As expected, the early season Mangos were horrible. The Rajapuri has about 9-10 fruit in a box but three of them were rotten, five were extremely under ripe and three were just decent tasting. The first fruit was the best. Most the fruit remained green and started wrinkling. The Brix for Rajapuri ranged from 12-15%. For around $35, I was only able to eat two mediocre fruit!
A good friend notified me that there were some excellent Kesar Mangos with Brix around 21% so I picked up two boxes but again, the fruit so far has been a disappointment. The two boxes of Kesar were mostly ripe already and the packing house did a horrible job sorting the fruit based on size.
Some fruit were tiny and others were good sized. Some of the fruit were rotten inside.
I did sample a few good tasting Kesars. They tasted sweet with good flavor but the Brix only registered 16%.
The mid to late season fruit is usually much better.
In Summary, they should not be shipping crappy Mangos here. There are some people, like myself, that are aware that the early season Mangos are sub par but the Rajapuri’s in particular were picked so under ripe that only 2 out of ten Mangos were edible. For what I paid, I expect for them to at least be edible.
Simon