The size of a tangerine with a thick purple rind the texture of pomegranate skin, the mangosteen is sought both for its exotic-tasting segmented white center and for the medicinal compounds which abound in its rind. In the late 19th century, David Fairchild, an English botanist commented on the gastronomical value of the fruit: &quot;It outranks in delicacy, if not all other fruits in the world, certainly all others of the tropical zone, and it is a joy to the eye as well as to the palate to…