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Eat pickled mangoes for your health. – Dr Harold Gunatillake “This mango tree in the picture is from Ranjani’s back garden. She complains of the attacks by the cockatoos. Friends have suggested protecting them with paper bags.” One solution is to pluck as many when unripe and make pickles healthier for people with diabetes than consuming ripe mangoes. Suggested pickling-recipe Check Daily News cookery book.-Page 222-index 896 Mango chutney Mangoes have sucrose, and people having diabetes should restrict eating ripe fruit. One-half cup of diced mango weighing about 3 ounces has roughly 12.3 grams of total carbohydrates, making up 98 per cent of a mango’s total calories. Sugar, a simple shortchain carbohydrate, accounts for more than 90 per cent of the total carb count, totalling 11.3 grams. Unripe mangoes have resistant carbs that will not get digested in your gut and absorbed, unlike sucrose and fructose (fruit sugar) in ripe ...