How Often Do You Take Mangoes?
The importance of fruits cannot be overemphasized, fruits are essential for improvement of the human immune system. Mango fruit is gotten from the mango plant. The plant consist of the stem, leaves, fruits and root. Mango trees can grow from 9 to 20m tall.
This article shall focus on the fruit of the mango plant. In the course of this article, I shall tend to cover the following objectives:
Introduction to Mango Plants.
How to cultivate the Mango and lastly,
The health Benefits of Mango.
Introduction to Mango Plants.
Mango is one of the most cultivated fruit crop. it belongs to the plant kingdom. The botanical name for Mango is Mangifera Indica. it belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae.
These group of flowering plant has over 860 species with cashew and mango as one of its specie. It is commonly known for its flower growth and it bisexual nature. male flowers occurs on some part of the plant and female flowers are on others.
The botanical name for Mango is the Mangifera Indica.
How To Cultivate Mango plants.
Mango plant is cultivated from it seeds. The mango fruit has a seed in its endopart.
It is very essential to take note of the following factors.
The essentials are good and healthy seeds, favorable soil condition and water and sunlight.
Good And Healthy Seeds
Cultivating healthy seeds of mango will gives rise to fresh and nice mango fruits. To cultivate a healthy mango seed, you will have to find a nearby mango tree to examine the one that produces good fruits.
However, if this may seem impossible, you can proceed to the fruit vendor and choose a better fruit.
Favorable soil condition
This crop is best grown on loamy soil due to the high availability of soil nutrients.
How to cultivate Mango
The following steps are important steps to planting mango.
Cut of the fleshy part of the fruit.
Cut the seed coverage carefully to view the seeds.
Mango can be planted via two methods; they are: drying the seeds and soaking in water.
The preferred method of cultivation is drying because soaking the seed will aid moisten it but the risk of encountering mold is possible to occur.
You can use up to a month on the process of getting the seed ready for planting.
You necessarily have to undergo the following steps.
Dry the seed by placing it is a sunny space for a period of three weeks after that period try to open the seed via it half.
Open the seed and leave for one week.
Use a pot or a can to fetch some soil.
Dig a little inch and place the seed with its buttom faced down.
Water the seed daily for about 5- 6 weeks.
You can transplant to a soil where it thrives better in growth.
Health Benefits of Mango
The following are the health benefits of mango fruit;
Mango is rich in Vitamin C
Vitamin c is an essential vitamin need for boosting the body immune system level. The immune system helps the body fight against diseases and sicknesses,
Healthy Skin
Mango fruit has some amount of protein content, protein helps to replace worn out body tissue with a fresh one.
Source of Energy
Mango fruit contains some amount of carbohydrates which yields energy to the body.
Conclusion
This article has been able to present a brief about mango and how to grow them. It also contains the health benefits to taking them.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249901/#:~:text=Mangifera%20indica%20(MI)%2C%20also,the%20flowering%20plant%20family%20Anacardiaceae.
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Cool post @emmainiobong3! Here where I live, mango trees grow too! Also in the most random spots. Hey I don't mind... now since I read this post! When I saw in this post that mango trees can grow up to 9 or 20m tall, my mind was blown. Speaking about my mind being blown, please let me pick up the pieces of my mind that are laying on the floor, thank you!