Comments on: Mangosteen Trivia…

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:49 +0000

Mangosteen is laden with heavy anti-oxidant that cures numerous cancers next to broccoli veggie and acai fruits…hence it is highly beneficial to our health, these foods are top-of-the line food no doubt it demands high price in the market.

High demand of these peculiar foods are increasing these days for the health conscious people to ward-off toxins absorbed by our intestines by accommulation of eating food grown synthetically.

Enjoy eating for your good health!…

By: emsy

emsy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:29:46 +0000

my grandfather taught that to me when i was little by “magically” guessing the number of seeds inside a mangoosteen. when i would ask how many seeds would be in a particular fruit, he’d take the fruit from me and turn it over and over, his face in a very convincing meditative frown and declare: “singko!” or “siete!” and always, he’s right. good thing he broke it to me afterwards. haha in Zamboanga, though, it’s hard to pick each mangosteen and turn it over because they’re sold in bunches of around 20-24 pieces. At their peak, each bunch is only php20. i miss that price here in manila!

By: el_jefe

el_jefe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:33:19 +0000

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

jojo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:15:48 +0000

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

i_live2eat — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:35:55 +0000

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

ikawiyan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:52:48 +0000

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

veron — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:08:40 +0000

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.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:18:08 +0000

emen, at the peak of a good season, you can buy this for PHP5-10 per kilo at the source in Mindanao, as little as PHP15 a kilo in Cebu… I think PHP800 a kilo is totally outrageous pricing… I hope they were at least very good… In Bangkok and Vietnam, the finest mangosteens can be as much as PHP200-300 a kilo, but they are brilliantly delicious. Elmer, in sulu and other parts of Mindanao, I understand the term is manggis, the same as Malaysian and Indonesian… but up North, I have never heard anyone use the term manggis…

By: emen

emen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:10:21 +0000

Wow, that was very interesting. =] This fruit is so expensive. The last time I bought this in Tagaytay and was sold for P400/half kilo!!! Too bad that I only tasted 4-5 pieces (1/4) of this fruit just to try it. Damn!

By: moni

moni — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:44:23 +0000

Elmer, you meant manggis is the Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia term for mangosteen?