Modern HybridsTangelo Citrus x tangelo, tangerine x
grapefruitTangor Citrus x nobilis, tangerine x sweet
orangeCommon or juice oranges have a smooth
blossom end, generally contain seeds, and
have a more adherent skin than navel oranges.
Commercial orange juice is made from juice
varieties with little tendency to develop
limonin bitterness. The mild flavor of the
juice is usually augmented by the addition of
peel oils.
Blood oranges have been grown in the
southern Mediterranean at least since the 18th
century, and may have originated there or in
China. They’re now the major type of orange
grown in Italy. Blood oranges owe the deep
maroon color of their juice to anthocyanin
pigments, which develop only when night
temperatures are low, in the Mediterranean