Alphonso is widely recognised as the best mango variety available. These are small, roundish mangoes with a smooth, pale orange to deep orange peel. The flesh is an intense reddish-orange colour, smooth and almost fibreless. The flavour and sweetness are intense, exquisite, rich and unique, well worth tracking down to your local Indian store.

Kesar is Indias second mango variety in terms of exports, but second only to Alphonse which happens to be the best on the planet! Kesar is a small to medium fruit, roundish in shape, and relatively unexciting in appearance, being a dull, slightly mottled yellow colour. Inside it is a different matter: a deep yellow flesh, smooth and fragrant with intense sweetness you will not be disappointed when they are in peak condition. The medium sized stone has minor fibre attached which does not detract from enjoyment. Fruit medium oblong with a red blush on the shoulders, good keeping quality, ideal for pulping and juice concentrates, early season variety.

Best varieties of the country; fruit size is small-medium, shape is elongated with yellow fruit colour, flesh is fibreless; good keeping quality; mainly used for table purpose; susceptible to mango malformation. Dashehari-51- regular bearing and yielding clone of Dashehari. The flavour and sweetness are exceptional and they appear to be popular with supermarkets, probably because the sources are easier to control.

The skin colour is green, even when ripe, and is overlaid with characteristic corky dots covering the fruit surface. As with most other fine dessert mangos of India, 'Baneshan' is best harvested hard-green and ripened at room temperature. In this manner one can expect an exceptional, multi-levelled flavour, from the deep and resinous to the intensely sweet. go mango

Citrus limetta is a species of citrus. InIndia, it is commonly called as Moosambi (Kannada) and Bathaya Kaayalu (in Telugu).