Manggis – Mangosteen/ Queen’s Fruit
Manggis is one of my favourite fruits. I love the intense colour purple of the fruit. The fruit is juicy and sweet. One of the unique things about it is that you can tell how many segments inside the fruit from the number of bits on the bottom of the fruit. You would get 5 to 7 segments inside. The more segments inside the better, because that means that the segments are small that you can eat all without worrying about chewing the seed.
Facts about Manggis (I didn’t know about):
- It is originated from Indonesia
- When it first legal in America, it sells for £11 each
- It was served as a delicacy in US
After reading about Manggis, I learnt about Aril, a word describing is any specialized outgrowth from the attachment point of the seed that covers or is attached to the seed.
Reviews on Manggis as a fruit
both sweet and somewhat tangy, and both juicy and fibrous. – exoticfruitx.com
whose leathery maroon shell surrounds moist, fragrant, snow-white segments of ambrosial flesh – New York TImes
Its latin name is Garcinia mangostana
If my drawn illustration is not good enough, here is a picture of one I picked up from China Town.
My wife as a jam of this fruit. I`ve never even heard of it. I`ll try it and leave my teast buds do the testing. and reply.
jam? wow. I wonder how they make this. Its not exactly the easiest fruit to make jam out of. Where did she get it? or did she make it her self. I have made raspberry, blackberry jam and marmalade, but I couldn’t picture how to make mangosteen jam.. Interesting. Do let us know.
I didn’t know it’s called queen’s fruit.. interesting.
Yes, because of the story that Queen ELizabeth I loved it so much. =D thanks for your comments by the way.