The plastic layer in the mango shell is just a natural silk shell

Recently, netizens are stirring up when Facebook account named Duong Thanh Nam posted a clip saying that in Vietnam, there is a kind of plastic mango, originating from China, affecting consumer health. Vietnam.

In the clip, the mango man has just confirmed that the mango is faked, is an artificial product originating from China, because "in the county there is a layer of nylon made from essential oils or a chemical, essence somehow ".

Many people feel very confused by the information, while others take advantage of this clip to attract the attention of netizens.

However, according to information published by the Southern Fruit Research Institute (Sofri), Dr. Nguyen Van Phong (Sofri) said, about the plastic particle image that the people said according to the picture taken from the above pictures. network . this is not a rubber resin.

In fact, it is a seed coat used to cover the nuclei of kernels , all mangoes have this silk shell . However, depending on different varieties, shells This silk is thick or thin.

There has not been any research on the composition of this silk shell, but the characteristics of this silk shell have physical properties similar to a plastic layer that prevents the loss of water drying the kernel (kernel ).

In the clip, the mango man has just confirmed that the mango is faked, because "the seed has a layer of nylon made from essential oils or some chemicals, certain essences".(Photo taken from the clip).

This layer has an insulating property that helps prevent frozen kernels when it comes to lower environmental temperatures, or, in other words, to stabilize heat shock events affecting the nucleus of the grain.

In addition, this silk shell also works to protect the attack of insects, attack microorganisms harmful to the human.

With the function of such green shells, the green skin is structured as a biological polymeric resin, meeting many properties such as counteracting the effects such as mechanics, thermodynamics and resisting microbial attack. The object helps protect mango nuclei.

According to leader Sofri, as soon as there is information on the Chinese mango seeds containing nylon, this unit came to the market to buy this mango for research.

According to the picture from the clip (on the internet) and the reality of some long-standing local mango varieties in the West, mango varieties are provided in clips of very similar mango cup grown in Ha Tien or some Western and Southeast provinces.

In the West, there used to be a lot of mango varieties, however, there were about 20 mango varieties associated with the locality and popularly grown commercially such as Chu Chuong, Cat Hoa Loc mango, Thanh Ca mango, Xoai Tuong, and imported varieties like mango. Australia, Taiwan mango, mango Thai .

The remaining varieties do not have a clear age and are commonly referred to as Coc or Cu mango . these mango varieties are very small and the fruit trees are very wrong (very high natural fruits and flowers in the season of the year) ).

These mango varieties are mainly from large and large old trees scattered throughout the West and have fruits every year. People pick and sell and sell sporadically along tricycles.

According to Dr. Nguyen Van Phong, this year saw the appearance of mangoes with similar shape and very much consumed in the market of Vietnam. Therefore, it is necessary to re-examine the origin to know where this breed appears from, to have the most accurate answer.