Mangifera foetida Lour, scientifically known as Mangifera foetida Lour, is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae. This fruit is found in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam… In Vietnam, the fruit is considered a specialty of the Northwest mountainous region.
The tree is large, about 15-20m high, the leaves are single, staggered, elongated towards the base, the leaf surface is smooth. Small white flowers grow in double clusters at the tops of branches, narrow lanceolate petals, 3 times longer than sepals. One reproductive stamen is as long as the petal, and the other 3-4 are slightly shorter. When ripe, the fruit is yellow, the flesh is succulent. Muong tree has two main fruiting seasons in March-June and November-October.
Muoi fruit is shaped like a mango, many people confuse it
Muoi fruit has the same shape as a normal mango but is only half the size, some say that it is exactly the same as a stick fruit, but their taste is completely different. Mango fruit when green has a sour, acrid taste, but when ripe, it is sweet and contains a lot of water because their flesh is much thicker. When unripe, the fruit is used to cook soup or pickle, when ripe, it becomes a refreshing fruit for many children in remote mountainous areas.
Like many other wild fruit trees, people in the mountainous areas of the province said that Muong fruit is a capital that grows wild quite a lot. In the past, it was only possible to find it on the edge of the forest near the house, but recently, because people cut it down to get land for agricultural crops, it has become increasingly rare. Therefore, now people have to go deep into the forest to find the fruit.
The fruit is ripe when ripe.
From a wild fruit, the fruit is now “hunted” on the market. According to Ms. Huynh Thi Thanh Loan (37 years old, Hanoi), who specializes in selling Muoi fruit on a fanpage, said: “The tree grows in the forest, so it’s clean from the table, but it’s very difficult to get it… the whole size of an old tree, each branch a few fruits, but not the wrong ones like the mango tree”.
Ms. Loan said that in order to have goods to sell, she had to ask her family in Dien Bien to pick and pack Styrofoam boxes to transport by bus to Hanoi. Normally, each batch of goods she only collects from a few dozen pounds, enough to pay customers who have pre-ordered.
When green, the fruit can be cooked in soup
“Before this fruit was eaten by few people, mainly for viewing pleasure, but now it is sold on both sides of the road and in traditional markets in their hometown, many people buy it because they are curious about the taste of the fruit. strange fruit. That’s why more people know about this fruit, “said Loan. Even, this fruit is also exported to China border gate and further provinces such as provinces in the Mekong Delta.
In the fruit contains a lot of starch, sugar, gum, organic acids mainly citric acid, carotene 121 to 363.8mg in 1,000g, vitamin C 13.2-80mg%, vitamin B… very good for health strong.
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