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CITRUS SMASH! Clementines, tangelos, mandarins, oh my! Have you ever walked through the grocery store and wondered what are the differences between all the various types of citrus fruit, especially oranges? We have! This month, along with learning about all those orange varieties, we’ll also get to snack on some delicious and juicy citrus fruits. Sweet Oranges Mandarins Valencia Clementine Although named after Valencia, Spain, the Valencia A clementine is a hybrid between a mandarin orange originates from the area that is now orange and a sweet orange. The exterior, or peel, is California. It has a thin skin, which makes it hard to a deep orange color with a smooth, glossy peel and perfect for making orange juice. appearance, and their flesh is typically juicy and sweet. Navel Tangerine Navel oranges have that name because there is a Tangerines are smaller and less rounded than small second orange at the base of the fruit, bulging common oranges and are named after the city of out and making the end look a bit like a human Tangier, Morocco. The taste is considered less sour, navel, or belly button. Their easy to peel skin, lack as well as sweeter and stronger, than that of of seeds and strong walls of each orange segment oranges. A ripe tangerine is firm to slightly soft and make Navel oranges the number one eating orange. is heavy for its size. Blood Orange Tangelos Blood Oranges get their name from crimson, Sometimes referred to as honeybells, tangelos have almost blood-colored flesh. The distinctive dark loose skin and are easier to peel than oranges. They flesh color is due to the presence of anthocyanin, a grow to about the size of an adult fist and can be type of pigment commonly found in many flowers readily distinguished by a characteristic “nipple” at and fruit, but uncommon in citrus fruit. the stem. Joke: Why did the orange go to the doctor? Because it wasn’t peeling well. s April 2018 3 4 5 Orange you glad to know that… • It takes 5-7 years SPRING BREAK for an orange tree to start to produce good, edible fruit. 10 11 12 • There is more fiber Gold Nuggets in an orange than Gold Nuggets are a Grape Tomato Clementines Cucumber Slices in most other fruits seedless, sweet and veggies. tangerine named • All oranges contain after its bright something called 18 “carotene”, which orange, slightly 17 19 gives oranges their bumpy rind. They Gold Nugget Strawberries Pepper Medley orange color. were developed at Citrus Slices • A single orange the University of plant can bear as California at 26 many as 60,000 Riverside, and they 25 24 Zucchini & flowers but only are considered by Naval Orange 1% of those professional taste Jicama Sticks Yellow Squash flowers will turn testers to be one of Smiles into a fruit. the very best Sticks • About flavored citrus’ in the 25,000,000,000 (25 world. We hope you billion!) oranges enjoy their rich, are grown each sweet and full- year in America. bodied taste!.

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