Both cans are same lot code but one has galvanized looking interior and has a smell I would associate with canned fish. The mango puree itself smells and tastes normal. Even the can that doesn’t smell off looks a bit iffy at the seam.
There is another brand with the same issue plus visible corrosion on the rim, and the only other one I’ve seen is likely worse since the can exteriors are all sticky and dented.
Update: I have emailed what I assume to be the importer. I also found a different brand with the same problem. This one has some of the golen colour at the seam but the galv look plus some darker corroded looking spots elsewhere.
The smell I said I would associate with fish is more of a nasal stinging metallic smell, but the only other thing I have detected that smell in was canned fish. I could be misidentifying it though seeing as I have worked with a multitude of metals in the past and I can’t put the name of any specific metals to the smell. I drank some of the mango lassi before rinsing the can and noticing the issue but the metallic smell lingers as an aftertaste for quite some time, becoming more noticable as the mango and yogurt taste fades.
Botulinum toxin is nothing to fuck with dude. Just chuck that shit and buy a different brand.
Straight from the can into my eyebrows
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.
If you ask, you know you already have something of an answer :) DO NOT EAT THE FISHY MANGO
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.
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.
Dont eat canned food
