The Mangosteens are coming!

[lsanderson]

Welcome at the Border: Thai Fruits, Once Banned
By DAVID KARP

FRESH mangosteens and mangoes from Thailand will soon be available in the United States, the Agriculture Department has decided. Those fruits — as well as fresh pineapples, rambutans, litchis and longans — had been barred as imports from Thailand because they could harbor harmful insects, but will be allowed in when irradiated at low doses to kill or sterilize the pests. More