Simple guide to identify different Mango varieties with pictures.

Alphonso

            One of the most popular of India, it is mainly grown in Ratnagiri area of Maharashtra and to a small extent parts of south Gujarat and Karnataka. It has good sugar: acid blend.  Keeping quality is good.  It is susceptible to spongy tissue.

How to identify:  Its fruits are medium sized (250g), with attractive blush towards the basal end.  Pulp is firm, fibreless with excellent orange color. 

 Banganapalli

            It is a widely cultivated, early maturing mango of south India.  It is the main commercial variety of Andhra Pradesh. Fruits have good keeping quality. 

How to identify: Its fruits are large sized, weighing on an average 350-400 g.  The pulp is fibreless, firm and yellow with sweet taste. 

Chausa

            Late- maturing variety of south India, it matures during July or beginning of August. 

How to identify: Fruits are large, weighing about 350g each.  Fruits are bright yellow with soft and sweet pulp.  It is shy bearing. 

Dashehari

            One of the most popular variety of north India, it is a mid-season mango. 

How to identify:  Fruits are medium sized, with pleasant flavour, sweet, firm and fibreless pulp.  Stone is thin and keeping quality good. 

 Kesar

            Popular in Saurashtra region of Gujarat, Kesar is an irregular bearing mango. It has good processing quality.  It has excellent sugar: acid blend. 

How to identify:: Fruits are medium sized.  Flesh is sweet and fibreless.  Fruits ripen to attractive apricot yellow color with red blush. 

Langra

            An important commercial mango variety of north India, it is biennial- bearer and a mid season variety, with good quality fruits. Keeping quality is medium. 

 How to identify:  Flesh is firm, lemon yellow in color and scarcely fibrous.  It has characteristic turpentine flavour. 

Neelum

            A heavy yielding, late season mango in south India, it has regular bearing habit.  Keeping quality is good.

How to identify: Fruits are medium sized with good flavour.  Flesh is soft, yellow and fibreless. 

Pairi

            A native to coastal Maharashtra including Goa, it is an early-maturing, heavy and regular bearer mango.  Keeping quality is poor. 

How to identify: Fruits are medium sized with good quality.  It has good flavour with sugar: acid blend.  Flesh is soft, primuline-yellow and fibreless. 

Totapuri

            Widely grown in south India, Totapuri is a regular and heavy bearing mango. Fruit quality is medium

 How toidentify: Fruits are medium to large with prominent sinus. .  It has a typical flavour and flat taste.  Flesh is cadmium yellow and fibreless. 

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10 Useful ways To Protect The BANANA Peel From Waste

1. Relieve Rashes and Itches

If you’ve got a bug bite, poison ivy rashes, psoriasis patches, you can take your banana peels and rub them into your skin. If you experience burning, which psoriasis often causes, or itching from allergic reactions and bug bites, place the banana peel into the fridge until it becomes cool. Place the chilled peel onto your skin for instant relief.

2. Eat the Peel but

If you want to eat a banana peel for an extra boost of nutrients, fiber, and antioxidants, make sure to boil the peel for 10 minutes. Then toss the peel into your juicer or blender with other fruits in order to mask any bitterness. Always make sure to clean and remove any pesticides from the peel, which goes the same for any fruit you eat.

3. Polish Leather and Silver

Rub the inside of your banana peel onto your leather shoes, jackets, or even furniture and then buff it with strokes from a soft cloth. Also mix the peel with water to use it as a silver shiner and cleaner.

4. Fertilize Tomato Plants

Wrap a banana peel around your tomato seedlings when you first plant them. As the tomato plant grows, it will absorb the nutrients from the peel throughout the season. 

5. Feed Animals

Throw your banana peel into a blender or chop it up and mix it into feed for chickens, pigs, rabbits, and other livestock. On a regular basis, it’s not ideal for domesticated pets’ digestive systems, such as cats and dogs, but the occasional banana chunk is a great way to get in essential vitamins.

6. Make Banana Vinegar

Banana peels have a bitter flavor with an underlying sugary taste to them, which is what makes it a great source for home-made vinegar to use for salads, or any recipe that calls for vinegar.  Place 2 pounds of sliced-up banana peels into 4 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Remove peels from the pot and squeeze their juices into the pot using a cheesecloth or similar material.Add four more cups of water with a cup and a half of sugar and bring it to a boil. Drop the temperature and stir for 15 minutes. Grab a canning jar and pool the liquid in along with one half teaspoon of baker’s yeast, and screw the lid onto it and place it in a cool place for seven days. Open the jar and filter out and remove any sediment, then add one cup of vinegar and leave it for four weeks.Then it’s ready to be thrown in a pot over heat for 10 minutes of pasteurization. Wash the jar thoroughly and place contents back into the jar in a dark cool place until you’re ready to use it. The  entire process takes two months, but it’s natural and completely resourceful.

7. Tenderize Meat

Take a ripe banana peel and cover your boneless, skinless cuts of meat in order to keep it from toughening or drying out during baking or even frying.

8. Feed Indoor Plants

Stick a banana peel in a large jar of water in a one part banana to five parts water ratio and after it’s soaked the nutrients out of the peel, fertilize your indoor plants with the health-enhanced water.

9. Attract Butterflies and Birds

By placing your peels on a raised platform, such as a birdhouse or tree branch, butterflies and birds will be attracted to the sweetness of the peel. However, it’s important to note bees and wasps also like the peel’s sweet contents, so it’s best to keep it away from your house or children.

10. Use In Compost

If you leave a banana peel on the counter, you’ll notice they usually break down faster than your other fruits, which is exactly why you should toss them into your compost. They’ll add plenty of nutrients into the soil for vegetable and flower gardens.

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BEST Food to include in diet to REDUCE WEIGHT naturally.

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Here is list of some natural vegetables and fruits to eat daily to reduce your fats.

1. Avocados

Avocados, high in monounsaturated oleic acid, are perfect as additions to salad, because studies show that the fats in them can increase the nutrient uptake from the vegetables 2.6 to 15-fold.

2. Sweet Potatoes

If you’re addicted to potaotoes this can be one way to take out a food that usually gets the no-no when dieting and replace it with a super foods such as this that has good things for you like fiber, Vitamin C, potassium, and Vitamin B6.

3. Cruciferous vegetables- broccoli, cauliflower,cabbage

A combination of protein, fiber and low energy density makes Cruciferous vegetables the perfect foods to include in your meals if you need to lose weight. They are also highly nutritious, and contain cancer fighting substances

Foods to avoid:

1. Pasta

2. Multi grain bread

3. Tropical fruits such as Mangoes, Ripe Pineapple

4. Cold stored food

5. Protein Bars

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Ready for Delicious Gajar Halwa?

GAJAR HALWA RECIPE
Preparation Time: 15Min
Cooking Time:1hr 45Min
Serves: 5-6

Gajar halwa - a traditional slow cooked recipe of carrot halwa with just carrots, milk, ghee, sugar and a few dry fruits.

INGREDIENTS (MEASURING CUP USED, 1 CUP = 250 ML)

• 8 to 9 medium tender juicy carrots/gajar - yields approx 4 to 4.5 cups grated carrots
• 4 cups full fat organic milk
• 4 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
• 10 to 12 tbsp organic unrefined cane sugar or regular sugar or as required
• 20-25 whole cashews/kaju
• 5 to 6 green cardamom/chotti elachi, powdered finely in a mortar-pestle or about ⅓ tsp cardamom powder
• a pinch of saffron strands/kesar (optional)
• handful of golden raisins

INSTRUCTIONS

1. rinse, peel and grate the carrots.
2. in a kadai or deep thick bottomed pan combine milk and grated carrots.
3. on a low to medium flame, bring the whole mixture to a boil and then simmer.
4. while the mixture is simmering on a low flame, keep on stirring in between.
5. the grated carrots will cook in the milk and the milk will start to reduce and evaporate.
6. when the milk has 75% reduced, add the ghee, sugar and powdered cardamom to the mixture.
7. stir well and continue to simmer and cook on a low flame.
8. do keep on stirring the gajar halwa in between.
9. towards the end, add the cashews, crushed saffron and raisins and simmer till all the milk is evaporated. switch off the burner.
10. serve gajar halwa hot, warm or you can also serve it cold.

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Best daily diet to gain weight

While most people seem to be interested only in how to lose weight and drop extra kilos, there are others who want to put on a little bit of weight and gain some kilos. Unfortunately, most such people fall prey to unnecessary supplements and unhealthy junk food to put on weight, before checking out healthy natural foods for weight gain. If you want to gain weight, don't rely on high-calorie junk foods that aren't nutritious. Choose foods that are nutrient-dense and energy-dense whenever possible. We give you 25 natural foods that will help you gain weight - the healthy way.

Diet to follow

Breakfast:

A breakfast diet could include a highly nutritious sandwich with 2 or 3 bread slices combined with lettuce, tomato and onion. Spinach and mushrooms could add flavor and taste to the dish. Complement it with a glass of milk.

Lunch

The menu for lunch could be almost anything from rice to pasta to wheat in the form of roti supplemented with vitamin and mineral rich vegetables such as carrots, beans and leafy vegetables.

Include two or three helpings of snacks in between the meals. You could chomp on an assortment of nuts in these snacks.

Dinner

For dinner, include the same amount of rice/wheat roti as lunch along with with leafy vegetables. If you want to add taste to your food, do add a bowlful of curd to your dinner or drink a glass of fresh fruit juice.  

Add this fruit to your daily diet and see the magic in few days.

• Avocado

Avocados can help you gain weight because they are high-calorie, with 322 calories in a large avocado. Avocados are high-fat fruits that are high in heart-healthy monounsaturated fats and low in unhealthy saturated fats. Add avocado slices to sandwiches and salads, and stir avocado into chicken tortilla, beef and vegetable, or butternut squash soup to make it creamier. Make guacamole with avocados, lime juice, garlic and black pepper.

It will be foolhardy to believe in such myths such as a vegetarian rich diet would fail to trigger weight gain in people. Try including foods with greater calories in your diet and you will see change within a few weeks!

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Best Daily Diet to Lose WEIGHT

To lose weight, you must eat fewer calories than your body uses

You can create lower-calorie versions of some of your favorite dishes by substituting low-calorie fruits and vegetables in place of higher-calorie ingredients. The water and fiber in fruits and vegetables will add volume to your dishes, so you can eat the same amount of food with fewer calories. Most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories and are filling.

Breakfast: Start the Day Right

• Substitute some spinach, onions, or mushrooms for one of the eggs or half of the cheese in your morning omelet. The vegetables will add volume and flavor to the dish with fewer calories than the egg or cheese.
• Cut back on the amount of cereal in your bowl to make room for some cut-up bananas, peaches, or strawberries. You can still eat a full bowl, but with fewer calories.

           

Lighten Up Your Lunch

• Substitute vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, or onions for 2 ounces of the cheese and 2 ounces of the meat in 
• your sandwich, wrap, or burrito. The new version will fill you up with fewer calories than the original.

• Add a cup of chopped vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, beans, or red peppers, in place of 2 ounces of the meat or 1 cup of noodles in your favorite broth-based soup. The vegetables will help fill you up, so you won't miss those extra calories.

            

Dinner

• Add in 1 cup of chopped vegetables such as broccoli, tomatoes, squash, onions, or peppers, while removing 1 cup of the rice or pasta in your favorite dish. The dish with the vegetables will be just as satisfying but have fewer calories than the same amount of the original version.
• Take a good look at your dinner plate. Vegetables, fruit, and whole grains should take up the largest portion of your plate. If they do not, replace some of the meat, cheese, white pasta, or rice with legumes, steamed broccoli, asparagus, greens, or another favorite vegetable. This will reduce the total calories in your meal without reducing the amount of food you eat. BUT remember to use a normal- or small-size plate — not a platter. The total number of calories that you eat counts, even if a good proportion of them come from fruits and vegetables.

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