Bitter oranger, Seville orange, sour orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange refers tae a citrus tree (Citrus × aurantium) an its fruit. It is hybrid atween Citrus maxima (pomelo) an Citrus reticulata (mandarin).[2] Mony varieties o bitter oranger are uised for thair essential ile, which is uised in perfume, as a flavorin an as a solvent. The Seville orange variety is uised in the production o marmalade.
Bitter oranger is an aa employed in yerbal medicine as a stimulant an appetite suppressant, due tae its active ingredient, synephrine.[3][4] Bitter oranger supplements hae been linked tae a nummer o serious side effects an daiths, an consumer groups advocate avoidin medicinal uise o the fruit.[5]
Bitter oranger, Seville orange, sour orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange refers tae a citrus tree (Citrus × aurantium) an its fruit. It is hybrid atween Citrus maxima (pomelo) an Citrus reticulata (mandarin). Mony varieties o bitter oranger are uised for thair essential ile, which is uised in perfume, as a flavorin an as a solvent. The Seville orange variety is uised in the production o marmalade.
Bitter oranger is an aa employed in yerbal medicine as a stimulant an appetite suppressant, due tae its active ingredient, synephrine. Bitter oranger supplements hae been linked tae a nummer o serious side effects an daiths, an consumer groups advocate avoidin medicinal uise o the fruit.
The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree kent for its sour tae semi-sweet fruit, an 18t-century hybrid first bred in Barbados.[1] Whan foond, it wis named the "forbidden fruit";[2] an it haes an aa been misidentified wi the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), ane o the parents o this hybrid, the ither bein sweet orange (C. × sinensis).[3]
These evergreen trees uisually grow tae aroond 5–6 meters (16–20 ft) in hicht, tho thay can reak 13–15 metres (43–49 ft). The leafs is mirk green, lang (up tae 150 mm, 6 inch) an thin. It produces 5 cm (2 in) white fower-petaled flouers. The fruit is yellae-orange skinned an lairgely an oblate spheroid; it ranges in diameter frae 10–15 cm. The flesh is dividit in liths an is shilp, varyin in colour dependin on the cultivars, whilk include white, pink an reid pulps o varyin sweetness (generally, the reider varieties is sweeter). The 1929 US Ruby Red (o the Redblush variety) haes the first grapefruit patent.[4]
|access-date= requires |url= (help) |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help) The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree kent for its sour tae semi-sweet fruit, an 18t-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. Whan foond, it wis named the "forbidden fruit"; an it haes an aa been misidentified wi the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), ane o the parents o this hybrid, the ither bein sweet orange (C. × sinensis).
These evergreen trees uisually grow tae aroond 5–6 meters (16–20 ft) in hicht, tho thay can reak 13–15 metres (43–49 ft). The leafs is mirk green, lang (up tae 150 mm, 6 inch) an thin. It produces 5 cm (2 in) white fower-petaled flouers. The fruit is yellae-orange skinned an lairgely an oblate spheroid; it ranges in diameter frae 10–15 cm. The flesh is dividit in liths an is shilp, varyin in colour dependin on the cultivars, whilk include white, pink an reid pulps o varyin sweetness (generally, the reider varieties is sweeter). The 1929 US Ruby Red (o the Redblush variety) haes the first grapefruit patent.
