Young Coconut, Green Mango or Ripe Pomelo?
By Thelma
@thelme55 (76476)
Germany
March 27, 2017 11:16am CST
Yes, I had to choose one of these fruits this afternoon. My nephew was here and he climbed our coconut tree at our back yard. He harvested more than a dozen young coconuts.
Then I asked him to please harvest the few green mangoes in the front yard before the outsider kids throw stones on them. Besides that I was craving for those green mangoes and my mouth watered from just looking at them.
Before my nephew went home, my father asked him to harvest the ripe pomelos in our front yard as well before they get rotten and fell down on the ground. Pomelo is his favourite.
It was a hard time for me choosing which one I ate first. I didn’t want to eat them after the other as would be having stomach trouble. I chose the green unripe mangoes. I peeled 1 of the mangoes, sliced them and ate them while blogging. Boy! They were sour. I still ate slices of them with salt and vinegar mixture. I know, it is a weird taste. That's the Filipino way of eating sour fruits....with salt and sometimes with vinegar.
Anyway, tomorrow will be the young coconuts for me to devour. Scrape the young coconut fruits, eat them and drink the coconut water. Now I am craving for the coconut water.
Which one of the 3 fruits have you tried if I were you? Have you eaten green mango? With what?
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
28 Mar 17
I am allergic to sour things. I could manage a segment of the pomelo and have any number of tender coconuts
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
28 Mar 17
Better be safe than sorry @allknowing. There are also sweet pomelos. Tender coconuts are delicious besides being healthy.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
28 Mar 17
Oh now you make me feel like going back home to have some young green coconut ..
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
1 Apr 17
@thelme55 We were there from the 2nd of Feb to the 12th of March this year .. We've just been back home here in Au for three weeks now..
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
like you, i eat unripe green mangoes with rock salt and vinegar, the sourest vinegar there is, like sukang Iloko. i like coconut water and scraped young coconut meat. when with ice, it quenches my thirst. the pomelo? well, i like it when it is soaked with vinegar and sprinkled with salt.
among the 3, i still prefer the coconut. suited for summer.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
28 Mar 17
@thelme55 either way, when we eat sour fruits, they always get along with salt and vinegar. sometimes too, an unripe mango gets sweet when dipped with refined sugar.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
30 Mar 17
@ridingbet so true. That is our way of eating sour fruits.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
28 Mar 17
Well, we have the same taste @ridingbet. I have not tried pomelo soaked with vinegar and sprinkled with salt. Is it an Ilocano way of eating pomelo? Like you, I prefer coconut more than unripe sour mango. It just happened that I was craving something sour.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
28 Mar 17
we love green mangos.We make it into a chutney with mint leaves, salt and chilly and a bit of sugar.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
31 Mar 17
Wow! I would like to try green mango chutney. Thanks @responsiveme.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Mar 17
@thelme55 let me know how it turns out, and oh put in a small bit of garlic too.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I have never tasted a green mango but I am sure I would love it.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
31 Mar 17
I hope you can try this in the future @BelleStarr
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@RasmaSandra (73473)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Mar 17
Never tried any of them. Sounds interesting. We do have pomelos here at the stores but they are expensive and at times when you buy them they are not really ripe and you cannot get them to ripen well at home.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
28 Mar 17
I agree with you @RasmaSandra that is why I don't buy pomelos in Germany. They are so expensive and they taste not so yummy compared to what we have in my home country Philippines.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 Mar 17
What are pomelo? Not had a mango green but we eat green plums with salt and crab apples that are sour too!
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
28 Mar 17
A pomelo is a citrus fruit @andriaperry but it is smaller than grapefruit. What are crab apples?
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
29 Apr 17
The pomelo would be my first choice and would be eaten alone @thelme55