Fruits

The mango is a very important fruit in India and is often called the “king of fruits.” It tastes delicious, has a great flavor, and smells nice. It’s also packed with Vitamins A and C. Mango trees are strong and can grow in different kinds of soil without needing too much care. People use mangoes when they’re not ripe as well as when they’re ripe. 

When mangoes are raw, they’re used to make things like chutney, pickles, and juices. When they’re ripe, people eat them as a dessert, and they’re also used to make squashes, syrups, jams, and jellies. The seed of the mango has some good fat in it, about 8-10%, which can be used to make soap and can replace cocoa butter in making candy. 

India sells a lot of mangoes to other countries like the UAE, Bangladesh, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Kuwait, the USA, and some other countries in the Middle East. But they only export a few kinds of mangoes, like Alphonso and Dashehari. Even though India grows almost half of the world’s mangoes, only about 15% of the mangoes grown in India are sold in the global market. 

Mangoes make up about 40% of all the fruits India sells to other countries. There’s a lot of potential to grow more mangoes and get more mangoes from the trees in India. 

The pomegranate is a fruit that many people like in warm areas around the world. It originally comes from Iran. You can find pomegranate trees growing from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, but they do best in places that don’t get a lot of rain, like Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Rajasthan. Some other states where you can find pomegranates growing, though not as much, are Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. 

Pomegranates are tough fruits that are usually round and have a fleshy, tubular part at the top and a tough skin. Their color can range from deep pink to bright red. 

People like pomegranates because they can make a refreshing juice from them, and these fruits are thought to have some good effects on health. Some studies suggest that drinking juice from red fruits like grapes, berries, and pomegranates might lower the risk of heart disease, stroke, some cancers, and aging. Pomegranate juice has lots of things that are good for you, like anthocyanins (which make it red), some types of acids, and other substances that help fight off bad things in your body. 

The part of the pomegranate that you eat has acids, sugar, vitamins, polysaccharides, polyphenols, and minerals. In some places like Iran, lots of people enjoy drinking the juice. In northern India, people dry the juice sacs in the sun for a while, turning them into a spice called “anardana.” 

Grapes come from Western Asia and Europe and were brought to India around 1300 A.D. by invaders from Persia. They grow on vines that climb and have been around for a long time. 

Grapes are a type of fruit that doesn’t ripen after picking. They grow on vines with leaves that are usually simple or sometimes have cuts or edges. They have greenish flowers in groups and the fruit has a lot of juicy or fleshy parts, seeds, and skin. Each grape usually has four seeds. People eat grapes fresh or use them to make things like jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, and even grape seed oil.  

Most of the grapes grown around the world are used to make wine, about 71%. About 27% are eaten fresh, and only 2% are dried. But in India, about 90% of the grapes are eaten fresh because they’re good for that, even though some are used for making wine. The rest are mostly dried to make rais