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Mangosteen

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Eli

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Got some Trader Joe's freeze dried Mangosteen.

Quite interesting. Sweet and tart, with a nice nutty flavor from the edible pit. I would like to try a fresh fruit sometime.

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Originally posted by: Baked
Freeze dried fruit?! How do you eat them?
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You pop a piece into your mouth? lol

It's dry and airy. It dissolves in your mouth. Pretty good.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Freeze dried fruit?! How do you eat them?
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Microwave, duh. 😛

Seriously, they don't taste as well as fresh mangosteens but I don't know where you can get any around the States.

 
Originally posted by: oddyager
Originally posted by: Baked
Freeze dried fruit?! How do you eat them?
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Microwave, duh. 😛

Seriously, they don't taste as well as fresh mangosteens but I don't know where you can get any around the States.
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Check your local Asian markets. A Vietnamese market here in SLC usually has them but be prepared to pay around $14 for a dozen 🙁

This looks like the bags that we bought at our local market.
 
I can get fresh mangosteens in Chinatown in NYC.

They go for around 7-8 dollars a pound.

They have a thick, waxy (and bitter!) outer pith, similar to a pomegranate. You need a knife to get through it.

the flesh of the fruit is sectioned like a tangerine, but white.

Subtly sweet, not too tart. The taste alone isn't worth the 7-8 dollars, but the supposed nutritional benefits are supposed to be amazing.
 
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
I can get fresh mangosteens in Chinatown in NYC.

They go for around 7-8 dollars a pound.

They have a thick, waxy (and bitter!) outer pith, similar to a pomegranate. You need a knife to get through it.

the flesh of the fruit is sectioned like a tangerine, but white.

Subtly sweet, not too tart. The taste alone isn't worth the 7-8 dollars, but the supposed nutritional benefits are supposed to be amazing.
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They have very little nutritional value according to the Wiki. They're white; they contain no phytochemicals.
 
I had some mangosteen juice last week. It had a nice flavor, but it was one of those "miracle" juices that people try to sell. I don't know how much mangosteen was in it.
 
Originally posted by: queenrobot
I had some mangosteen juice last week. It had a nice flavor, but it was one of those "miracle" juices that people try to sell. I don't know how much mangosteen was in it.
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Read the Wiki article. I would be careful about Mangosteen juice. It seems some may try and put some of the purple colored outer shell into the juice, which contains xanthones. Some of which may not be bad, but some are.
 
I had some in Dalian, China last summer. Really good, but I tried the canned versions here in the USA, and they tasted nothing like the fresh ones.
 
Originally posted by: randay
if you remove the st and add a p then its called Mangopeen.
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alternatively, if you take away the "steen" then it becomes Mango, which is weird, since it's totally NOT a mango at ALL!

*sits back and digests that*
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: queenrobot
I had some mangosteen juice last week. It had a nice flavor, but it was one of those "miracle" juices that people try to sell. I don't know how much mangosteen was in it.
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Read the Wiki article. I would be careful about Mangosteen juice. It seems some may try and put some of the purple colored outer shell into the juice, which contains xanthones. Some of which may not be bad, but some are.
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more details? why would the shell be bad?
 
Originally posted by: dquan97
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: queenrobot
I had some mangosteen juice last week. It had a nice flavor, but it was one of those "miracle" juices that people try to sell. I don't know how much mangosteen was in it.
Click to expand...

Read the Wiki article. I would be careful about Mangosteen juice. It seems some may try and put some of the purple colored outer shell into the juice, which contains xanthones. Some of which may not be bad, but some are.
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more details? why would the shell be bad?
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The fruit part has almost zero nutritional value. The shell has a lot, but it is inedible so you juice the whole thing and get some of the compounds out of the shell. Some of them are good for you, others are questionable.
 
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