The maprangs are worse than mango for the sap to cause a contact dermatitis and blistering that is uncomfortable and visible.I have reacted to mango sap a few times but maprang sap caused me big problems when I trimmed my old tree and even when I have picked fruit and had sap on me.
BK Wan and mayon chid look the same and only differ in acid levels with Wan being sweet even before going orange.There are big fruited and rounder lines of both and you have to eat them to know which they are.Bigger fruit seem to have a proportionally higher flesh yield.A small fruited mayon chid in a park near me has only thin flesh.
I see, so there are also small mayongchids. I'm learning more every day
In Bangkok all the big mayongchids (or lookalikes) are called mayongchid. The small ones are the maprangs and are much cheaper.
It is hard to find the very sweet ones because the farmers all try to get the highest price and send them as soon as possible to Bangkok. One of these days the price will drop when the markets overflow with them. For mango's (ndm-gold) that allready has started now.
Strange thing is that my supplier from Nakhon Nayok said that many farmers had no mayongchids at all this season. I don't know if that's true but i see loads of them at the moment. But for the small maprangs you have to go to the local markets in poor neighbourhoods. There they make big fun about me because i speak thai to them
Guess they have never seen that before.
My supplyer grows his mayongchids from grafted tree's which he got from the Royal farms.
After peeling some kg of mayongchids my fingers got yellow and i couldn't get it off easy. I never had that from peeling many mango's.
Foodland supermarket also sells maprang/mayongchid but just calls them marian plum. I wonder which one that is, i guess not mayongchid but they are big.
Today i will ask my professor neighbour about the difference, let's see what he says.
