AVAILABLE: All year.
Mamey is legendary among Latin Americans. This football shaped fruit has coarse, brown, leathery skin. Mamey yields to a gentle squeeze when ripe and has a salmon-orange, sweet fragrant flesh. Mamey is popularly used in shakes, fruit salads, cooked in desserts, or eaten raw with cream and sugar or various liqueurs.
STORAGE: Once ripe, mamey can be refrigerated for a few days.
DISPLAY: Place with specialty produce and other tropical fruits.
NUTRITION: Source of potassium and Vitamins A and C.

Mamey

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