Exotic Delights: 12 Perfect Tropical Fruits for Fruit Salads

9. Mango: The King of Fruits

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Without mango, also known as the "King of Fruits," no tropical fruit salad would be complete. Mangoes have a rich, sweet taste and beautiful, golden-orange flesh that accentuates any fruit combination. When combined with rambutan, mango produces a harmonic mix of tropical flavours difficult to resist. Peel the skin and cut the flesh into cubes or slices to ready mango for your salad, so avoiding the big, flat seed in the centre. Your salad will have a fascinating mouthfeel from mango's silky, creamy texture against the more grape-like firmness of ramboutan. Depending on the kind, a ripe mango tastes sweet with traces of peach, honey, and perhaps even pine. This complicated taste sensation accentuates the milder sweetness of ramboutan, therefore enhancing your fruit salad. Mangos are quite high in vitamins A and C as well as in fibre nutritionally. It's a good addition to your dinner since it also includes digesting-helping enzymes. Choose mangoes whose fragrant scent at the stem end and yield somewhat to soft pressure. Since different cultivars might have varied coloured skin when ripe, the colour of the skin is not always a clue of maturity. Mangoes and rambouts together in your salad not only taste great but also look great. The mango's brilliant orange or yellow gives the white flesh of the rambo a striking colour contrast. This combination brings the core of tropical tastes together to produce a fruit salad that is both elegant and reviving.