🔬 Measured · Not Promised

How sweet are
our mangoes?

We took a refractometer to every variety we grow. The numbers told a story we already knew but had never put on paper. Tree-ripened, naturally raised mangoes are dramatically sweeter than what shows up in supermarket boxes.

🍯 Panduri reads 23° Brix  ·  supermarket average is 14-16°
The numbers

Variety-by-variety, by sugar content

Each variety was tested with a handheld optical refractometer on fully ripe fruit, on the same day, from the same harvest batch. Numbers are typical readings — actual fruit varies slightly with rain, sun, and tree.

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Kesar Saffron-orange pulp. Rich, fragrant, and noticeably sweet.
★★★★☆
21° Brix
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Dasheri Honey-sweet, fragrant, fibre-light.
★★★★☆
20° Brix
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Himayat Rich, rounded, and the connoisseur's pick.
★★★★☆
20° Brix
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Banginapalli Balanced, reliably sweet, the everyday crowd-pleaser.
★★★☆☆
18-19° Brix
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Typical supermarket mango Picked green, gas-ripened, weeks in transit.
★★☆☆☆
14-16° Brix
☝ For reference: a ripe banana reads ~18° Brix. A glass of orange juice reads ~12°. Our Panduri at 23° is in the same league as ripe figs and fresh dates.
The science (briefly)

What is Brix?

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1° Brix = 1g sugar per 100g juice

A sweetness reading you can trust.

Brix measures dissolved sugar in fruit juice using a handheld optical refractometer. It's how wineries grade grapes, how farmers know when to harvest cane, and how serious produce buyers spec quality.

A few drops of mango juice on the prism, a glance through the eyepiece — the number is right there. It doesn't lie. It also doesn't care about brand stories or price tags; the only thing that lifts a mango's Brix is time on the tree.

The cheap mangoes you find in supermarkets are almost always picked green and ripened with calcium carbide or ethylene gas. Those processes soften the fruit and trigger colour change — but they don't add sugar. The Brix never catches up.

Watch

The refractometer test, live

A few drops, a quick squeeze, and the number speaks for itself.

Filmed on the farm in Jangaon, Telangana 🌴
Per-variety readings

Photo evidence

Refractometer readouts from each variety. Tap any photo for the full-size shot.

Photos pending upload — placeholders shown until then.
Why ours score higher

Three things you can't fake

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Tree-ripened

Mangoes only convert starch to sugar while attached to the tree. We let nature finish the job — we don't rush it.

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Zero carbide

Calcium carbide softens skin and changes colour but adds nothing to the fruit. We don't use it. Ever.

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Harvest-to-dispatch in 24 hrs

No cold storage, no warehouse holding. Picked, packed, shipped — your mango is on a truck within a day of leaving the tree.

Taste the difference for yourself

Order any variety today and check the Brix yourself with a ₹500 pocket refractometer. We'd love to see your reading.

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