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Taiyo no Tamago, or Egg of the Sun, are stunning, plump, red, perfectly unscratched, and incredibly sweet mangoes that are farmed in the Miyazaki Prefecture of Japan. Every year, the best mangoes are auctioned off to the highest bidder, with the record set in 2019 at 500,000 yen for a pair - almost $4,000. But although farmers in Miyazaki dedicate an entire year ( or their entire lives?) to preparing these mangoes for auction, there is no guarantee that the fruit will fetch such a high price. So why are Taiyo no Tamago mangoes so difficult to grow? And what makes them so expensive?
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The Japanese always find a way to make a commonly grown fruit into an incredible and overcomplicated commodity.
cuz theyre gay
If u see the mango on display towards the end of the video u see similar mangos going for 16,800 yen a far cry from the 500,000 yen its a marketing play that says these mangos are the best of the best quality and its best is worth 500000 if u want u can buy his siblings for such n such.
Well I want some
@@JudgeDredd_ that's about 130 us dollars give or take for 2 mangos
Driving up the price of a single mango to 4 thousand dollars is literally insane. The amount of stupid on this planet in undeniably preposterous.
I've tried one, and I live in Hawaii where Mangoes grow everywhere, and I can tell you that it just tastes like any good mango. Like yes it's a good mango, but I think the differences start to become vanishingly minute when you scale up quality production on a fruit like this. Like 500% more effort and cost for a 5% better taste.
With the new genetically enhanced ones, and controlled indoor production, these "premium" mangos are 5th class at best..
It’s like the speed of light. When you get closer to the limit, you spend enormous amounts of energy to get an increase of one nanometer per hour.
@@gingeral253 My two guava trees make better looking fruit than those "premium" mangos..
@@luisar5755 I mean not the same fruit I guess
@@gingeral253 Like i said, the new gmo mangos here in mexico, destroy these ones easily..
No one does food marketing better than the Japanese and French
you said it
and kidding people!
Yeah but at least you can tell the difference between regular and premium in case of japan without knowing the region it comes from. In case of France things the difference is so subtle they you wouldn't know they're premium unless you're told
Korean
So many varieties of Mangoes we get here in India and they are not this freaking expensive but tastes heavenly. A fruit should remain as fruit for everyone to eat and enjoy. Alphonso and Kesar are the best with there own unique texture and flavour.
Hey I'm from India too and I agree with you bro😂
I once tried a indian variety called himam basanth it's the best out there . This is overpriced
Agree. There are better fruits than these overpriced and overhyped mangoes.
I have eaten 50+ varieties of mango , Including this Japanese mango , I think no mango taste better than original Ratnagiri Alphanso mango. This Alphanso mango in my opinion is the king of all the mango in the world.
I'm always baffled at the extent that Japanese pursue perfection in whatever craft they practice, but sometimes it feels a bit unwarranted. I just hope that even the defective mangoes don't go to waste and are actually consumed. On the bright side, the farmers actually get rewarded for their hard work, unlike the treatment other farmers get across the globe.
Yahh... Without us farmers the global economy is fudged to the core of the earth
Quality always triumph over quantities ;)
@@johnnychang4233 , definitely not coz if all farmers start doing this 70% of the world is gonna starve to death.
When I lived in Japan I could find 'defect' fancy fruit in the supermarket for reduced prices. It was often still beautifully packaged. I once found beautiful mangos for ¥3990 each (approx. $40USD). They were only in plastic punnets covered in plastic wrap so obviously considered not impressive enough to warrent fancy packaging, but still good enough for that price tag. Needless to say I didn't buy it lol, but I'm sure someone did. In short, I'm pretty sure it all gets sold down the line and the prices at the top end balance out the cost of labour for the B-products. Japan doesn't have enough land to waste what they manage to produce.
@@rishwhoo7258 As stated in the video only around 11% or less of all the fruit from the same harvest pass the stringent qualification as Taiyo Tamago Mangoes. And those are just going to be auctioned for a display in a luxury supermarket. Not a mass consumption product but a produce Beauty Pageant. And this sound like more eco-friendly to me than mining blood-diamonds.
Japanese do this about literally everything, and sometimes the extra work or dedication pays off, but in others it's just a marketing ploy to command ridiculous prices, and to make the workers feel better about doing pointless labor, to achieve a result that is indistinguishable from a much cheaper alternative.
I thinks it’s more so the culture in Japan. They treat most practices with lots of delicate care and precision. Their chef knives are top tier, they raise wagu beef and produce some of the finest cuts of meat you’ll see, etc.
Eloquently put
the color is different than cheaper alternatives.
Come to Pakistan for mangos 🥭. U’ll buy full cargo truck in same price !:)
Usually feels like the latter. Just cause a trained artisan makes something with his hands doesn't mean it's better in quality than made by a machine.
It's ridiculous how expensive a mango can be... but i do love the dedication these farmers give to their products.
It’s really nice to know that if you have something you love to do in Japan like growing mango, and it’s your passion and you just keep working for it and keep the standards nice and high for your product, it can pay off very easily
IT'S EXTORTION, you dimwit. Certain regular organic mangos at the local grocery store can and sometimes do taste equally or better. The same BS goes for their kobe beef, sushi and whatever else they charge an arm and a leg for. Pop culture is making the world very brainless.
thats 8,000 a YEAR. outside of the validation, im not sure how this is considered an "easy payoff"
It’s really nice to know fail has an antonym & no just because you are trying doesn’t mean it’s working. Failure exist; failure shows us what isn’t working. Stop lying.
@@tylergerena7426 reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit
lol umm no. Some things yes but i watched a video of a Japanese man that had a passion for sniffing feet. I am willing to say no matter how hard he works it will never pay off very easily. Join the real world buddy. For every one guy like in this video there are 50 who barley make a living.
Kinda sad they didn't touch up on the history of these mangos.. Miyazaki prefecture originally didn't have mangos, Okinawa was one of the very few prefectures that produced them. It all started when Shoichi Tate, a man from Miyazaki visited Okinawa and happened to eat some local mango. He was shocked at the flavor and when he went back to Miyazaki he decided he was going to try to grow some with 8 of his farming buddies. Things didn't go well for him and could barley grow a single fruit since they didn't even know how to pollinate the plant. They decided to rely on an Okinawan man, Ryokou Yara who who was the leader of mango studies in Okinawa. Yara didn't keep secrets and willingly taught the 8 men how to properly grow the fruit. Many of the Okinawan farmers hesitated to teach Miyazaki prefecture how to grow mangoes, but decided to anyway since Miyazaki was one of the few prefectures to let Okinawans evacuate to during WW2. Many older people who contributed to sharing the art said it was to in some way return the courtesy. That's how the Taiyo No Tamago was born.
*barely barley is a crop
Very interesting!
@@ThePenguinMan go kick rocks dude, this is youtube not a dissertation.
Thanks for the info
Hello, are fruits generally expensive in Japan, (not referred to the ones at auction)? I was wondering if they grew their own mangoes and cantaloupes vs importing them, then the fruits would be generally affordable for the average person. Can you enlighten me?
Had the chance of trying an A and compared it to the common "inferior" types, there's almost no difference. It's visual at most and the entire category is there to generate higher profits. It's like buying a carton of regular mangos and selling the one perfect looking one you find for the price of the 10 cartons.
Exactly
shhh don't tell these idiots the truth. I like reading the comments from these low IQ people that think these mangos are special and not just your typical mango that grows all over the world.
Exactly to meet their revenues. They started a trend and let rich “pecfectionist” people start bidding on it.
It’s just hype and marketing. The Japanese are good at it.
It's like everything in capitalism. People want the 'best' to satisfy their little egos. They make money exploiting the planet, its nature and other people, then throw it around because they think it makes them look kind of special. What sad little people of zero self-respect the rich are!
The definition of PERFECTION.
As a native Miamian who grew up hopping fences to pick mangoes off of neighbors trees, I can honestly say I’ve never had a mango that I felt was worth $4k. EVER. And I love mangoes.
In Philippines, we call this variety (the one on the video) apple mango. and most of the Filipinos don't eat this variety because it tastes like syrup medicine. but we do have what we call carabao mangoes which is the best variety of mango that is good enough for exportation. it is sweet, not rubbery and melts in your mouth like ice cream.
Gosh I hate apple mangoes. In my province, no one would even harvest apple mangoes at all. The only variety we'd eat are the Indian mango and Carabao mango.
And also very sweet and juicy when ripe. Goddamn i love those carabao mangoes
to think that the applemangoes are their best variety for cultivation felt weird to me. near the end of the video, the opened applemango have large fiber-like at the bottom which i think is sour compared to our own mango varieties and obviously far from those expensive indian ones.
Im skeptical about this mango, I don't think there's anything better than sweet carabao mangoes we get in Cebu, you can smell them from far away!
In Malaysia ,we like harum manis mango
“Every mango repays him with a unique flavor” Takuya: “It has both sweet and sour taste” That seems like every mango to me.
Dont forget ‘fruity’
Trust me, Japan is the master of trying to "specialize" or make everything into a craft and drive the value insanely high
In India, if its sour its not 'taiyo no tamago' and people will basically put sugar over it and have it, also if you're paying this much I mean at least you have to offer a wholesome sweetness xd
ngl some mangoes actually ARE better than other mangoes. like the mangoes you get in southeast asia are food for the gods compared to the usual mangoes i've had in the us
@@onobonono they're so special ,now they've more people in old age home than kids in school
There is a reason Miyazaki mangoes are so expensive. They are only available from select merchants in the Land Between for a huge amount of runes. They boost all your stats greatly for 30 minutes and persist on death so very useful for boss fights.
The good superior type of mangos are not just sweet but they have this distinct fragrant aftertaste and good texture.. those 2 quality make a whole difference
I've been to strawberry & melon farms in Japan and was amazed at how much respect the farmers give to getting the fruits right.
🍭
Maybe is for their climate and less lands is more difficult to grow fruits? I dunno really. Where I live is very tropical so is what most often hear about
@@erilove593 Fruits in general r quite expensive in Japan. Lands, labour are both expensive there, which is one contributor of why these fruits r so excessively expensive. The other reason being Japanese have a tendency to profit on diminishing return. If we have a way to quantify taste, many of these kinds of fruit, like the mango in the video or Shizuoka musk melon, taste perhaps 5% better than their ordinary, well grown counterparts; but will need 200% of cost increase to achieve so. This drivers up the price, and for most people, they cannot really taste the difference. This apply to many of their other product (like meat) as well. The other thing is gifting culture, not just in Japan but Asia as a whole. This creates a international market that is approachable for supplier in Japan, drives up the price even more. I have tasted this mango, along with some famous Japanese strawberry and melon. I can say this with 100% certainty: this mango taste about the same as any good one from Hawaii, the strawberry is about the same, if not worse than those produce from northeastern China. Both cost about 20 times if not more. The only one I can tell taste straight up better is the Shizuoka melon, which the Chinese have something that taste almost identical but less juicy. If it is only for basic, simple consumption, no way that people will pick the expensive one.
味に殆ど違いが無いって言ってる人、舌が死んでるんじゃないの…
@@user-zd3bu3fs6h what do you know it isn't just a big scam? Youre so naive. It's just a mango. Even for the best , the price is ridiculous.
I have tried these mangoes at a Japanese colleague's house, trust me, the Bright Yellow Alphonso Mangoes of India are way sweeter, smoother and flavour packed. Miyazaki Mangoes just look good on the outside with their crimson hue, that's it( in my opinion).
Pretty sure nothing can beat an Indian mango 🥭 🥰😋
I wanna try an Indian mango >.
Nice try fake account Rajesh. Back to the call center now .
@@milankaur6626 cos you’ve never been outside india
i guess india has a huge variety of mangoes that are great to taste...just cant stop eating them ...alphonso, kesar, langra ,malda ,and many many more ..i lovemy country for its mangoes.
When she said they weren’t rare and “sold at much lower prices” It felt like a big understatement
i’m from Japan :) and it’s common here to give fruits as a gift! Fruits here are expensive (especially fruits with perfect appearance lol) but they also taste good! One of the reason why it’s expensive is on how farmers grew fruits since here in Japan it’s full of mountains and there are only few places that fruits can really grew. Instead of importing, they don’t really do that. I think one of the reason is that they really value the quality and the meaning of fruit here in Japan 😊 I think too, just like the other comments with their country’s mango lol nothing will compare to how delicious, sweet and cheap the Philippine mango is hahaha! We don’t even care abt Apple mango in the PH cause it’s not sweet and good But Japan is not a tropical country, it’s hard to grew fruits like mango. So again, it’s just how they value it.
Hey thank you so much for your comment bro. I really enjoyed reading about your country through your own perspective
Arigato. 😊😊
The mangoes in the video look like the Hayden mangoes that I ate 20 years ago in Hawaii. Tender, juicy with just the right amount of sweetness when picked ripe with the skin more red than green with a little bit of yellow. Most were huge, 2-3 lbs. and best of all not expensive. Not like rubbery mangoes that supermarkets often import or use in frozen fruit salads nowadays.
Idk I like the Philippine mangos I buy 🤷🏼♂️
@@Peace-tl1ll in india, yes. otherwise in the world we just call them mangoes.
Hayden's are delicious
@@Zoomfay yes but western hemisphere mangoes sucks that's why
@@Anmolnegi-yw7hg ??? i'm not even from the western hemisphere lol, i'm taiwanese...? Your sentence doesn't even make sense, in fact, the US and the western world import mangos from the same place india does, the UAE, and Mexico. So you're saying your own mangoes suck?
In India u can find 50+ varieties of mango which would cost $4~$10 for 12 mangoes from Jan onwards. It reduces to $2~$3 during May and June.
In my country it worth 1 dollar per kg during season.
In the UK they are quite expensive. Maybe 15 dollars for a box of 6. But those are the Pakistani and Indian mangoes
5$ per kg 🇸🇦
Yea but the ones in India probably have pesticides and human excrement in them.
In some parts of India, you will get 2-3 kgs per $ in May, june
I absolutely adore the gift giving culture in Japan. I went on a business trip there and received gifts from partners and members I literally had to leave with an extra suitcase 🤣. Japan will always be such an incredible country to me culturally.
I love the gift giving culture! I think that a lot of those that watch these kinds of fruit videos don't get that you buy them for someone else, and usually the price of the gift will align with the message you're trying to send!! Hope you had a wonderful trip!
wht people dont realise is the amount of care and effort that japanese put in their work is just phenomenol..literally its a work of art and art can be sold for any price depending on the person who see the value
I really like his honesty! He looks so happy doing this. I respect this man!
Japan: Miyazaki Mango Philippines: These mangoes are always dropping on the road from the trees because nobody's eating it.
LOL how true..Carabao and Indian mangoes for the win
@@marvindiego1958 Alphonso is the best in the world.
The fact that the man just produces a 4000 dollar mango, and still stays so humble about it is amazing
These look so cool the process and everything
I grow these myself and have done so for more than 10 years. I give them away for free to friends and guests. It barely cost anything to grow them. This video is nuts.
Same thing, my mother also grows them herself I've eaten them they seem normal to me.
@@onigiri-kuuuniamariceball.2808 it not about da taste, fruit r use as gift in japan
better get exportin
@@alexandria3349 I won in Lottery about 7 years ago
@@nataliep6385 thats awesome! what a dream
Tasted this and the famous Guimaras mangoes in Philippines. And the one in Philippines tasted better for me, and it's sold about $2/kg. But it's just my opinion.
As a habitual mango-devourer i must agree with you. Miyazaki mangoes are all hype and little substance.
If you think the Guimaras mango is good you should try the Leon mangoes found in the neighboring island of Guimaras which is Iloilo.
2dollars per kg is a rip off
craft farming japanese do.. but in ph just farmer normally not like japan that are more on just a farmer...
@@jbertrow1056 The price should reflect the product. If the work does not produce the desired result then it's ineffectual work.
I have tried this, it's pure marketing and hype. It just looks good and that's it. Coming from the place where we eat mangoes like crazy from the childhood I can say that it's not special but if farmers can make more money because of hype and marking power to them .
Miyazaki was originated in Florida where we call it Irwin. I'm growing some myself. Just delicious and the aroma is amazing
People treating those mangos so preciously 🤔 And Here in India we have 100s of mango varities and produce so much that it's more than we need 😅 Just today I ate 3 😋
@@cheapsentiment I am saying our mass produced mangos are also export quality . Such like this .
@@cheapsentiment You definitely have no idea how good Indian mangoes taste. They are definitely not made for mass production, rather in India, the 2 months of mango harvest are the only things indians hope for in the harsh summer. I can assure you a freaking Rs 10 mango from my backyard would prolly taste better than this novelty of a mango, because in essence mangoes are a tropical fruit, and they need more water and sunlight than most other fruits. Hence Japan as a more northern country is essentially not even ideal for the growth of mangoes than India.
Even for a plant it's very challenging to live in Japan 😔😔
🤣🤣
Well at least the pets live in harmony right?🤣
@@dewaldsteyn1306 yes, Japanese have some beautiful pet,
Guys, have you watching how grand Champion koi life in Japan? Even for fish, need a very hard work there
2 months and 71 likes 🥺🥲 come on people of the world need some more
Wow, you really romanticized the story of growing mango and made me watch the whole thing..
absolutely amazing.
The sweetest mangoes come from the Philippines. Guiness book of world records certified it. The Philippine guimaras Carabao mango cultivar is a product of careful selective breeding. What we don't have is the marketing money machinery that Japan has.
What about yung Catimon mango na malalaki?
kaya masmasarap ang mangga natin sa Zambales o sa Guimaras nkklk lang na may taong willing magbayad ng $4k+, para sa mangga lang 😵💫
don't ever worry about that, there is very few things i'd actually want from japan as a european, let alone mangoes. when i think mango, i think india first, tbf but I'd take Philippines mangoes over japanese any day
Japan has expertise in making a simple product look so special and fool other people into thinking it's superior. They surely put a lot of effort , but the final product is a tad bit better than normal ones.
Kind of like a balenciaga cap that costs 400 bucks
I would NEVER in life pay $4000 for a fruit. I could careless how or where it's grown. This video is informative and educational, and I appreciate the effort and hard work. Yet & still I would never in life.
Thanks for letting everyone know
@@paulsimons769 hey just commenting like everyone else 😎
its a company that buys it to generate buzz. Look X brand mango sold for Y amount of dollars. X brand must be amazing. its pretty cheap marketing if you think about it
Don't say "never"
@@paulsimons769retards when they see a comment section for the first time
I wonder how it taste with the mango that my grandmother has made grown in our place, it's called "Forest Kassi Mango" I've eaten 10+ variety of mangos, but our Mango taste so much better.
In wich country is the mango? i eat a lot variety of mangos too!
@@sahratank7504 I'm from from Kerala (state in south India) Mangoes are also famous in Thailand, Indo, Mexico, philippino, brazil and china
Should try the Pakistani chunsa i was shocked by the sweetness it produced
Their obsession with perfection is complicating simple things
Forget about it! I'm having trouble buying any food because of 9% inflation on food in the United States. Actually, I think that 9% is seriously underestimated. I used to buy everything I needed for a week as a single elderly diabetic who eats mostly veggies, some fruit and a little meat for under $75/week. Now my food costs about $150/week and occasionally it is higher than that!. Carbs are a tiny portion of what I eat. This kind of luxury is for rich people and corporate titans. We working people eat the least expensive food we can find and cut back on meat. I'm not vegetarian by choice. Expensive mangoes are so far down on my list of desired fruit that the item fell OFF the list into the trash can.
:( did you know other countries like Germany have commercials for the less fortunate in the US because there are starving children and they are right! It's horrible.
@@SHALALATELOVER I don’t think that’s true especially because Germany has a higher child poverty rate than the us
@@SHALALATELOVER We have starving adults too. It's horrible to see someone EATING out of trash cans on the beach. Imagine, during a pandemic a ragged homeless person going from trash bin to bin to find some half eaten food left over by others for a meal! Imagine children home from school for the summer break. They get free meals if the family income is low enough during the school year, but not during the summer. They go hungry! I know because I see it all over the neighborhood. Our workers wages are so low that mothers cannot buy food all the time. I've had neighbor kids ask for a hard boiled egg sandwich. If I had it, I made one for them with a glass of milk. Imagine THAT! But sometimes MY OWN kids had to go to bed with a dinner of toasted bread and sugar and reconstituted powdered milk which I put into a used milk carton because They hated powdered milk. I tried to fool them. Yes, we do have extreme poverty in this country. Now tell me how wonderful market driven capitalism is when a full time employed mother of two can't properly feed her two little kids and when everyone isn't entitled to shelter and adequate nutrition simply because we are all human! We have people who are more concerned about finding homes for dogs and feeding stray cats than they are about the hungry people living in tents in every city. This is a sick society and capitalism does not work for too many.
I had the chance to visit Hawaii and they were selling pineapple by the road. Astoundingly good stuff- general store can't even compare. Super sweet and juicy, carved right in front of you. I don't doubt this would be similar, but if the difference is paying $12 to a roadside vendor and $4000 at auction? I think the airfare to a place where it's locally grown might be cheaper lol
😯 sooooo beautiful 🥭
Here in India, my part of the country (Gujarat) is famous for its sweet Kesar Mangoes! We just bought 30kgs of them for about 70$, the price might be high but the fruit is very very sweet due to the extreme exposure to sun!
Ooh! I can't remember if I've had kesar mangoes ever but they do look like alphonso ones right? My fam has a couple of trees down at a family village by the coast and our relatives usually get us a box when they go visit the village (alphonso) theyre so sweet! Indian mangoes are bomb. Always taking pride in that 🤣
My mom told me something similar abt the mangoes she had back in Pakistan. I really want to try these mangoes someday 😭 but I’m stuck with the bad American mangoes
Omg kesar mangoes are just heaven😭😭😭 I would eat them all day lmao
@@Supernova10000 Definitely go Pakistan and eat them mangoes
@@Supernova10000 Most mangoes 🥭 sold in America are from Mexico 🇲🇽
The Japanese always find ways to make a mundane thing outrageously expensive.
Like the scissors used to trim bonsai trees.
I agree. Thats because they do Auctions for everythin they can and thats why every single thing is expensive there.
True it's ridiculous
The rich just being decadent and just showing off.
Haha...You are so right, and if they see a long line, they will jump in it just so they can wait 20 minutes
Nice mango 🥭🎥👍
Its so common here in philippines. You can buy them at 1$ a piece
My friend has one tree of this kind in his balcony. We eat those every year for free and they just taste like regular mangoes. These Japanese people smh
@@HARRISHER0 lol they are not all expensive you can get cheap ones in japan its just the ones that are perfect are sold at expensive prices when i lived in japan they did this with square watermelon to
I’ve grown many vegetables and fruits in my life, and everything that this video named is “so difficult to grow, that’s why it’s expensive” is a problem everywhere. - Not enough pollination - Humidity - Takes one year to produce All these “issues” are “issues” with all plants…
YES I AGREE!!! nothing about this plant seems difficult. It’s just Japanese consummerism
In AUS we have great big mangoes R2D2 's but they are not red all over but yellow with a red tinge.
people need to remember that this is not the price of all the mangos from japan. there's lots of normal price mangos too, think of it as the mango's equivalent to himalayan pink salt, or expensive caviar from other countries
Yeah I get it and you know what ... I still think it is utterly ridiculous.
It is ridiculous…. And for other fruits, they are still pricey compared to other countries, some even consider it as a “gift” as most of them are imported. Now it may change depending on the prefecture, but that is the case for most of them. Like there may be one or two préfecture not being too pricey but they would still be pricey. Recap: fruits are pricey in Japan no matter the marketing category you get it from.
I mean, if u feel that this costs really high then its target is not for you i guess? The farmer is happy, the auctioneer is happy, and the buyer is happy with that price luxury things do cost really high for lots of people
Pink Himalayan salt is a scam. It is not pure as they claim. It has more impurities than table salt. The supposed health benefits are pseudoscience.
himalayan salt is very moderately expensive (it's mined quite cheaply in very substantial quantities), and proper sturgeon caviar doesn't really have proportionally cheaper options. expensive fruit are a very specific japanese cultural specialty because of japanese traditions of giving fruit as gifts. extremely rich people giving gifts to extremely rich people WANT their gifts to be extremely expensive, and in japan, what they want due to tradition are extremely expensive fruit. the price has little to do with production costs or value, it's more the other way around that there is a demand for expensive gift fruit to fulfill at various levels of price absurdity that are entirely set by how much rich people WANT to spend to make a point, and then the fruit suppliers compete with one another and the very best fruit (officially, though unofficially I'm sure producers' personal connections and reputations play a role) are awarded the privilege of fulfilling the most expensive demand. it's not like last year the most expensive fruit cost $100k, but this year no fruit turned out as good, so the most expensive ones only sell for $20k. no, there still are the same buyers who want to spend $100k to demonstrate their wealth, and they'll spend that money on the best fruit of the year no matter how good the best of that year is. it's not like they'll be tasting it anyway, because they're buying them as gifts.
Their hardwork and dedication into creating excellent product plus their innovation is really something, 👌
Failure shows us what doesn’t work. Don’t forget that.
This is called adding value
I've had several of these mangoes. Maybe I don't have a refined enough palette to appreciate it, seeing all the work that comes in creating them. They are delicious but nothing extraordinary. The Japanese really take fruit growing into an art form!
If you just want a sweet but and don't want to break bank then try the Zambales mango in the Philippines as it is been confirmed by Guinness Book of World Records as the world's sweetest mango
@@bespectacledperson2316 Yeah its the same mango species but it is the sweetest variant of the carabao mango
@@bespectacledperson2316 i can recall in my childhood binge eating toomuch carabao mangos from our farm in mindanao caused me sorethroat due to its sweetness😂
The variety is called Sweet Elena...
I like unripe one that taste sour better especially with sambal
So smooth and such a perfect shape… smooth on the inside… looks yummy. Not paying for it though 😂
Those are incredible looking mangos.
I have tasted Miyazaki mangoes and i can confidently say that any decent Indian mango is better than the best Miyazaki mango.😅 Another classic case of over engineering a simple product.
marketing
may be true, but they know the basics of business which allows everyone involved in the process to get rewarded and to have a dignified life. sometimes adding value to a product, adds value to the lives.
Liar
@@rameessalim2492 blah blah blah
Yep. It's native to India afterall.
I've seen mangos in Kenyan markets which are as red and more plump than the ones in the video. I also tried several varieties which were absolutely delicious and like nectar. However there was no fancy packaging, just ordinary cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
I ate some mangoes in South Africa. They were incredible and a lot cheaper. So juicy and tasty. Mangoes from Uruguay or Paraguay can't remember which are also great. South African fruit is probably the best on the planet. French fruit is also great. Fruit from a lot of other countries doesn't really cut it. Homegrown is amazing as well. We had a peach tree in Sweden that nothing from a store could even come close to compete with.
I ate mangos in Kenya and it was the best I ever had!
@@ivannasha5556 bro south african fruit is so fire every time I visit I can't wait to eat the strawberries
@@invisibilius1978 I'm Kenyan but I like buying some s.a fruits they are usually smaller but sweeter
My Japanese teacher loved that about Kenya! The Mangoes. Apple Mangoes cost like 1USD for 5. And they are the absolute best. They grow out in the Sun. No greenhouses. Our African Mangoes also really really sweet. We may be a developing country, struggling economically but we have the BEST TASTING FRUITS in the world.
This feels like one of the nicest jobs there is.
I really admire Japanese compassion to all aspect and field
Japanese can sell anything at high either they name it luxurious or gifting thing and that's insane
They give off perfectionist vibes, the attention to detail is off the charts
Whether it’s the attention to detail or not, how good can that mango really be?? Any Caribbean or other Asian mangoes are superior
Its just to show off imagine 1mango costing 200-500yen 😂here my country you can get 3kg of mango with same price even better sweetness
Tried that, but not as Tasty+ fragrance as Alphanso Mango (Indian one).
its 4k more of course its better
I agree.
@@objectiveice1294 they said worse
@@objectiveice1294 Money isn't the measure for the Taste!
India is always India Bro...
I love mangos! ❤
Try foil sun will reflect better. like sun tan. much quicker. worth a try even on one
imagine buying 2 mangoes for 4 grand 🤦♂️
Imagine not
Imagine how much other stuff you could use that 4 grand for!
down payment for a new car
A lot of road trips
😂😂
next video should be on why everything is expensive in japan
Anything is expensive if you add 50 extra steps to growing them and random ridiculous standards
why water is expensive in Japan
your music choice is exquisite
That one dude just ate his whole paycheck😂
I am a small holder farmer & so l am always happy when another farmer get a price they feel they deserve for their produce. Having said that, $4000 mangoes.......... now that's someone pulling a fast one on someone 🤣🤣🤣
I visited Japan several times and the quality of the fruits and food are not that much different from those in the US and Canada. It's just crazy that people are willing to pay these premium prices.
bro what? You just ate some regular fruit, you didn't eat $2K grapes the size of ping pong balls. They have normal fruit just like the US. Not everything in Japan is special lol.
@@silenc3x What he meant to say is different though, he's not talking about these fruits that are made to be expensive for no reason. In Japan, buying fruit is a luxury, as even common fruits cost a fortune. The whole country depends on packaged crap, let's see how that will affect their health.
@@linxuser897 i don't think that's possible, fruits cost the same as other places only some special fruits are expensive.
@@wazukyan7696 have you been to Japan? If you haven't, at least watch a vlog before posting misleading comments
@@wazukyan7696 go to japan before making that claim
The art of farming 👍
I am from Nicaragua, I have eaten so many of them, delicious.
The Japanese in general have an obsession with perfection. It can drive you to achieve great things . But knowing some Japanese friends, this can also cause tremendous pressure on average, normal people and bring about mental health issues. I've also been to india during mango 🥭 season and had some of the finest mangoes. Quite cheap as well.
When I was growing up in Puerto Rico there were 7 mango trees in my back yard among other types of fruit like coconut, passionfruit, limes, avocados, breadfruit etc... This is crazy that people sell these mangoes at such a high price. However, if people pay for it others will sell it. Mangoes are delicious though and when you have them in abundance you kind of take it for granted.
I’ve had one in Japan and I still dream of them. By far the most beautiful fruit grown in the world
they are really good in Technology, Quality, and marketing.
In the Philippines apple mango are organic & you can just ask your neighbors if you can get some of it they usually say yes why is god tree 🌳 tropical country are BEST WITH ALL OF WONDERFUL & EXOTIC FRUIT 🥭 THAT UNDER COUNTRY NEED A GREEN & control temperature God bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You can get tastier mangoes at much cheaper prices in South Asia and South East Asia. Sometimes even the smallest and imperfect looking mangoes taste delicious, and the most perfect looking mangoes may taste sour. If this variety of mango was superior than others, it would be in much higher demand all over the world.Japan has a gift giving culture and they tend to complicate everything and add higher price tag to it. These mangoes are more of a social status symbol considering the price. If you want to truly enjoy the fruit, buy it from people who produce it in bulk.
I agree with you 100% Japanese are well known for showing off. I will bet my organic mango in my backyard taste as good as the Japanese one or even better.
@@msunny3307 if u do pruning, like taking 99% flowers off u get the same mango, oh add some bees
I’ve had both visiting Japan and also other Asian countries. But Japanese ones are other worldly cuz they are specific cultivars and made under scientifically researched and controlled temperature, soil and all. In fact, most mangoes sold in Japan are imported from the Philippines and the price is less than 1/10 of Japanese ones. So they have the access to much cheaper South East Asian ones but people still will pay that much for Japanese ones so that show that taste is not same and not the market value. I now live in London and we see Japanese mangoes imported too so it is recognized by many culinary professionals around the world to be different.
@@calutanneohage6152 That's a load of bs. Filipino themselves say these mangoes taste awful. People who haven't tasted variety of mangoes aren't an expert. These are for show off only nothing else.
ahahahah no
Even a mango I got at the grocery store for a dollar is delicious so Idk how this can be that much better.
Good marketing and great packging can even make shttt look like gold.
i remember trying a imported Japan mango once. Cost 40$ for one and it tasted incredibly sweet, but there were hardly any fruity flavor in there, just sugar
Honestly the mangoes from the Dominican Republic are 100x better, and they grow as big as melons! The obsession with Japan is so overblown 🙄
@@_audacity2722 I rather buy a ticket to the dominican Republic stay at a nice place and eat mangos all day for 4k than buy 2 mangos.
@@A01009aaron hell yeah I'm with you on that
honestly im not surprised since none of what theyre doing is really "natural" i guess.
@@A01009aaron you and your family can go for 4K
Seems like every fruits in Japan is expensive. Making it less abundant and focusing on fruit quality is what I have learn from Japan Anyone can get the same taste with less expenditure by trying Mangos grown in Philippines, Pakistan and India Fun fact: Perception of fruits changes based on how much it costs. The pricier a fruit is, the better we think it tastes
Fruit is expensive in Japan in general, even for regular consumer grades. That's why Japanese people going to the rest of Asia are always astonished at how cheap the fruits are.
it is basically the apple mango in the Philippines, which has no market value
Apple mango is good partially ripe(maniba) fully ripe apple mango taste like medicine
They have regular priced fruit in Japan... These are just grown to give as presents
Oh how I'd love a taste 😋
Q buenos videos😊
I just got a HUGE mango like this from my neighbor and it was SOOO good! They're in season in Puerto Rico right and you can pick them by the side of the road. 🥭
Idk but I’ve been to Malaga in southern Spain and had a local natural grower let me pick tree-ripe mangoes that were bursting with sweet juicy nectar and like honestly the best fruit I’ve ever tasted in my life. And I’ve tasted some good quality fruit from subtropical regions. It was Mouth-gasm. They were a different variety and the trees were taken well care of. And you can buy a box for change pocket money haha.
it's all status symbol hype. just look at the box the pose with.. i find it hard to believe much changes between them besides how sweet they can be due to sun exposure.
Best person is the customer who eats these mangoes. If they say it's really good compared to other mangoes they get around the world, then it's worth putting that much energy into it.
I went to one of these grocery stores in Shibuya that had expensive fruit displayed in similar packaging. I had never eaten a strawberry before, mainly because I'm untrusting. When I ate one of these strawberries, though, it tasted perfectly.
These farmers work so hard to perfect their craft. It’s amazing.
Regular 🥭 are already delicious! Imagine those ones Cheers from San Diego California
I love these
I had no idea Japan even produced mangoes, the fact that they were able to take a common variety and turn it into such a commodity is kinda impressive
I mean it's crazy hot in Japan. It's easy to grow them there.
Ive tried this mango, its really good for people who havent tasted a lot of mango varieties, for me the best is the manila mango, its very yellow compare to this red hue, and very sweet, so sweet that it feels like you pour sugar syrup or honey to that mango
I saw them live in Tokyo fruit boutiques, beautiful to look at, obviously I didn't try them, but I tried one for $ 230 .. you know, it was good, but in India I tasted better and they cost 10 / 20 cents each .. I also saw other fruits with incredible prices, peaches, lichi, passion fruit !! Six peaches for $ 400 minimum up to more than 1000, all identical, color, size etc! Peaches from Georgia are better and with that money you buy a tree 😜 But you know the Japanese are like that, they pay thousands of dollars for a pair of used panties or for some pubic hair .. They’re crazy😅😵💫
I agree. This is just hyped up. We buy the sweetest mangoes in perfect condition and it would cost a few dollars per kg at most.
im bangladeshi and the mangoes here are so good that i dont think a mango tasting slightly sweeter is all that worth it. Even so the price isnt for the type of mango its for the care💀
@@rrraynoorrr Mangoes are much cheaper in India but Alphonso Mangoes are pretty expensive costing about 12- 28 dollars per dozen(much better than the mangoes in the video tho)
At least you can say you tried a $230 mango. I probably would have too, but I wouldn’t pay too much more than that. I had really good mangoes in China though. Not sure why the fruits in the US don’t taste as good as when I was a kid too.
@@seb0nti same in India Imao Idk why but these days in my region of India they don't grow it using chemicals. And they seem to sweet and fragrant to me
in mexico we use them as door stoppers. I don't care what people say there is no reason why these things need to be this expensive.
Man I wish I could taste one of those. I love mangos.
Love the dedication!
Carabao Mango in the Philippines 🇵🇭 is still the best with very low maintenance. Must try😋
I try this mango once and taste the same one from Oaxaca Mexico same flavor and sweet
Wow nice