We wanted the mangoes of our childhood. So we built a company to bring them back.

Every Pakistani in Britain knows the disappointment: the supermarket shelves of Indian Kesar in early summer, the imported Alphonso boxes that arrive overripe, the gnawing memory of a fruit you can't find here.

PakMango exists because Pakistan grows the world's finest mangoes — and almost none of them make it to the UK in the condition they were picked in. We started with three orchards, three varieties, and a single rule: nothing leaves Pakistan that we wouldn't serve to our own families.

We pick at dawn. We pack at the orchard. We fly within the day. You taste the result.

— The PakMango team