

Strawberries

Pink Lady apples for me. Can't get enough of them.
- SweeTango is excellent if you have the chance
  
  If I ever see them, I'll get involved. However, I don't think they havw them in my corner of the world
  
  www.applerankings.com
- I loved apples as a kid and would eat them pretty much every day until some point after I turned like 12 or 13 my body went "u like these apples, how about dem apples??" And the histamines went to WAR.
  Ngl I've been tempted to get myself an EpiPen and just go to town one day.

Manstays

Pricly pear cactus fruit and those red, sea urchin lookin fruits (i forgot their name)
Edit: called rambutan fruit
- If you like rambutan, you will love pulasan. It's basically Rambutan 2.
- Rambutan in great. But I don't think it comes close to mangoes' level.

Durian you fools! King of fruit, a divine and complex flavour.
Toffee and onion and sour cream and mango and banana and custard and pineapple all dance together. Ah durian, the only fruit worth travelling for to eat fresh off the tree.
Durian my beloved.
- Durian: tastes like Heaven; smells like Hell.
  One time, I had a box of durian-flavored cookies. (Think Oreos, but with durian filling). I brought them to work to share with my coworkers (because I can't eat a whole box by myself and I didn't plan to leave a partially-eaten and open box to linger in my house).
  I knew I was in trouble when I opened the box and realized that each cookie was individually sealed. As soon as I broke the seal on the first cookie the, err, unmistakeable durian scent began to waft through the office.
  I'd only managed to convince a single coworker to join my cookie break, but even having opened only two cookies, it wasn't long before someone walking twenty feet distant sniffed the air and asked in a worried tone, "Does anyone smell gas?"
  "It's these cookies!"
  "Cookies?! No - I smell natural gas, man! Like sulphur!"
  "Yeah. It's these cookies. Want one? They're durian flavored!"
  "Uh, no."
  "They taste better than they smell!"
  "...low bar. Still gonna pass on that."
  ...after the third person worrying about gas leaks, I had to throw away the rest of the cookies. Outside.
  
  They smell amazing idk what's wrong with people. Yes there are some chemicals in there commonly associated with noxious stuff, but that's also true of like garlic and onions.
  
  Someone baked durian on a ski trip, and people thought there was a gas leak in the house. Their house smelled terrible for days, lmao. Thank god I wasn't in that unit.
- I don't count durian among fruit. In my head it clusters with creamy ripening cheeses.
  
  ah but it is which is the delightful magic. A fruit with all the complexity of a good cheese and none of the horror. Woven from air with sunlight and gifted freely.
  What a generous thing the durian! Mana from heaven.

Oranges. They taste better and it doesn't have that stringy flesh like mangoes does
- Not all mangoes have stringy flesh. Most of the mangoes I see in U.S. supermarkets are the Tommy Atkins variety, which is pretty unremarkable. In the 1950s, the Florida Mango Forum described it as having, "unremarkable eating qualities and considerable fiber in the flesh."
  I sometimes see Kent mangoes, which taste better and are way less fibrous. If you can find a Keitt mango, they taste great and also have low fiber.

If every story was about mangoes, then every story would be better.

A good grapefruit is so juicy and sour.. I love them!! I peel them like an orange and devour it like a ravenous wolf tearing flesh from bone.
Raspberries are also frikkin amazing. I remember as a kid, we went to a farm where you could pick your own, and I just ate so many while picking that I got sick in the field and couldn't get up. 10/10 would absolutely do again.
But honestly.. now that I think about it, I may choose a good mango over both. 🤔 But still. All 3 are excellent and amazing fruits! I wish I could try more delicious fruits I haven't had yet!

Mangos taste like black pepper to me, so pretty much any other fruit tastes better.
- If you've been buying the tiny black round ones that come in a grinder, you may want to try the big red ones in the produce section

Strawberries

Passionfruit, Mangosteen, Durian
- Durian
  Noooooooo!
  
  Haters gonna h8

grapefruit

Persimmons and pomegranate are the fruits of the gods.
- Wasn't pomegranate one of the fruit that could be the fruit of the underworld based on people overanalyzing mythological and religious lore?
  
  I think so. Yes.
- Every fall I try my best to like both of those. I've always had them growing in my yard or a neighbor's and had friends who are so excited to share from their trees. I just can't. I'm thinking of making an apple butter type spread with the persimmons this year, we'll see.
  
  You have to get them to the perfect ripeness. They have to be like a gooey egg consistency. I usually keep pushing on it with my fingers until it feels like goo inside of leather. Then…. 👨🏼‍🍳👌💋

Jack fruit

Avocados

Black grapes. They're high in antioxidants, actually taste like something, and they have this great crisp, almost crunchy yet still tender consistency. I can eat a few pounds in a sitting if I don't watch out.

Froot Loops
- I too enjoy Earl Grey cereal

Persimmon!

Pomegranates. They are my favourite. Also apples.
- It's a testament to how good pomegranates are that we're willing to put up wth the hassle of eating them

MangosTEEN....because its more hip. Plus its has more letters in its name.

Good quality berries and grapes
Some berries just aren't fresh/ripe/grown. But once you get a good box of them...
I prefer the green grapes, and on the berry side I love them all: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, various regional berries

Against the mangoes I can get my hands on? Most fruit is better.
The best mangoes are the slightly tangy, firm, fibrous ones you can find in Australia. Those are absolutely unbeatable.
Here in NZ all you can find are the sickly sweet, soft, smooth fleshed mangoes which just aren't the same. Might as well buy the tins of Kesar pulp imported from India.
- You probably like mango biche. Basically unripe mangoes are exactly as you described. Tart and firm. They only become soft and yellow when they ripen. I have a mango tree in front of my house and the street guys come and pick it clean long before they ripen since mango biche is better than ripe mangoes.

Raspberries are the ultimate fruit, better than all others. A little sweetness, tart and tangy, good fibre, goes with everything. Mangoes are sickeningly sweet
- No disagreement on raspberries, but your comment makes me think you might like mangos in plain yogurt. The tartness of the yogurt works beautifully with the extreme sweetness of the mango. It tastes like a fresher more balanced version of flavored yogurts. So if you're into the flavor of mango, but the sweetness is off-putting, this could be a way to still enjoy them.
  
  The extreme sweetness is still a problem for me. I love raspberries in plain high-fat yogurt but I realize it might be a bit much for most palates in terms of extreme tartness and lack of sweetness.

A well grown mango at the perfect ripeness is unbeatable IMHO.
Jackfruit almost gets there with it's unique delicious taste.

i really love mangoes.

Oranges

I'm not really a fan. They have a certain light taste of black pepper that ruins them for me. I guess I'm sort of like the cilantro-soap people.
- Mangoes have a black pepper taste to you? I've heard of people not liking mangoes but that one is new. If they are unripe they have this kind of tree resin taste/aroma but even that varies across different types.
  
  It's not exactly black pepper. It's like mangoes and black pepper share a something, and that's enough to remind me of black pepper, if that makes sense.
  This does mean I like it enough as an ingredient - for example, I would eat mango salsa.

Perfectly ripe cherries, pitted and frozen

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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