Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Scent
- Weak aroma.
- Firmness
- firm
- Fibre
- Little fibre
These named mango varieties are worth comparing at similar ripeness; a mango that ships well doesn't necessarily taste best.
sensory study · Southern Florida fruit from Homestead, Miami and Canal Point; University of Florida evaluation in Gainesville · 2019, 2021
Read the evidence
In the report’s aggregation of consumer responses to 19 southern Florida mango cultivars, Edward ranked highest, followed by Rosigold and Palmer. Samples for tasting were ripened at 20°C and 95% relative humidity and were not given the hot-water treatment used in separate shipping trials.
- Fruit tested
- Commercial export maturity stage 2 of 5 by flesh color, then ripened; peeled cut pieces for tasting
- Growing conditions
- Research collections and one commercial orchard; fruit ripened in controlled rooms.
- Varieties compared
- Edward, Rosigold, Palmer, Tommy Atkins
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2021
How to spot it
- Flesh
- orange, yellow
- Shape
- elongated
- Size
- medium
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- agrodan.com.br ↗
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- BR
lateregion: AU-QLD
era.daf.qld.gov.au ↗Context & source
- /observation/region
- AU-QLD
- /observation/method
- extension_description
Origin & family
Where Palmer began
Recorded origin
Florida
United States
Family tree
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On the label
Produce label codes recorded for Palmer
Organic labels add a leading 9.
Shared by Tommy Atkins and Kent and Palmer and Haden
Field notes
Original source notes
- season timing
- late · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- sweetness
- high · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- fibre
- scarce · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- size
- medium · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- weight
- 400–500 g · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- shape
- elongated · Queenslandera.daf.qld.gov.au ↗
- flesh colour
- orange, yellow · Floridamango.ifas.ufl.edu ↗
- aroma
- Weak aroma. · Floridamango.ifas.ufl.edu ↗
- texture
- firmmango.org ↗
Harvest calendar · Brazil
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- BR
Other mango varieties
Photos
Asit K. Ghosh ThaumaturgistCC BY-SA 3.0 This is a photo of the display of Palmer mango at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival