Eating a mango fresh and dripping with juice is an exquisite experience in stickiness.
Few fruits can compare.
More mangoes are eaten fresh worldwide than any other fruit, and yet many northern hemisphere dwellers have never seen one. The mango did not rapidly venture far from its home the fruit is highly perishable, its seed prone to decay rapidly. Florida mango growing was steadily increasing over the years until the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Hundreds of mango trees were blown down in the storm. Production now is at about 5.5 million pounds.