I've had this happen too. I couldn't use the can because of the metallic taste. It has put me off buying canned mango pulp for a while.
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Not sure about the can, but I'd recommend not eating any canned fruit that had its liner dissolved into it. I don't think the liner was made to be consumed.
To be clear: I'm not a doctor, nor am I an expert in anything I just said. I'm just guessing here
The final product might be from the same lot, but the cans themselves may not be. I wouldn't be as worried about the lining as about the smell.
If it doesn't look right and doesn't smell right, it's an easy decision to make unless you're stuck in a bunker with zombies outside and food is running low.
smell I would associate with canned fish.
Not heavy metal poisoning. Such a smell is always from bacteria. Even when there's real fish, the smell comes from bacteria (but then we think it belongs there).
With mango, that smell doesn't belong there at all, and so I would throw it away in the same second when I smell it.
its not so much a fishy smell, but a metallic one that I have only ever picked up as a scent note in canned fish. It kinda stings in the nasal passage.
but a metallic one [...] kinda stings in the nasal passage.
Then maybe ammonia gas, or some acid, but I don't really know.
Botulinum toxin is nothing to fuck with dude. Just chuck that shit and buy a different brand.
Straight from the can into my eyebrows
Make sure to get under the eye for those crows feet, also.
If you ask, you know you already have something of an answer :) DO NOT EAT THE FISHY MANGO
Or do and report back with the outcome. You might spend some time on the toilet, so you're going to have time to.
No seriously: don't! Botulism can be lethal. After some days of suffering.
I can't write back when I'm puking.
Oh. Right. Glad you didn't try the fishy mango.
Too tempting
If it's an issue like this, I wouldn't go by smell. You probably don't know what chemical or metal got into the food from a smell.
Humans are generally good at detecting mold/bacteria smells, generally. This is not that.
It looks like a food grade can lacquer to preserve the tin, and it failed. Wouldn't eat the mangoes, and I'd tell the company. It's probably not the end of the world if you ate some but I wouldn't eat the rest.
Don't mess with dented cans and such. Even botulism, the really dangerous bacteria, won't often be smelled.
Don’t mess with dented cans and such.
What's the danger there?
Dented cans can risk causing botulism if the damage breaks the airtight seal of the container, allowing Clostridium botulinum bacteria or spores to enter and grow in the low-oxygen environment
Swollen dented cans are the ones to avoid, as in dented outward
What would be the entry point if the can's only dented?
A hole would be the entry point. Bacteris and spores are pretty small, so it could be a very small hole.
How large of a brans is it, and is it from your country. Contact someone and complain.
I work at a small food plant who only sells to our own country. We send out free products all the time as a sorry. Some really dumb complaints but out the free box goes
Cans shouldn't be made of heavy metals, and the can on the left looks like zinc galvanization. That said, companies all around the world do shitty things so I would look for information specific to this company.
It's not the metal can I'd be worried about but the coating that now is in the content itself.
Presumably, they wouldn't be using heavy metals or anything else highly toxic in the lining material meant for food packaging.
That is ... assuming some corpo exec hasn't figured out that they can save $0.003 per can by using toxic lining instead of safe lining.
I doubt it's anything highly toxic but you're still not supposed to eat it as it probably isn't good for you. Teflon isn't good for you either but it's fine for as long as it stays on the pan and doesn't transfer into the food.
They are
Maybe try sending that picture to the company that made the mangoes. I am not able to find a good source on if it is toxic or not though.
i would avoid that.
Not if you can eat the entire can before the gluons from the metal reach critical fart pressure

