Therefore, enjoying the fruit twice a week will strengthen the immune system, enabling the body to better fight off infections and viruses. The content of the ascorbic acid, as 45 mg per 100 gr of fruit, gives sweetie antioxidant proprieties and the amount of vitamin C contained in the whole fruit completely covers the required daily dose. Sweetie has a high content of bioactive compounds and the most significant microelements contained per 100mg are: Calcium – 25 mg – Phosphorus – 18 mg – Sodium – 12 mg – Potassium – 182 mg – Magnesium – 11 mg. Sweetie Photo credit: Yot ( he:משתמש:יות) Nutritional values and virus fighting The pumelo-grapefruit hybrid is grown in California, Florida, Australia, and Israel. The fruit matures early, but retains its freshness on the tree throughout its peak season. Preferring to grow in subtropical and warm climates to hot valleys, oroblanco trees are hardy and they can tolerate near freezing conditions. We can even say that Citrus maxima x Citrus paradise, being its scientific name, is a fruit that went to college, can’t we? In the markets they are available from September to December. The first clue that it doesn’t come from spontaneous flora is the missing seeds, but the bright side of the hybrid is that oroblancos are bred using traditional cross-pollination methods not GMO. Cameron began a series of test plantings before a successful variation was refined. It’s the fruitful result of a nine-year project developed at a university citrus experiment station in California, Riverside that patented it in 1981. The fruit began being exported to Japan, where it was very well received and went up on top of fruit preferences. Israeli farmers, however, good at marketing and shaping perceptions, came up with the idea of calling them Sweeties and making their greenness a selling point to distinguish them from others. At first oroblancos were a favorite of shoppers, given the ideal balance they have of sweetness and tartness completed by a delicious piney flavor, and sellers loved their long shelf life.īut with the deceiving green peel suggesting an unripe fruit, which in this case doesn’t apply, of course, it turned off many buyers and producers stopped planting the trees. The white gold of grapefruit, as some call it, didn’t have a particularly a smooth path, commercially speaking. The white pith, however, must be discarded as it has a bitter taste. When peeling the rind, which is a bit thicker than normal, save it, dry it and add it to tea pots for extra fragrance and a citrus aftertaste. The skin must be shiny, unblemished, and unpuckered otherwise it can hide a dry flesh inside. A citrus and bitter scent says it’s not yet ready while a floral and grassy fragrance alongside it feeling too heavy for its size indicates the fruit is ripe and sweet. It’s the smell that is a more accurate guide. The oroblanco’s color does not give much of a clue as to how ripe the fruit is because a deep green one can be ready to eat and taste sweet. Well, isn’t that convenient? And like every citrus, it is high in Vitamin C too. In fact people say that it’s just like a grapefruit with the sugar already added, but don’t worry, it has a low-calorie content, between 20 to 70 calories per fruit, 40 calories per 100 g. And, as the name implies, it does taste sweet.
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