Aside from Mango, how many fruits begin with the letter M are there in the world?

You’ll be shocked to know that I found 47 fruits that start with M, 30 of which I swear you’ve never listened to but still exist.

For your kind information, we already completed a list of that fruit starts with the letter L, and now we are going to explain the “M” fruit’s name.

Table: The table contains only 11 famous names for those who are in a hurry. The rest of the 37 fruits are explained later.

If you fancy discovering more about names, we also have a list of M foods that will help you learn something new.

However, this article will go over each fruit in detail, including its nutritional value.

47 Famous fruits that start with M

In this list, I also mentioned my all-time favorite fruits that also start with the letter M.

1. Melon Fruits

Famous In: Central Asia

Common Name: Cantaloupe, Muskmelon, rockmelon

Color:  Outer surface is gray, but the inner portion has yellow, orange, green.

Taste:  Sweet

Nutrients:  Melon fruit high in fiber, vitamin C, folate

Health Benefits:  The fruit helps you to stay hydrated, increases digestion, and many more.

How to Eat:  Melon is famous for healthy desserts. You only need to slice the fruit and take it with salads or soups.

2. Mandarin Fruits

Famous In: Asia and the Philippines

Common Name: Mandarine

Color: Yellow-orange, Red-orange

Taste:  Sour to Sweet

Nutrients:  Mandarin fruits high in Vitamin C, potassium, carbs, magnesium, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruit helps to boost your immune system, also great for eye health.

How to Eat:  You can eat it raw only to remove the skin and enjoy the flesh. I love to take it as a juice.

3. Malay Apple Fruit

Famous In: Malaysia, Australia

Common Name: Mountain Apple, Rose Apple

Color:  Dark Red

Taste:  Crispt, watery & sweet

Nutrients:  Malay apples contain fat, protein, fiber, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruits help you boost your immunity power, prevent constipation, and many more.

How to Eat:  Most people love to eat raw. However, it’s used in making Jam.

4. Morinda Fruit

Famous In: Central & South America, Mexico, India

Common Name:  Cheese Fruit, Indian Mulberry, Noni

Color:  Green to yellow to white

Taste:  Earthy, composty& sour

Nutrients:  The fruit is rich in Vitamin C, folate, carbs, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit is essential because it converts energy from food and improves immunity and skin health.

How to Eat:  Unriped morinda is preferred cooked, and you can eat riped fruit raw.

5. Muskmelon Fruit

Famous In: Iran & Adjacent areas

Common Name:  Cucumis melo

Color:  Yellow

Taste:  Sweet

Nutrients: Muskmelon fruits high in potassium, Vitamin C, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit aids digestion while also regulating blood pressure and protecting the heart.

How to Eat: The fruit can be enjoyed fresh and also preferred in a salad; the muskmelon seeds are also used to make sherbet.

6. Mangaba Fruit

Famous In: Brazil

Color: Yellow and greenish

Taste: Sweet

Nutrients:  The mangaba fruit contains nutrients like zinc, vitamin A, fiber, calcium, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruit’s leaves are beneficial for menstrual pain, and the fruit helps to treat diarrhea, inflammation, and many more.

How to Eat:  The fruit pulp can be eaten fresh and used to make jam, ice creams, jellies.

7. Macadamia Nuts

Famous In: Australia

Common Name: Queensland nut, Hawaii nut, maroochi nut

Color:  Pale & coral pink

Taste: Creamy & sweet buttery

Nutrients: Macadamia fruit high in manganese, protein, fiber, carbs, thiamine, etc.

Health Benefits: Macadamia nuts helps to improve digestion, decrease the risk of diabetes, and many more.

How to Eat:  The fruit can be eaten raw as well as roasted. I will suggest you take it fresh to get more nutrition.

8. Mountain pepper Fruit

Famous In: Australia

Common Name: Tasmanian pepper berry

Color: Dark red to black

Taste:  Earthy, peppery to spicy.

Nutrients: The mountain pepper fruits are high in protein, calcium, zinc, fiber, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruits help to fight against cancer and also minimize the risk of cardiovascular disease.

How to Eat: The fruits are used both fresh and dried to obtain the spicy flavor and complement other dishes.

9. Mountain Soursop Fruit

Famous In: South & Central America

Common Name: Wild Custard Apple, Wild Soursop

Color: Outer is green and inner is yellow orangy, white

Taste:  Tasteless or little sour

Nutrients: The fruit contains protein, fiber, carbohydrates, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruits help you to boost immunity and also protect your skin from free radicals.

How to Eat:  The fruit is used in sherbet that gives you refreshment and is also used to make ice cream base.

10. Mango Fruits

The fruits list of M is incomplete without mentioning “Mango” because the fruit is famous worldwide.

Famous In: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Common Name: Amra-Phal, Aam

Color: It varies like green, yellow, reddish-green.

Taste:  Sweet-sour

Nutrients:  Mangoes are high in fiber, vitamin C, A, protein, potassium, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruit aids in maintaining blood pressure, the control of cholesterol levels, and the maintenance of healthy skin.

How to Eat: The fruit can be eaten raw it’s delicious, also preferred in snacks as a juice.

11. Melinjo fruit

Famous In: Southeast Asia & Pacific Ocean islands

Common Name:  Gnetum, Tulip, Bago

Color: Red-orange

Taste: Sour

Nutrients: Melinjo fruit is high in protein, lipid, carbohydrate, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruits are beneficial who are suffering from muscle cramps, also good for your skin, minimize the risk of stroke and have many more benefits.

How to Eat: You can prefer it as a stew or juice.

12. Miracle Fruit

This M fruit is called Miracle fruit because they sweeten anything you eat for hours.

Famous In: West Africa

Common Name: Sweet berry, miraculous berry

Color: Red to deep red

Taste: Sweet tang

Nutrients: Miracle fruit contains amino acids, Vitamins, A, C, E, flavonoids, etc.

Health Benefits:  Miracle fruit helps cure diabetes and powerful effect on those who have taste disturbance after chemotherapy.

How to Eat:  You can taste it miracle fruit raw.

13. Maracuya Fruit

Famous In: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

Common Name:  Passion fruit

Color: Golden Yellow or purple

Taste: Sour to tart

Nutrients: Maracuya fruit contains Vitamin A, B, fiber, potassium, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruit is good for your health and also reduces anxiety and many more.

How to Eat: You can eat the fruits raw. Most of the people preferred it as a juice, in a salad, desserts, etc.

14. Mock Strawberry fruit

Famous In: 

Common Name: Indian strawberry, False strawberry

Color: Red

Taste: Slightly bitter and watery

Nutrients: Mock strawberries full of nutrients like- potassium, magnesium, sodium, protein, vitamin C, etc.

Health Benefits: 

The fruit is famous for its medicinal use, such as antiseptic, fever reducer, and many more.

How to Eat: The fruit is not recommended to eat raw. Fruit is famous for its medicinal properties.

15. Mamoncillo Fruit

Famous In: South and Central America

Common Name: Guinep, Chenet, Skinip

Color: Pale yellow to fade orange

Taste: Sweet & tangy

Nutrients: Mamoncillo fruit is high in protein, phosphorous, fiber, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruits help boost your immunity and regulate your blood pressure, resulting in a healthy heart.

How to Eat: You can eat it fresh only need to remove the skin.

16. Mamey sapote fruit

Famous In:  Central America & Mexico

Common Name: Yellow mamey

Color:  Outer surface is brown, and the flesh is red-orange.

Taste: It’s difficult to explain; I can only say it’s a mixture of pumpkin, cinnamon, sweet potato, and honey. (nutty, creamy, sweet)

Nutrients: Mamey sapote fruit high in Vitamin C, A, Potassium, Magnesium, iron, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit helps you to manage your heart and also is a good immunity booster.

How to Eat: The fruit can be eaten raw and also used in smoothies, cookies, sweet bread, etc.

17. Muscadine fruit

Famous In: United States

Common Name: Scuppernong

Color: Black or Dark purple

Taste: Intense sweet

Nutrients: Muscadine fruit is high in polyphenols, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit can help you maintain a healthy weight while also lowering your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases.

How to Eat: You can either eat the pulp and seeds whole or use your tongue to extract the seeds from the flesh and spit them out before swallowing the pulp.

18. Mangosteen Fruit

Famous In: Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore

Common Name: The purple mangosteen

Color: Green to purple-black

Taste:  Sweet and tangy

Nutrients:  The mangosteen fruit contains Vitamin B9, C, B1, fiber, protein, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit helps to regulate blood pressure, boost immunity power, also has anti-cancer properties, and many more.

How to Eat:  Mangosteen is a famous dessert of fruits. However, you can eat fresh and also used to make jams.

19. Mclntosh Apple Fruit

Mclntosh apples are the national fruit of Canada that starts with the letter L.

Famous In: Canada & New England

Common Name: Mac

Color: Red and green

Taste: Sweet and tart

How to Eat: You can take the fruit as well as cooked.

When it comes to nutritional benefits, most of the apples contain water, fiber, carbs, protein, etc.

However, the fruit helps you lose weight, maintain your blood sugar level, blood cholesterol, and protect your heart.

Remember that the next time we get an apple name that begins with the letter M, we will skip the nutritional benefits section.

20. Mammee apple fruit

Famous In: South America

Common Name: Mamey apple, Tropical apricot

Color: Dark green, grey-brown

Taste: Little sweet, a slight tang, little nut, and bitter.

Nutrients: Mammee fruits are high in iron, vitamin C, B6, potassium, etc.

Health Benefits: Few of the fruit’s health benefits include reduced insomnia, protection from depression, increased immunity, and improved skin health.

How to Eat: Fruit is preferred to make jam, and the flesh can also be eaten cooked.

21. Madrono Fruit

Famous In: Western France, Europe & Ireland

Common Name: Charichuela

Color: Reddish orange, yellow

Taste: Bitter

Nutrients: Madrono fruit high in sugars, vitamin C, omega 3 & omega 6, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit is popular because of its medicinal properties. It diminishes the chance of cancer, coronary heart disease, and many more.

How to Eat: You can take it fresh as well as cooked.

22. Meyer Lemon Fruit

Famous In: China, United States

Color: Dark Yellow

Taste: Sweet and sour

Nutrients: The fruit contains Vitamin C, potassium, carbohydrate

Health Benefits: The fruit helps boost your mood and is also a powerful immunity booster, improves digestion, and many more.

How to Eat: You can take it in juice, drinks, or add any deserts to get extra flavor.

23. Macoun Apple Fruit

Macoun fruit is popular in the United States. It’s a cross between Jersey black and Mclntosh. The fruit is also known as McCown.

24. Mexican Limes

Mexican limes are also famous as Key lime; that’s why we already added this fruit to our K fruits list.

Famous In: Southeast Asia

Common Name: Omani lime, West Indian lime

Color: Greenish Yellow

Taste:  Juicy acidic

Nutrients: The fruit is high in Vitamin C, iron, carbs, fiber, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruit has several health benefits like protecting you from infections, improve digestion, etc.

How to Eat: You can take the fruit in ice cream, sherbet, cakes, also used in salads.

25. Marisol Clementine Fruit

Famous In: Spain & Southern Hemisphere

Color: Deep orange

Taste:  Little acidic

Nutrients:  The fruit contains vitamin C, thiamine, fiber, folate, etc.

Health Benefits: Promotes skin health, reduces inflammation, and many more.

How to Eat: You can take it raw and also preferable in juices.

26. Margil Apple fruit

Margil apple is a popular fruit in France. Also known as Reinette Musquee.

The color is green, orange and the taste is a combination of nuts and honey. It’s a crisp, delicious fruit.

27. Masak Hijau Banana Fruit

Famous In: West Indies & Southeast Asia, Philippines

Common Name: Lacatan, Bungulan, Mestica

Color: Green to yellow

Taste: Sweet

Nutrients: The fruit contains vitamin C, potassium, fiber, manganese, etc.

Health Benefits: It’s a perfect energy booster, protect your heart, and it’s a natural laxative

How to Eat:  Only need to remove the skin and take it whenever you want.

28. Mini Mandarin Oranges Fruit

Famous In: South China & Japan

Common Name: Baby Mandarin, Cherry orange

Color:  Pale yellow to deep orange

Taste: Sour

Nutrients:  Mini mandarin contains fiber, folate, vitamin C

Health Benefits:  The fruit is cholesterol-free; that’s why it’s good for your heart, increases immunity power, and many more.

How to Eat:  You can take it as other oranges.

29. Marsh Pink Grape Fruit

Famous In: United States, Africa, Asia, Australia

Color: Yellow

Taste: Aromatic, sweet with tangy acidic.

Nutrients: The fruit contains Vitamin C, A, potassium, etc.

Health Benefits: Marsh Pink Grape Fruit helps to increase immunity power.

How to Eat:  You can take the fruit fresh. Most people love to take it for breakfast.

30. Manila Tamarind / Madras Thorn Fruit

Famous In: Mexico, America, etc.

Common Name: Camachile

Color:  Green, pink, red, brown

Taste:  Sour, sweet and nutty

Nutrients: Manila Tamarind is high in Vitamin C, phosphorous, calcium, etc.

Health Benefits:  Healthy fruits for your bones and teeth. Protect you from free radicals and many more.

How to Eat:  You can take it fresh as well as cooked. You will love to take it as a refreshing drink.

31. Mora De Castilla Fruit

Famous In: Latin & South America

Common Name: Andean raspberry

Color:  Green to red to purple

Taste: Bitter-sweet

Nutrients: Mora De Castilla is high in Vitamin C, calcium, and phosphorous.

Health Benefits:  The fruit helps your body slow down your digestion that helps to control your blood sugar level.

How to Eat:  The fruit is used to make jam, jellies, ice cream, and many more.

32. Madison Peach Fruit

Madison peach is a famous Chinese fruit; bright red and yellowish flesh is juicy. Excellent fresh fruit is also used in recipes.

33. Maqueno Banana Fruit

The Maqueno Banana fruit is famous in Ecuador and Nicaragua. It is a type of banana that is softer. However, you can use it to make a variety of dishes.

34. Manjana fruit Apple

Famous in: China, central Asia, and Europe 

Taste: Juicy sweet

Nutrition presents Pottasium 3℅ DV, Magnesium 1℅ DV, and 9℅ of Dietary fiber. 

Health Benefits:   The fruit helps in weight loss, keeps the heart healthy, minimizes the risk of Diabetics, is good for your skin, helps in constipation, maintains a healthy gut, reduces bad cholesterol. 

How to eat: You can eat raw, make apple pie for dessert, have it like cake.

35. Marang Fruit

Famous In: Palawan, Borneo, MMindanao Islands.

Common Name: Madang, Tarap, Johey oak

Color:  Green to yellowish-brown

Taste: Sweet

Nutrients:  Marang fruit contains Vitamin C, calcium, iron, water, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit helps you to relieve constipation.

How to Eat:  People are love to take the whole fruit after cooking. You take the fresh fruit when ripe. We need to remove the skin and take the flesh.

36. Mora fruit 

Mora fruit is an alternative name for BlackBerry.

Famous in: South America 

Color: Black 

Taste: Sweet

Nutrition: Mora consists of healthy antioxidants and 20℅ daily value dietary fibers.

Health Benefits:

Mora has several health benefits like antioxidants keeping the heart healthy, Detoxifying your body, and dietary fiber is maintaining a healthy digestive system.

Mora is loaded with vitamin c hence it absorbs iron and potassium; Vitamin c enhances skin and hair growth.

How to Eat: Mora typically eats fruit juice, which is prevalent in South America as a healthy and refreshing drink.

37. Maqui fruit:

Maqui also knows as Chilean wineberry, maque.

Famous in: South America, Chile, southern Argentina

Color: Maqui fruits are small purple blackberries

Taste: Similar to blackberries (sweet-sour)

Health Benefits: Maqui berry is a “superfruit” because its high antioxidant content has potential health benefits. It can help reduce inflammation, maintain blood glucose levels, and, most importantly, heart health.

How to eat: Maqui has a sweet-tart flavor and eat as snacks, especially for diabetic patients.

38. Merton Pride Pear Fruit

Merton Pride pear know as Glou Morceau. You can add it to the G fruit list. 

It is a crossbreed fruit from Belgian and English Williams pear. 

Color: Yellowish-green with upper part is red, pear shape

Taste: Merton pride pear has sweet as well as juicy, buttery flesh 

Nutrition :

• Calories
• Protein: 1 gram
• Carbs: 27 grams
• Fiber: 6 grams
• Vitamin C: 12% of (DV)
• Vitamin K: 6% of DV
• Potassium: 4% of the DV
• Copper: 16% of DV

Health Benefits: Increase digestive power. It potentially helps in information, diabetes control. It has anti-cancer properties and aids in weight loss as well as boost immunity.

How to eat: Add to in your fruits salad.

39. Melon Pear Fruit

Melon Pear, another name is Pepino.

Famous in: South America

Color: Light green to yellow

Taste: Sweet flesh with a mixture of cantaloupe and honeydew

Nutrition: 100 gm contains 96 calories, phosphorus 11 mg, potassium 119 mg, vitamin c 4.2 mg, and natural sugar.

Health benefits: Act against AIDS, psoriasis, cancer, etc. Significantly affect in lower the glucose levels and maintain the rate.

40. Mallika Mango Fruit

Mallika mango is a popular Indian fruit that begins with the letter M that is green and sweet.

41. Marula Fruit

Famous In: Southern Africa

Common Name: Jelly plum, Morula

Color: Light yellow

Taste:  The taste is the mixture of pears and passion fruit. (sweet-sour-tart)

Nutrients:  High in Vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, etc.

Health Benefits:  The fruit is beneficial during the treatment of malaria, diarrhea, and many more.

How to Eat:  You can eat Marula fruit fresh.

42. Midyim Fruit

Famous In: Australia

Common Name: Midgen Berry

Color: Small Blue spots on white skin

Taste:  Sweet

Nutrients:  The fruit contains Dietary fiber, iron, calcium, etc.

Health Benefits:  The edible fruit is safe and increases body strength and energy.

How to Eat:  You can eat Midyim fruit fresh. It is also used in salad, savory dishes.

43. Marionberry Fruit

Famous In: Oregon

Common Name: The Allegheny blackberry

Color:  Dark Purple

Taste: Sweet and tart

Nutrients:  Marionberry contains Vitamin C, A, dietary fiber, sodium, protein, etc.

Health Benefits: The fruits protect your body and fight against cancer.

How to Eat:  People love to take with recipes. However, it was also taken by jam, jellies, sharbat. Frankly, there are many options.

44. Maypop Fruit

 Maypop is another fruit that starts with M and is native to the United States.

Another name of the fruit is Passiflora. We added this fruit to our fruit list P.

However, you can eat it fresh, and you will get an apricot flavor.

45. Monstera Deliciosa Fruit

Famous In: Mexico

Common Name:  Swiss Cheese Plant

Color:  Green color with creamy spike

Taste:  The taste is quite similar to pineapple and jackfruit.

Nutrients:  The fruit is high in Vitamin C, phosphorous, fiber, etc.

How to Eat: You need to remove the upper greener part and bite the white fleshy part.

46. Membrillo Fruit

Membrillo fruit’s English name is Quince. It tastes similar to Quince cheese and pasta.

Membrillo looks like a mixture of apple and pear. The most exciting fact is that its juicy creamy texture tastes but slightly sour and tannic after taste.

You can take it as a salad.

Color: Yellow. 

Health Benefits: High source of antioxidants, best treatable wat for stomach ulcer, help to reduce acidity, use in an allergic reaction.

47. May Pride Peach Fruit

May pride peach is shown in mid-January. It has a slightly tart flavor with a sweet aftertaste. The ripen may pride peach exactly look like an apple.

May price peach content a large number of antioxidants helpful in inflammation, cell growth, and boost immunity. 

May pride peach protect from aging skin and cancer. The name comes from its growth time. The fruit is fully grown and eatable in May.

Nutrition: present vitamin A 6%, Vitamin C-15% also content niacin, etc.

So, these are our most favorite fruits list. Let’s talk about some crucial queries.

Wrap up on Fruits that start with M

So, what do you think about this list? Which fruit are you going to taste? Are you confused because of the extensive list? 

Frankly, you can’t get all M fruits in a single place. You have to visit the different countries to get access to all fruits.

However, fruits are always the safest option to maintain a healthy lifestyle. So add the mixture of fruits in your salads and snacks and always stay fit and healthy.

I think all fruits are covered; those start with the letter M. If I forget anything, don’t forget to pin me in the comment section.

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