Although one of the most delicious fruits mango is also one of the messiest fruits to eat. Mango can be eaten by peeling off all the skin and then getting covered in the orange pulp while you try to slice off or cut into cubes the slippery flesh. Here is an easy and much cleaner way of eating a fresh mango.

Wash the mango before starting to cut just to get any dirt or chemicals off of the outer skin.

Place the mango on a plate and determine which sides of the mango pip most of the mango flesh lies on. The mango pip or stone is shaped like a squashed egg, so that you get a lot of the fruit on two sides and very little on the other two sides. The fattest looking sides of the mango are the sides with the least fruit flesh. Once you have guessed where the most fruit flesh lies by looking to see where the fatter sides of the mango are, then you can begin cutting.

Slice off the two sides of the mango where the most fruit flesh lies. Put the remaining piece of mango to one side as this remaining piece is mostly mango pip/stone.

Now take each of the large slices of mango and score the mango flesh into cubes without cutting all the way through to the mango skin. In other words the mango skin remains uncut but the fruit flesh is cut into cubes and still attached to the mango skin.

Now hold the piece of mango in both hands and invert the fruit so that all the little cubes seem to pop out and stand up away from the mango skin. The mango can now be held in this way and the cubes of mango can be bitten off of the mango skin. Once you have eaten your way through the mango cubes the skin is left clean and you can throw it away.

With the other piece of mango containing the pip/stone you can repeat the same procedure but this time the slices will be much thinner however they can still be eaten in the same way.

What remains is the mango pip/stone which can either be discarded or you can continue to cut pieces off of it but this will be a little messier.

Using this way of preparing a fresh mango to eat you can save yourself a lot of mess and bother especially if you are eating mango at a picnic or barbecue and don't want to get all sticky.

Bon Appetit!