Mangosteen : the « Queen of Fruits »

The mangosteen fruit reveals a long and rich history. This fruit grows in abundance in Southeast Asia and in tropical regions of America and Africa.

It's a fruit so delicious. It is said that in the middle of the 19th century, Queen Victoria declared this imported specialty her favorite fruit and knighted whoever would bring her some.

This is why it’s been called the "Queen of fruits".

Used for centuries for nutrition as well as in traditional medicine, it was for a long time completely unknown to the occidental culture.

You surely wonder why you never heard about this attractive fruit. Surprisingly, this fruit had never suitably been introduced in the Occident... until today!

A Unique Fruit

As small as a peach, the mangosteen fruit (Garcinia mangostana) presents a purplish and smooth skin containing a succulent white delicate pulp. The mangosteen offers a delicious soft and sweet flavor that seduces everyone at the first taste.

The mangosteen is one of the World’s most prized fruit. It is a very fragile fruit. From the moment it is harvested, it remains fresh only 3 to 5 days.

Additionnaly to its exceptional nutritional value, the mangosteen is unique because of the wonderful properties of its rind or pericarp. Indeed, the mangosteen’s pericarp has been used for centuries by traditional healers to support numerous body functions in a variety of conditions.

And now, there is finally a way for you to benefit from all the advantages in the form of a delicious mangosteen juice!

About the Mangosteen Tree

The mangosteen tree produce fruits twice per year. It is a tree from the same plant family as the St-John's Worth, a botanical well known in natural supplements.

• Grow from 20 to 80 feet tall
• Short, thick and leathery evergreen leaves
• First harvest after 10 to 20 years
• Average lifetime yield of full-grown tree is 500
• Provide ripe mangosteen fruit up to 100 years

The mangosteen tree is ultra-tropical and cannot tolerate temperatures below 10°C or above 30°C. All attempts to grow the trees in locations north of 20° latitude have failed.