Maprang

Have you eaten them before?
This is my first.
I spotted them at the supermart few days ago and outta curiosity, I bought a pack home.

Did a search online & this is what I got…

Source - http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/maprang.htm

• Green, to orange-yellow resembling a mango, but slightly smaller.
• Flavor is sour to sweetish.
• Popular in Southeast Asia.

Description:

• Large tropical tree to 90ft.
• There are both sour and sweet clones.
• Fruit ripening takes 6-9 months from flowering.

Propagation:

• Usually by seed, although there is some clonal selection
  through grafting.
• It is possible to graft the maprang onto mango, and probably
  other Mangifera rootstock.
• Seedlings fruit in 6-8 years.

Uses:

• The fruits are eaten fresh.

Native Range:

• Native to Malaysia and Western Java.
• The maprang is commercial grown in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
  

These so called baby mangoes do have a slight taste resemblance to their look-a-like.
The first few fruit I tried were a mixture of both sour & sweet combined.
Hence, I packed & left them in the fridge, hoping they will ripen further.

Earlier, when I checked on them, magic happened; now the fruit is soft to touch & the skin had turned slightly transparent.

The result - they became sweet & juicy, but don’t expect a lot of flesh though cuz the stone is really ridiculously huge for such a small fruit.