1.   At the peak of their season, he chooses perfectly ripe mangoes and combines them with acidic tomatoes in a Gujarati sauce spiked with cumin.

2.   A ripe mango smells sweet, has dried sap around its stem end and a few black sugar spots at the top.

3.   He can stand there in the heat of the morning, his hands wet from the juice of a ripe Haden mango.

4.   I strained it and spooned it over slices of ripe mango.

5.   It had that pleasing feeling of biting into a very ripe mango, the way its perfume seems to travel all through your head.

6.   Use firm, but ripe mango.

7.   Use a partially ripe mango for a tart-sweet flavor and a ripe mango for a very sweet flavor.