Ingredient · Ingredient
Mango
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Mango is a fruit — a normal, nutritious food for almost everyone.
Mango is a whole fruit eaten for centuries, providing vitamins, fibre and natural sugars. It carries no regulatory restrictions as a food ingredient, and the only real concerns are allergy in sensitive people and the sugar content for those watching blood sugar.
Why it matters
Mango is a tropical fruit eaten fresh, dried, juiced or as a flavouring in foods and drinks. In the body it acts like any fruit: it supplies natural sugars (mainly fructose and glucose), fibre, vitamin C, vitamin A precursors (beta-carotene), and small amounts of other vitamins and minerals. There is no 'mechanism of harm' to worry about for most people — it's food, not an additive or chemical.
Sources (1)
- 1.USDA FoodData Central - Mango, raw
