How to choose a sweet oranges?


What should be orange? Of course, sweet, to answer the majority of readers. But, unfortunately, such are not all orange balls, brought you home.

Strictly speaking, totally sweet orange, as well as completely sour, it is difficult to find. Characteristic taste - sweet and sour with some share of sourness. That is the taste of the fruit have an orange tree.

Wikipedia believes that an orange tree artificially derived in ancient times in China, where some unknown gardener managed to cross a tangerine and pomelo. Whatever it was, but thanks to the Portuguese trees reached Europe and flourish throughout the Mediterranean coast.

There are those who, having tasted too sour, in his view, fruit, angrily curses entrepreneurs. Buy, say, on the cheap feed oranges, and now shoved honest citizens do not know that.

In fact, no feeding of oranges does not happen, but the opinion of their existence stems from the fact that in many countries, waste production of orange juice - the pulp remaining after extraction is added to animal feed.

The most important factor of sweets - a variety of orange. Ask the seller may have variety name found in the accompanying documents or packaging.

Most sweet varieties, so-called sugar - Sukkari and Mosambi. Their plantations are common in Pakistan and India, but the importers of sugar are imported varieties reluctantly. The reason is that so valued in the sweets. Without the characteristic sour orange like a few.

By the way, the results of studies published in the journal Biological Pakistan in 2000 (Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences), Class Mosambi most prone to the accumulation of radionuclides, among all orange varieties in Pakistan.

From the usual compatriots - the sweetness of different so-called "umbilical" class, which can detect the small additional fetus formed in the basis of an orange. Outwardly, this place looks like the navel, hence the name.

You can find the view that sweet oranges will necessarily have a thick crust. Questionable assertion, there are sweet varieties as tolstokorye or not.

In class, on the sweetness of orange influenced by natural factors such as the composition of the soil on which the tree grows, storage conditions and degree of ripeness. It's no secret that the unripe fruit is easier to store and transport, so they collect and ahead of time.

Do not forget to ask the origin of the fruit. The best in the world are the oranges from the United States and the Mediterranean countries, although personally my taste Egyptian. The reason for the peculiarities of climate and culture of cultivation.

By analogy with local fruits, sometimes buyers are guided by the color of the fruit, believing that a ripe orange has to be bright orange. In fact crust may be greenish, the ripeness and sweetness are not affected.

But the weight and smell reliably prompt, ripe oranges or not. The aroma of ripe oranges is heard at once, and unripe fruit is much heavier.

Successful choice and enjoy your meal.