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# Kent

Big, smooth, sweet, and easy to find when you need a win.

![Kent mangoes displayed at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival, Florida. Individual fruit and maturity vary.](https://mangoranking.com/fruit/photos/kent-photo-v1.jpg)

Kent mangoes displayed at the Redland Summer Fruit Festival, Florida. Individual fruit and maturity vary.

Mango Kent Asit fs8.jpg — Asit K. Ghosh (Thaumaturgist). [Photograph source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mango_Kent_Asit_fs8.jpg) · [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

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## How it tastes

juicy · Low fibre

**Texture**

juicy

**Fibre**

Low fibre

**Eating styles**

Get sticky

**Harvest**

[See regional calendars](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md)

## How to enjoy it

Kent gives you broad cheeks and smooth, juicy flesh. It is a useful mango for sharing: slice it for the table and save any very soft pieces for a drink.

Open over a bowl to catch the juice. Scoop the ripe flesh; strain blended pulp if you prefer less fibre.

## When it is ripe

A red blush is decoration; softness near the stem is the signal.

Flavour notes are subjective. Ripeness, handling and growing conditions change the fruit.

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Names, history & sources

## Recorded names

A shared name does not by itself establish an identical cultivar. Place, language and source matter.

**Kent**

Venezuela

Named for Leith Kent, on whose property the original seedling grew.

- [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Kent](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/kent)

**Florida Kent**

An origin descriptor, not a separate cultivar.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Kent](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/kent)

## A Coconut Grove name on a world traveller

Documented history: consult the claims and qualifications in the cited sources.

Kent began as a Brooks seedling on the property of Leith Kent in Coconut Grove. Growers recognised both the quality of its fruit and the usefulness of its harvest, and the garden selection moved into commercial orchards.

Its name now turns up far from Florida, including Latin America and southern Africa. Kent also became a parent to later selections such as Gold Nugget. A surname on a supermarket sticker can conceal that whole chain: one person’s tree, other growers’ confidence, and new seedlings still being tried.

[Read the full story](https://mangoranking.com/stories/kent.md)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Kent](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/kent)

## Places in this record

Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.

- **Florida**

  Catalogue association

  Associated place in the tasting catalogue; this does not establish botanical origin.

- **Venezuela**

  Catalogue association

  A mango cultivar included in the Venezuelan INIA-CENIAP collection and flowering research.

  - [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

- **Spain**

  Recorded cultivation

  Recorded as a less widespread, mid-season cultivar.

  - [Junta de Andalucía / RAIF: principal mango varieties in Andalusia (2023)](https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agriculturapescaaguaydesarrollorural/raif/principales-variedades-de-mango-en-andalucia/)

- **Andalusia, mainland Spain**

  Recorded cultivation

  Recorded as a less widespread, mid-season cultivar.

  - [Junta de Andalucía / RAIF: principal mango varieties in Andalusia (2023)](https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agriculturapescaaguaydesarrollorural/raif/principales-variedades-de-mango-en-andalucia/)

- **United States**

  Catalogue association

  Associated country guide; cultivation, naming and origin are different claims.

- **Coconut Grove, Florida, United States**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “A Coconut Grove name on a world traveller”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [Tropical Acres Farms — Kent](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/kent)

[Harvest calendars by growing place](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md). These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

## Sources

- [Avilán et al., Floración de cultivares de mango de la colección del INIA-CENIAP (2002)](https://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0002-192X2002000400003&script=sci_arttext)

- [Junta de Andalucía / RAIF: principal mango varieties in Andalusia (2023)](https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agriculturapescaaguaydesarrollorural/raif/principales-variedades-de-mango-en-andalucia/)

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Kent](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/kent)

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