Mango butter (Mango seeds)

Mango or Mangifera indica grows wild in India. However, it is now grown in all tropical countries. It is also the largest fruit tree in the world. Mango is edible and is appreciated for its refreshing and sweet taste as well as for its vitamin C content. But, mango seeds are also widely used. They allow us to extract butter from the mango fruit. This butter is used in cosmetics as well as in the culinary field, especially to manufacture chocolate. 

Mango butter 

Green mangoes in a mango tree 

To make mango butter, squeeze the seed found in the heart of the fruit. This allows you to obtain 100% pure and natural butter. The butter has a slightly tender texture and a creamy white color. This butter, less known than the fruit itself, is nevertheless used in beauty products. Indeed, when it comes in contact with the skin, this butter softens and conditions. But, it especially has the particularity of preventing skin from aging since it is regenerative and is an antioxidant. Regarding hair, it is both restorative and nourishing. This butter can be used pure or in the preparation of many products. However, mango butter is also known as one of the assets of chocolate. 

Chocolate and mango butter 

The March 15, 2000 regulation which was implemented in August 2003 changed the ingredients present in chocolate. Indeed, this decree voted by the European directive has allowed for the addition of vegetable fat in chocolate’s composition. Among these new components is mango butter. However, this legislation requires that the rate of these vegetable materials does not exceed 5% of the total weight of the product. The replacement of some of the cocoa butter with vegetable fats has various effects with some peculiarities: – chocolate’s resistance to heat – The marriage of flavors: this is not always the case since these fats are tasteless so as not to alter the product. – finally, a better conservation combined with a better profitability 

Although many chocolates’ basic ingredients are still cocoa and cocoa butter, products combined with other vegetable fats are also available on the market.