"Mango pickle" isn't one product in Maharashtra
Search "mango pickle" on UmedMart and you'll get a long list — and if you've never bought Maharashtrian pickle before, that list can be confusing, because the state doesn't have one mango pickle tradition. It has several, and they don't taste, look, or cost the same. Some SHGs call their jar a muramba, which leans sweet. Others simply call it a mango pickle or "mango lonche" — lonche (also spelled lonache) is just the Marathi word for pickle, and it usually signals a spicier, more everyday achar than a muramba. None of this is marketing language — it's in the tags and descriptions the SHGs themselves used when they listed these products.
To make the difference concrete rather than abstract, here's what three genuinely different SHG mango pickles — from three different parts of Maharashtra — actually are, checked live before this guide was written.
Runanubandh Sweet Mango Pickle — Konkan coast, sweet style
Made by Savitri SHG in Achara, Sindhudurg — deep in the Konkan, mango country. This is explicitly a sweet mango pickle (its own tags call it "muramba"), built around ripe mango's natural sugar rather than chilli heat. It's the one to reach for if you want something closer to a sweet-tart preserve you can eat by the spoonful, not a fiery side dish.
- Pack of 500 g — ₹264.24 (≈ ₹52.85 per 100 g)
- Pack of 1000 g — ₹348.13 (≈ ₹34.81 per 100 g — noticeably better value if you go through pickle quickly at home)
Asha Foods & Masala Mango Pickle — Satara, tangy and spicy
Made by Maitreya Swayam Sahayta Mahila Samuh in Wai, Satara, in western Maharashtra. Where Runanubandh's is sweet, this one is described by its own SHG as tangy and spicy — the more familiar profile if you grew up on a typical North or West Indian mango achar, heavy on mustard-oil tang and chilli rather than sugar.
- Pack of 250 g — ₹156.39 (≈ ₹62.56 per 100 g)
- Pack of 500 g — ₹204.32 (≈ ₹40.86 per 100 g)
AAI Vaishnavi Mango Pickle — Marathwada, and an honest gap in the listing
Made in Beed, in Marathwada — a region less represented in UmedMart's pickle range than the Konkan or Satara belt, which on its own makes this one worth knowing about. Its tags call it "mango lonche," which usually points to a spiced, everyday-style pickle rather than a sweet one, in keeping with how the word is used elsewhere on the site. That said, we'd rather tell you plainly than guess: this particular listing's own product description is thin and doesn't spell out sweet-versus-spicy the way the other two do, so treat that as a genuine gap rather than us picking a side. If you want a first taste of Marathwada's mango pickle and don't mind starting with a smaller pack, this is a reasonable way in — just don't expect the description to promise a flavour it hasn't confirmed.
- Pack of 250 g — ₹228.29 (≈ ₹91.32 per 100 g — the priciest per-gram of the three, worth knowing before you order a full jar)
A quick stock note
As with other small-batch listings on this site, none of these five packs show a positive stock count in the product data, and one or two carry tags that look stale. That's a known quirk of how continue-selling inventory is tracked here, not a sign these are unavailable — each of the five variants above was checked individually and confirmed orderable at the time this guide was published. If one shows unavailable at checkout on a given day, it's worth checking back rather than writing it off.
Storage, once it's home
All three are handmade without industrial preservatives, so they keep the same way any homemade Indian pickle does: in a cool, dry place, lid tightly closed, served out with a clean, dry spoon every time. A wet spoon dipped in once is the most common reason a good homemade pickle spoils before it should.
For karvand's pickle, chutney and jam preparations rather than mango, see our guide to Maharashtra's karvand. To browse the rest of what's currently listed, the Pickles & Karvand Chutney collection is a good place to look next.
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