Not ready for LBN: Hawaiian Woman Shows Off Her BIG Mango!

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Woman Shows Off Five-Pound Monster Mango (PHOTO AT LINK ABOVE)
By KARIN STANTON
4 hours ago

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - When Colleen Porter took her mango to the local grocer, it wasn't to sell it, but to weigh it and show it off. Colleen Porter, already a state mango record holder, has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as growing the world's heaviest mango -- 5 pounds, 7 ounces. The monster mango appears to be close to the size of a human head.

Porter, 47, a skin care specialist at Kona Center of Facial Surgery, has a certificate from Guinness to prove the record. She's framed it -- in mango wood, of course.

Virginia Easton-Smith, West Hawaii agricultural extension agent for the University of Hawaii, who helped with the submission to Guinness, confirms the record. The fruit had to be weighed and documented two separate times by three people. Independent witnesses verified six weighings.

Porter, who tends a small avocado and mango orchard, also stopped by several local grocery stores to check out her mango on their scales. The record-breaking fruit is a Keitt mango, which typically reach two to three pounds.

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