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Sweetness and what preserves them. Jarred mango chutney is fruit cooked down with sugar and vinegar until thick and glossy — sweet, tangy and mild. Mango achaar, the Indian pickle, is pieces of mango preserved in oil and salt with a great deal of spice: sour, salty and hot rather than sweet. They sit next to each other on the shelf and are not substitutes. A layer of oil on top means you are looking at achaar.

No. Fresh chutney is coriander, mint, coconut or tomato blitzed raw with chilli and lemon, made the same day and kept for a day or two at most. Jarred chutney is cooked, sweetened and preserved. Both are called chutney; they do different jobs on the plate.

An unopened jar or tub is stable at room temperature — the sugar and vinegar are what keep it — but once it has been opened it belongs in the fridge. Always follow the storage direction printed on the packaging.

Decant it into several smaller jars on the day you open it, keeping one in use and the rest sealed. Opening one big tub repeatedly exposes the whole lot to air and to whatever is on the spoon; opening it a handful of times instead is what keeps the last kilo as good as the first. Use a clean dry spoon, label each jar with the date you opened it, and refrigerate what is in use.

Go by the storage direction and the best-before date on the packaging rather than a general figure, and keep it cold, sealed and free of spoons that have been elsewhere. If a jar ever shows surface mould, smells off or seems to be fermenting, throw that jar out rather than scraping it.

The listing does not publish an ingredient list or allergen information. Read the label on the tub, and ask the store before ordering if you need to know in advance — particularly if you are cooking for other people. Formulations vary between brands, so what is in one manufacturer's chutney tells you nothing reliable about another's.

Poppadoms, samosas and pakoras are the obvious ones. It is equally at home on a cheeseboard against a strong cheddar, in a cheese sandwich, thinned into a glaze for roast or grilled chicken and pork, or stirred into mayonnaise or yoghurt as a quick dip. It also rescues a curry that has come out flat, where it adds sweetness and acidity at once.

Roughly 250 at about a 20g tablespoon each, which is a normal condiment portion. That is the figure that makes a catering pack make sense — the unit anyone actually serves is the spoonful.

At the current tub price of $26.00, reduced from $30.50 — a saving of $4.50, or 15% — that is roughly $0.10 a spoonful, taking the 5kg given in the product name.

Orders are dispatched by the store the next business day and typically arrive within 1 to 3 business days by courier. Enter your postcode at checkout to confirm delivery coverage for your address.

Free delivery applies on orders above $69 — the delivery fee is confirmed at checkout. There is no minimum order value.

Do not open it. Photograph it as it arrived and contact the store the same day. Returns are handled by the store that sold the item, and nothing in a store's policy limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.