On Food and Cooking

sweet oranges by a mixture of lycopene and beta-carotene and by cryptoxanthin. The purple-red of blood or ...

rivaling the tomato (oranges reach 70 milligrams per 100 grams, grapefruits 250). They contain little starch and ...

Citrus Peel The intensely flavored citrus peel has long been used to flavor dishes (for example, drie ...

century the high-pectin, readily gelled sour orange had begun to replace the quince. Marmalade m ...

medica, the mandarin orange Citrus reticulata, and the pummelo Citrus grandis. At least one offspring ...

The chemicals listed in the first five flavor headings are terpenes, which are especially characte ...

and commonly processed into canned segments. Pummelo Pummelos require the warmest growing conditions of t ...

different kinds of fruit. Navel oranges probably originated in China, but became a major commodity worldwide ...

The Parent Species Citron Citrus medica Mandarin, tangerine Citrus reticulata Pummelo Citrus grandis Their Offspring ...

Modern Hybrids Tangelo Citrus x tangelo, tangerine x grapefruit Tangor Citrus x nobilis, tangerine x sweet o ...

autumn and winter. The pigments tend to accumulate at the blossom end and in vesicles immediately next to the segm ...

main ingredient in marmalade. Sour-orange flowers are used to make orange flower water. Grapefruit The grap ...

juice becomes bitter on standing. Some grapefruit phenolic compounds turn out to interfere with o ...

seedless, more cold-tolerant Persian or Tahiti or Bearss lime, C. latifolia, may be a hybrid between the true ...

lemon, and also a couple of further hybrids. The large, coarse Ponderosa variety is probably a lemon-citron ...

process — for example, freezing and thawing the lemons to speed salt penetration, then salting for a few hou ...

generally tart but not bitter. The calamondin or calamansi, also a diminutive citrus, is probably derived in par ...

The yuzu, Citrus junos, possibly a mandarin hybrid, came from China but was developed in Japan beginning ...

A century ago, only a handful of tropical fruits were available to Europe and North America, and they w ...

couple of ounces to 2 lb/50–900 gm. The characteristic curve of long fruits develops because the fruit t ...