Mango

Alphonso

• #1
• Small, roundish
• Smooth flesh. Intense reddish-orange colour
• Intensely sweet and flavoured
• Virtually without fibre
• Smooth pale to deep orange peel (deepening with ripening)
• Originally from Western India
• Main production in Maharashtra and Gujarat
• Highest quality in Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, Raigad and Thane districts
• Harvested from April to early July

Chau(n)sa

• #3
• Exceptionally sweet
• Soft, succulent flesh
• Minimum of fibre
• Thin, pale, matt yellow peel (wrinkly and slightly deeper when ripe)
• Originally from the Rahim Yar Khan and Multan districts of Punjab in Pakistan
• Harvested from early July to early September (Pakistan)