The health benefits of dehydrated mango

Eating dehydrated fruit is an ancient custom that today is more fashionable than ever, since it is a healthier snack than other alternatives such as French fries or chocolate bars. But what really is dried fruit? What properties and benefits can we obtain from its consumption? How can we dehydrate the fruit ourselves? Next we are going to answer all these doubts, putting the mango as the main example.

What beneficial properties does dehydrated mango have?

The dried mango or dehydrated mango is a healthy snack that we can consume daily as a substitute for all those industrial snacking foods that do not contribute anything good to our body. These are some of the properties and benefits that we can obtain if we make it our food between meals:

• A multitude of vitamins and minerals: Contrary to what many people may think, dehydrated fruit does not lose all the properties or is less healthy than natural fruit. Specifically, the mango, it concentrates in its interior phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and calcium, apart from vitamins A and B, so important for our health.
• Antioxidants: Antioxidants eliminate free radicals, which are chemical substances that release oxygen inside our cells, causing them to oxidize. Thus, consuming dried mango, we can contribute to the delay of aging of the body through these different antioxidants, such as quercetin, fisetin, astragalin, isoquercitrin, methyl and gallic gallate. In addition to prolonging the good health of our body, it will help prevent diseases such as breast and prostate cancer.
• Digestive enzymes: Dried mango is a highly digestive fruit that helps other foods that we have consumed to increase the speed of its digestion, thereby heartburn or burning is also reduced.

Profits

• A healthier heart: consuming dried mango helps reduce blood pressure thanks to its high content of magnesium and potassium. Regulates consumer cholesterol levels through fiber and vitamin C, thereby enhancing and facilitating better heart health in the future.
• Eating can burn calories: If, on the one hand, there are foods that burn more calories in the digestion process itself than those they have in themselves, there are also others, such as dried mango, that help to burn calories quickly and efficiently. Like everything, of course, this consumption must be accompanied by some physical activity.
• Healthier and stronger bones: vitamin K is the one that is responsible for successfully promoting a correct absorption of calcium for our body. Dried mango contains a large amount of this vitamin, an aspect also key to prevent and protect ourselves from diseases such as osteoporosis.

How are mango and fruit in general dehydrated?

Once the benefits and their most common properties are known, we will proceed to explain what the mango dehydration process is, in order to be able to do it ourselves at home. and thus not having to spend extra money to buy it. For this, we will need the typical utensils that can be in any kitchen and have an oven. 

These are the 7 steps that we will have to follow:

1. Choice: part where sometimes we don't pay much attention, but which is key to the final flavor. We must choose some mangoes that are at the exact point of maturity to eat. To detect it, the meat must be slightly softer. We will only need three handles.
2. Cut off: cut the mango first and then remove the peel from the pieces you have sliced.
3. Place: put a kitchen paper on the baking tray and place the mango pieces
4. Preheat a little: Let the oven preheat a bit before inserting the mangoes with the tray on a low temperature. Something between 50 and 60 degrees.
5. The moment of patience: insert the mango and heat it to that temperature, in an approximate period of between 9 and 13 hours, until they have the consistency with which you want to consume it.
6. Remove and let cool: remove them from the tray and leave cool naturally, do not put them in the fridge.
7. A good airtight container: Put it in a container that you can leave in a place that stays dry, cool and does not receive much light. If it can be an airtight glass container much better.