Mango keeps turning up across several of this summer’s biggest food trends. This July 22, National Mango Day, it’s in the cottage cheese boom filling breakfast tables, the sweet-heat sauces spreading across dinner, and the pistachio desserts crowding bakery cases. Somehow, it still isn’t the one getting any of the credit.
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