Comments on: Mangosteen Trivia… http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:45:04 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: el_jefe http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia/comment-page-1#comment-219853 el_jefe Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:33:19 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia#comment-219853 MM...not all mangosteens sold in manila today comes from mindanao alone....there are mangosteen plantations in majayjay in laguna and lucban in quezon...mangosteen thrives well on areas with no pronounced dry season...it favors moist and cool environment and grows best under the shade of coconut trees....mangosteens produced in the uplands of laguna have no big diffrence from those grown in mindanao...the taste and sweetness is the same as in mindanao however smaller fruits are observed...it sells for 50-70 pesos per kilo on season.. MM…not all mangosteens sold in manila today comes from mindanao alone….there are mangosteen plantations in majayjay in laguna and lucban in quezon…mangosteen thrives well on areas with no pronounced dry season…it favors moist and cool environment and grows best under the shade of coconut trees….mangosteens produced in the uplands of laguna have no big diffrence from those grown in mindanao…the taste and sweetness is the same as in mindanao however smaller fruits are observed…it sells for 50-70 pesos per kilo on season..

]]> By: jojo http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia/comment-page-1#comment-160361 jojo Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:15:48 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia#comment-160361 hello MM, this blog is very interesting. I've been reading your posts and the comments for an hour now and I find myself chuckling every now and then. jade186, betty q. and moni: i don't know how to explain it but i can tap and shake coconuts and know what's inside right away. i can determine if the coconut is maayo, bungol, sagay, or gilakdan sa buwan. i think i learned this from my brothers when i was a kid. we used to "harvest" coconuts from our neighbor's hacienda while we pasture carabaos on summer afternoons back then and i thought everybody knew how to do it. i guess it comes with growing up in the farm, you just sort of "know" things without really understanding how. oh, and i noticed this has nothing to do with mangosteen! lol hello MM, this blog is very interesting. I’ve been reading your posts and the comments for an hour now and I find myself chuckling every now and then.

jade186, betty q. and moni: i don’t know how to explain it but i can tap and shake coconuts and know what’s inside right away. i can determine if the coconut is maayo, bungol, sagay, or gilakdan sa buwan. i think i learned this from my brothers when i was a kid. we used to “harvest” coconuts from our neighbor’s hacienda while we pasture carabaos on summer afternoons back then and i thought everybody knew how to do it. i guess it comes with growing up in the farm, you just sort of “know” things without really understanding how.

oh, and i noticed this has nothing to do with mangosteen! lol

]]> By: i_live2eat http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia/comment-page-1#comment-154727 i_live2eat Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:35:55 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia#comment-154727 the petals you are referring to are actually the remnants of the stigma.we always look forward to my tita's visits. she's from davao and she usually brings mangosteen fruits and candy bars as pasalubong.YUM! she also brings us the not-so-smelly variety of durian she grows in our farm there.mangosteen is already commercially grown in parts of miami, they even make mangosteen juice. the petals you are referring to are actually the remnants of the stigma.we always look forward to my tita’s visits. she’s from davao and she usually brings mangosteen fruits and candy bars as pasalubong.YUM! she also brings us the not-so-smelly variety of durian she grows in our farm there.mangosteen is already commercially grown in parts of miami, they even make mangosteen juice.

]]> By: ikawiyan http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia/comment-page-1#comment-154290 ikawiyan Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:52:48 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia#comment-154290 my husband and i tried the mangosteen that we found at a local asian market (washington state). they were so hard, we couldn't open them. good thing that we're not that far from Vancouver, B.C. we'll continue to do our yearly trip to get our fresh mangosteen fix. my husband and i tried the mangosteen that we found at a local asian market (washington state). they were so hard, we couldn’t open them. good thing that we’re not that far from Vancouver, B.C. we’ll continue to do our yearly trip to get our fresh mangosteen fix.

]]> By: veron http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia/comment-page-1#comment-154260 veron Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:08:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/mangosteen-trivia#comment-154260 Hay naku, even though the FDA approved the improt of mangosteen into the U.S. , I still do not see the fruit anywhere which is rumoured to be $10.00 a pound. Hay naku, even though the FDA approved the improt of mangosteen into the U.S. , I still do not see the fruit anywhere which is rumoured to be $10.00 a pound.

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