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To find out the best way to store oranges, we ran a series of tests and spoke to a USDA scientist. One method was better than others.
The loquat is a large evergreen shrub that bears dozens of bulb-like orange fruit in the late spring and early summer.
The Colorado Orange is no orange; it is an apple, with a unique texture and citrus taste. There's a new effort to bring it and other endangered Colorado apples back from the brink of extinction.
Persimmon fruit vary in their size, shape, color and fruit texture, so, when buying a persimmon tree, keep this in mind to fit your preferences.
Some argue that orange peels contain important nutrients and should be eaten rather than thrown away. This article reviews whether orange peels are a healthy addition to your diet.
Since the only difference in the food was the texture, Komarov suspected an intact taste organ also allows a larva to detect that delicious not-too-hard, not-too-soft rotting fruit texture.
The phrase "comparing apples and oranges" is often invoked when a person compares two items that are thought to be so different as to make any comparison invalid. But are apples and oranges really ...
Not all fruit trees grow well in the Jacksonville area, but these low-maintenance varieties will thrive.
The Osage orange goes by many names, including green brain, monkey ball and horse apple. JIANG TIANMU/Shutterstock On our farm just along the edge of a country road, there was a tree that grew brains.
But this unsightly fruit wasn’t always so undesirable, and the Osage orange has a rich, productive history in Texas and beyond.
In 2012, reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The answer to this question is actually pretty simple: Orange ...