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How To Eat A Mangosteen

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How To Eat A Mangosteen

The mangosteen, or King of Fruits, is a rare delicacy that is usually eaten in a particular way. VideoJug shows you how to cut and eat a mangosteen. The mangosteen, or King of Fruits, is a rare delicacy that is usually eaten in a particular way. VideoJug shows you how to cut and eat a mangosteen.

Slightly smaller than a tennis ball, a mangosteen consists of a sweet white flesh resembling garlic cloves, surrounded by a hard, inedible skin which turns purple when ripe. The number of petals on the bottom of the mangosteen indicate how many cloves of flesh it will contain. Mangosteens are rarely sold fresh in Western countries, usually only as a gourmet dessert.

Step 1: Cut

Preparing a mangosteen for eating is extremely simple. Using a sharp fruit knife, cut through the skin of the mangosteen in a circle around the centre of the fruit. Only insert the knife deep enough to get through the skin. Once you feel that the knife has reached the cavity containing the flesh, don't cut any deeper as you will be cutting into the flesh. Another way of cutting the skin to make for a more attractive presentation, is to slice off a thin layer of skin in a band around the centre of the fruit, and then cut through the skin in a zigzag pattern to create a jagged edge.

Step 2: Open

Once you have cut all the way round the skin of the mangosteen, you can then simply pull away the bottom part of the skin. Serve the mangosteen like this, with the flesh nestled in the top half of the skin. Then to eat it simply scoop the cloves out with a spoon and enjoy.

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  3. woodysgomangosteen

    The Mangosteen fruit is The Queen of fruit and when turned into juice is high in Nutrients and Xanthones. We use the fruit juice for our family with great results. It helps with so many different type of conditions, from the inside to the outside....its the whole fruit wrapped into a bottle:) Thanks for a great idea about having a video displaying the fruit. Lisa from woodys.gomangosteen.com

  4. Sapphira

    the king of fruits in Malaysia is durian ; mangosteem is the queen of fruits

  5. gofractal

    As for the King vs Queen discussion. If you are from the west, you will most likely subscribe to the story about Queen Victoria, and the mangosteen will be known as the Queen of Fruits. However, you could also subscribe to the story about Buddha, who called the mangosteen the King of Fruits. So - it all depends where you come from and what you believe in. In the end it is the same fruit :-)

  6. nirmalsuki

    Mangosteens are not rare where I am from (Sri Lanka), but you get it only in some parts of the country, and it's a seasonal fruit. We never use any utensils to eat the stuff. As long as we can get the skin off, well, that's it.. Eat away.. On a more humourous note, my mother once stopped a British lady from unwittingly eating the skin of a mangosteen (she had not eaten the flesh :D)

  7. Anonymous

    those of you who have abundant mangosteen sources are very lucky, I tried it today and it is really lovely. I wasnt expecting much but what a great fruit! Will be getting some whenever i spot them in the shops !

  8. Anonymous

    yup,its the queen of fruits,&is not as rare as the narrator says,well,at least its not rare in malaysia,since we have 2 mangosteen trees beside our house..&yeah,asians do not use knives to open the fruit.but its not a bad way,since the juice may stain hands,even clothing &is hard to come off.^^

  9. koihime

    From Asia. And never seen anyone eat them without a knife. At least at my place.

  10. Eudaimonia

    They make eating mangoteen so complicated to eat. All I do is press the bottom and the top of the Mangoteen together to get it opened. I don't need a knife to open mangoteen and that's how asian eat it.