LEICESTER, England, May 10 (UPI) -- An unripe mango is unpleasantly metallic and bitter in taste. A ripe one is gloriously sweet. The fine line between unripe and ripe can be difficult to identify, but researchers at the University of Leicester have managed to "sniff" it out.
In a new study, published this week in the journal Metabolomics, scientists describe the chemical signature of a ripe mango.