Garcinia mangostana

Dear Reader,

This blog is about a fruit.  I will tell you all about this fruit and someday maybe you can come to Thailand and taste it.   

There are a lot of different kinds of fruit here in this kingdom.  Sometimes when I do not have something better to blog about I will blog about the different fruits. 

Today you will learn about a little fruit named mangosteen, pronounced mangosteen.  The scientists like to call it garcinia mangostan.  I just call it a mangosteen.  The Thai people do not call it a mangosteen or a garcinia mangostan.  They call it a Mang kut.

The fruit experts say it probably originated in Indonesia. 

They have a sweet sour white flesh inside with consistency somewhere between a grape and an orange.  You can peel them with your bare hands.  The flesh is sectioned like an orange. 

This delicious fruit rarely finds its way to places like North America and Europe because the authorities are frightened of the insects that might be imported as well.  I guess they are more afraid of some fruits than others. 

Now after reading about the Mangosteen I hope you come to Thailand on your next vacation so you can have a taste adventure.

One more thing, this fruit is not recognized by the spell check on Microsoft Word.