Medicine and Health related Information

Mangoes do come in every summer season but due to early summer this year mangoes are seen in every corner of the street specially in India. It is still the season for raw variety but for our surprise we can find vendors selling yellow mangoes claiming they are fully developed. Easy guessing these are artificially ripened mangoes. One can understand by the taste of the mango. Artificially ripened mangoes looks yellow in color but are often not sweet. Such mangoes are unsafe for you. There are chemicals which are used to ripen the mangoes which causes irritation, rashes and might harm the body in long run. Ripened mangoes can affect the gastro-intestinal tract, the kidney and the liver. There effects may not be seen immediately but later on you may face problems like irritable bowel, soft stools, etc.
Doctors do recommend seasonal fruits because they do contain the exact amount of nutrition required by the body. For example melons are melons are recommended by Doctors during summer season as they contain high water quantity. But when it comes to artificially ripened fruits they do have very low quantity of nutrients and such fruits are not beneficial or useful for us.
People who are diabetic, who are suffering from obesity should specially avoid out-of-season fruits because in natural fruits we can trace the amount of nutrients present in the fruit and its calorie content but in artificially ripened fruits the nature of the nutrients or the sugar may differ when compared to the natural fructose and a varying quantity of calorie can be seen. It becomes tricky to maintain the patients dietary needs..
So be careful this summer season when you buy mangoes. Try to pick medium-sized mangoes which look natural and have pleasant smell