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Description: Candylike intensity balanced by enough acidity to keep every bite electric.

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# Sweet Tart

Candylike intensity balanced by enough acidity to keep every bite electric.

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## How it tastes

buttery · Low fibre

**Texture**

buttery

**Fibre**

Low fibre

**Eating styles**

Bring a spoon

**Harvest**

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

## How to enjoy it

Sweet Tart is named for the contrast at the centre of its appeal. A bright acidic edge gives its sweetness definition. Taste it plain before adding sugar to any dessert.

Cut ripe cheeks and scoop with a spoon. Taste the flesh plain before adding it to a dessert.

## When it is ripe

Wait for full color, a strong fruity scent, and gentle softness.

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.

**Sweet Tart**

The named selection, with a descriptive flavour name.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

**C-1**

Original planting number.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

**Zinc**

Short name for seed parent Zill Indochinese, not an alias for Sweet Tart.

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

**Zill Sweet Tart**

Existing catalogue label. It may be an alternate name, translation or market nickname; it is not an assertion of genetic identity.

## From C-1 to a name you can taste

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

Sweet Tart was planting C-1 in Gary Zill’s Boynton Beach breeding programme. Its recorded seed parent was Zill Indochinese, often shortened to Zinc. Those plain orchard labels preserve the work behind a name that now sounds like a sweet-shop invention.

The name describes the strong sweet-and-acid contrast growers report in the fruit. It tells the eater what made the selection memorable, while C-1 tells the grower where it began. The available record does not supply a separate person or historic event behind the naming.

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

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

## 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.

- **United States**

  Catalogue association

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

- **Boynton Beach, Florida, United States**

  A place in the story

  Setting of “From C-1 to a name you can taste”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.

  - [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

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

## Sources

- [Tropical Acres Farms — Sweet Tart](https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/sweet-tart)

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