Taste & texture
- Flavour
- sweet
- Used for
- used for pulp and concentrated juice
Mango varieties ripen at different speeds on the counter.
instrumental study · Orchard lots from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu, India · 2010
Read the evidence
The seven-cultivar Indian study found texture changes over ten days to be cultivar- and harvest-stage dependent. Later-harvested fruit generally had lower firmness; the reported rate of textural decline was greatest in the Maldah lot and lowest in Banganapalli.
- Fruit tested
- Fresh fruit sampled at early, middle and late harvest dates and naturally ripened
- Varieties compared
- Alphonso, Banganapalli, Chausa, Dashehri, Kesar, Maldah, Neelam
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2013
How to spot it
- Skin
- shoulder blush
- Shape
- oblong fruitround
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
nhb profile
- summary
- An early mango used for pulp and concentrated juice; NHB describes an oblong fruit with a shoulder blush.
- regional scope
- States listed in the horticultural variety guide; not breeding origins or measured production areas.
- source name
- Kesar
- named states
- Gujarat
Other mango varieties
Photos
BetelgeuseCC BY-SA 3.0 Mango fruit. Kesar variety, India