Kind of like a cross between a mango and a plum.

me this, I thought he was lying.

No wonder they cost more than peanuts.

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when I came to this thread prepared to type Gesundheit.

Great Simple minds, and all that.

Sorry to troble you!

I would probably be allergic to the fruit since I'm allergic to mangoes.

Once you have poison ivy, you can become allergic to mangoes. Although the mango allergy is very common, it only causes a slight rash around the mouth. So if you have bumps around your lips and you are eating mangos, you now know where it's from!

I had to skip days of school because my eyes were swollen shut from it.


Mangoes don’t bother me and I eat cashews with no problem but if I so much as look at a poison ivy plant I get reactions. Weird

I was eating like five of those large pulpy Tommy Atkins mangoes a day and stripping the fibrous pulp out with my teeth.
Ataulfo mangoes have much thinner skin and the pulp isn't as stringy, so I don't have a problem with them.

Precut mangoes are fine. The mango skin apparently contains the oil.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/13esmel/til_mangos_are_in_the_poison_ivy_family_and_the/

Which is why you will never see cashews sold in the shell. Obviously that isn't true for pistachios.

I have a number of food allergies. Fortunately, "tree nuts" is not one of them (peanuts is one, but they are actually a bean, not a nut, and some other beans will get me as well.) But I have a dear friend who is allergic to "tree nuts" but not to cashews, pistachios, or coconut. So I have done some looking up.

...that urushiol is a true sensitized. The more often one gets a reaction from contact, the less it takes next time.
There are a lot of such chemicals, many being organic anhydrides, but urushiol is not a compound like that.

could have!
Like cashews, love pistachios!

I've loved cashews all my life, did not know this.

Nature is amazing and those that realized what could be done with a growth on the bottom of an apple were amazing.

I've been kind of fascinated by jackfruit since I first learned of it from a Vietnamese friend (I had a hard time believing her); a colleague from India gave me my first (canned) sample. The video explains why it's not grown much outside its traditional zone -- it's kind of a finicky crop.

BTW, the seeds are edible too -- I leave them in the green jackfruit when I'm making Sloppy Jacks.