Solution

Mango is a drupe: a fleshy, one-seeded fruit developing from a monocarpellary superior ovary.
Its pericarp has a thin outer epicarp (skin), a fleshy, juicy mesocarp, and a hard, stony endocarp around the seed.
The fleshy mesocarp is the part that is eaten.
So the edible part of mango is the mesocarp.

Concept Fleshy mesocarp of drupe

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