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Citrus - (Back To Fruit Info)
Selection: Good quality grapefruit will have smooth, firm and shiny skin. Pick fruit that is medium to large and heavy for its size. Most red or pink grapefruit will have a rich yellow coloring and a slight rose colored blush to the skin, while others will be yellow. Some varieties will "re-green" if they remain on the tree long enough. This means that color does not indicate ripeness, nor does it affect the flavor or quality of the fruit. Avoid: Avoid product that is soft, or that has dull or wrinkled skin with deep folds.
Usage: Eaten fresh or in fruit salads. Selection: Good quality grapefruit will have smooth, firm and shiny skin. Pick fruit that is medium to large and heavy for its size. Most white grapefruit will have a rich to pale yellow coloring. Some varieties will "re-green" if they remain on the tree long enough. This does not affect the flavor or quality of the fruit. Avoid: Avoid product that is soft, or that has dull or wrinkled skin with deep folds.
Usage: In fruit salads, gelatins, fruit drinks & desserts. Selection: Texture of the kumquat is juicy, the flavor is tart then sweet and the fruit contains tiny white seeds, but the entire fruit is edible. Good-quality kumquats will be firm, bright orange and fairly large. Avoid: Avoid product that is too small, overly soft or wrinkled.
Usage: Fish, salad, cooking, juices, baking, desserts . Selection: Good-quality lemons will be firm, smooth-skinned and heavy for their size. Medium to large-sized lemons are generally better. Avoid: Avoid product that is soft, spongy, wrinkled or has bumpy, rough or hard skin. Coarse, thick-skinned and light lemons will have less juice.
Selection: Good-quality limes will be medium to large in size, smooth skinned, light to deep-green in color and firm but not too hard. Avoid: Avoid product that is too small, is soft, wrinkled, rough or has yellow skin. KINNOW MANDARINS
Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough and bumpy skin. ROYAL MANDARINS Selection: Good-quality mandarins will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size and smooth-skinned with no deep grooves. The coloring will be deep orange to almost red. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough and bumpy skin.
Selection: Good-quality mandarins will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size and smooth-skinned with no deep grooves. The coloring will be deep orange to almost red. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough and bumpy skin.
Usage: Use as you would any orange. Selection: Also called pigmented orange, good-quality blood oranges should be firm and heavy for their size. Select thin-skinned oranges with smooth, finely-textured skin. The flavor of this orange has raspberry and strawberry overtones, and is less acidic than other oranges. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough, grooved or wrinkled skin.
Usage: Snacks, lunches, juice, salads & desserts & as glaze. Selection: Good-quality navel oranges should be firm and heavy for their size. Select thin-skinned oranges with smooth, finely-textured skin. Navel oranges are seedless. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough, grooved or wrinkled skin.
Usage: Snacks, lunches, juiced, in salads, desserts and as a glaze. Selection: Good-quality Valencia oranges should be firm and heavy for their size. Select thin-skinned oranges with smooth, finely-textured skin. Valencia oranges have seeds. Valencia oranges turn golden as they become fully ripe, but as they remain on the tree during warmer weather the orange skin re-absorbs chlorophyll from the leaves and the orange turns green again, beginning at the stem end. The fruit is actually fully ripe, sweet, juicy and bright orange inside. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough, grooved or wrinkled skin.
Usage: Eaten fresh, in salads, in jams, jellies, marmalades & syrups. Selection: Also called shaddock and Chinese grapefruit, good-quality pomelo will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size, round to slightly pointed at one end, and have slightly rough, yellow skin. Avoid: Avoid product that is extremely soft or lightweight.
Usage: Best eaten out-of-hand. Also used in salads, desserts and in main dishes. Selection: Good-quality tangerines will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for their size and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves. The coloring will be deep orange to almost red. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, spots of slight brown discoloring or dull and faded coloring overall.
Selection: Good-quality mandarins will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size and smooth-skinned with no deep grooves. The coloring will be deep orange to almost red. Avoid: Avoid product with soft spots, dull and faded coloring or rough and bumpy skin. |
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Selection: Good-quality mandarins will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size and smooth-skinned with no deep grooves. The coloring will be deep orange to almost red.
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