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meh, very subjective, I assume author is located in India, I loved eating mangoes in China, Malaysia and Thailand (in latter two on daily ocassion) and definitely none of them were green/colorful, only good ones were the yellow ones, so the 2nd photo all varietes are immediately disqualified

btw. too sweet ain't good as well, sometimes I even liked little bit hit of sourness for change, shame here in Europe is impossible to buy good mango, only those red/green ones which taste all pretty bad

anyway I'd recommend everyone chilled dragonfruit, amazing tasty juicy fruit beating even mango and much easier to consume, can just cut it in half and eat content with spoon + no risk of anything being stuck between your teeth like with mango

never understood the appeal of Durian, it's not that interesting flavor for me, I don't mind the fragrance/smell, don't even consider it smelly, not sure why it has such bad reputation

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I do agree, it is a very subjective article. That's why I call it "research" in double quotes. The whole thing is more of an opinion piece than actual research.

Green mangoes can be good too. I don't know how those in China, Malaysia and Thailand taste, and I hope to, some day. But I can certainly tell you Sindhura tastes good even when it's green.

Also yes, too sweet is weird. That's what happened to some of the varities we tried too. I think some of those pasha pasand and such varieties fell off because they were tooo sweet. I agree with you there.

I have tried dragonfruit. Maybe the ones here aren't as good because they seem very tasteless.. Like jelly.. but tasteless? I'll still try the chilled version this weekend and report back to you, okay?

I've never tried durian too. Don't think I even want to. Have read some really nasty things about the smell.

Non-chilled dragonfruit would be probably quite bland, chilling completely changes the flavor, the cooler the better. It's same for me with gummy bears, I have them in fridge, like them chilled, but at room temperature they are meh, so can eat them only for short time after taking out from fridge.

As I said, if you wouldn't know bad durian reputation and just had blind test, you would probably not notice particularly bad smell, it has some distinct smell/fragrance, but I wouldn't call it bad. Some Czech cheese and many other European cheese varietes have way more unpleasant smell than durian, if I had to choose in what smelly enviroment I wanna be durian would for sure beat most of this European cheese.

Okayy... I get you. Have you tried half frozen grapes with sugar drizzled on them? They taste insanely better than the normal deal.

I'm in my hometown so we don't have dragonfruit here. When I go back to my work-city, I'll try the dragonfruit thing!

Thanks for the recco.

nope, I might try it, though I think they re sweet enough as they are even without extra sugar

but I remember while travelling once in India in very hot bus one fellow traveller offered me watermelon with some spice which was very interesting flavor (as interesting as salted chocolate for instance) and good combination, but never figured out what spice they used, normally I don't like watermelon at all, but together with spice it was interesting combo, could never reproduce it again :-( it will be 20 years since my visit next year

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