Have you ever heard of a champagne mango? My wife and I had them when we toured a farm in Hawaii where their goal wasn't actually to grow / sell fruit, but to replenish the nutrients in the soil that were wrecked by sugar cane plantations. Anyway, the guy pulls these mangoes straight off the tree and tells us they're really fibrous so you can't eat them like a regular mango, but you can mash it up in the skin then drink it like a juice box. He tossed me the one he was mashing up as a demo while explaining all this then told me to bite the top off and drink. As soon as my teeth broke the skin, juice started gushing out onto my shoes and the ground. The juice from that mango is easily like top 3 things I've ever eaten. Both the amount of flavor and the amount of juice that came from it were unbelievable.
Where I live, we can get good mangoes, so they may win. But a good watermelon is my favorite fruit, and the occasional perfectly ripe apricot or peach I have tasted were both better than mango, they are just never ripe in the shops here, picked too early I think so they go straight from underripe and hard as rocks to mealy and unpleasant.
Perfectly ripe peaches (and other stonefruit)
Nothing. A mango is literally heaven. So juicy.
Pineapple. When I lived in Brazil I'd buy a fresh pineapple every week and it was heavenly. Easier to cut than a mango. The taste is debatable, I'd lean towards the tart tongue-dissolving pineapple, but hard to argue with the texture of a mango.
Banana
Team strawberry
A good kaki Edit: sorry, persimmons they are called in english i think
I love the kind of mangoes I used to get in the tropics. Small, very sweet, yellow skin with soft fibers. I'd plock them directly from any tree around me. The skin itself was soft and sweet so no peeling needed.
There's another kind of mango that locally we called "manga". It's bigger, often with reddish and greenish colors mixed with the yellow. It's more fibrous and significantly less sweet. I really don't like these, but it's all I can get where I live now, possibly because the ones I like are harder to preserve and export.
Strawberries
Manstays
Tangerines, all day long.
A good grapefruit is so juicy and sour.. I love them!! I peel them like an orange and devour it like a ravenous wolf tearing flesh from bone.
Raspberries are also frikkin amazing. I remember as a kid, we went to a farm where you could pick your own, and I just ate so many while picking that I got sick in the field and couldn't get up. 10/10 would absolutely do again.
But honestly.. now that I think about it, I may choose a good mango over both. 🤔 But still. All 3 are excellent and amazing fruits! I wish I could try more delicious fruits I haven't had yet!
If every story was about mangoes, then every story would be better.
Strawberries
grapefruit
MangosTEEN....because its more hip. Plus its has more letters in its name.
Against the mangoes I can get my hands on? Most fruit is better.
The best mangoes are the slightly tangy, firm, fibrous ones you can find in Australia. Those are absolutely unbeatable.
Here in NZ all you can find are the sickly sweet, soft, smooth fleshed mangoes which just aren't the same. Might as well buy the tins of Kesar pulp imported from India.
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Jack fruit
Avocados
Black grapes. They're high in antioxidants, actually taste like something, and they have this great crisp, almost crunchy yet still tender consistency. I can eat a few pounds in a sitting if I don't watch out.
Good quality berries and grapes
Some berries just aren't fresh/ripe/grown. But once you get a good box of them...
I prefer the green grapes, and on the berry side I love them all: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, various regional berries
All of them.
Passionfruit
Perfectly ripe cherries, pitted and frozen
i really love mangoes.
It's hard to compare apples and mangos, but if we're gonna consider favorite tropical fruits, I friggin love fresh mangosteen. It's like a little fruity Bob-bom. Smooth and silky texture, creamy sweet flesh and just fantastic. They don't seem to travel well, unfortunately.
Or fresh pineapple.
I had fresh pineapple off a farmer's cart in the tropics two decades back. Afterward, I couldn't eat pineapple in the US for almost three years. It was so much better than the canned or grocery-store stuff there was just no comparison.
Plantains when they're fried.
By themselves, mangoes are pretty top tier
Oranges
A well grown mango at the perfect ripeness is unbeatable IMHO.
Jackfruit almost gets there with it's unique delicious taste.
Feijoa
No fruit is better than mangos.
Mangoes aren't bad, IMHO, but if I had to give up a fruit permanently, I don't think that it'd be that near the bottom of my list. I'd rather keep standbys that are common in US grocery stores like like apples, oranges, pears, and kiwis.
I really like pears.
I love mango especially because it can be frozen & it doesn't breakdown the texture nor the flavour. It one of the only frozen fruits I can get from grocery store that I can eat out of the package (vs. most frozen fruit is only good for smoothies etc IMO). My favorite is plums, but only from my granma's tree. Nothing sold in stores would ever be labeled "plum" if it were up to me. I also like pineapple alot. Apples, oranges, peaches, while sometimes store bought you might get a good one once in a while, homegrown (or local....basically fresh) fruit has no equal. But i practically live off fruit except during the 3 winter months.
Garcinia fruit (mangosteens and such, no relation to mangoes).
My family actually had this conversation the other day. I decided it was lanzones.
every other one and none of them. fruits are distincitive. I love apples, grapes, oranges, kiwi, watermelon, etc etc
Pakistani mangoes
Especially if they are shipped in a crate that has been inconspicuously loaded onto an airplane.
Jackfruit
No one?
Anything else. Where my mango not likers at?
Peacjes
Strawberries.
Damson plum
Sex, almost.
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Apples
Define "better".
And if you are talking about anything other that nutritional value, then that would be mostly subjective - so no unique answer.
