The most nutritious ways of serving citrus are as fresh fruit or fresh-squeezed juice. Citrus fruits are well known for their vitamin C content, but are also good sources of vitamin A, folic acid, and dietary fiber.
The lemon is a round, slightly elongated fruit, it has a strong and resistant skin, with an intense bright yellow colour when it is totally ripe, giving off a special aroma when it is cut. The pulp is pale yellow, juicy and acid, divided in gores.
The subtropical citrus tree known for its sweet-sour and somewhat bitter taste called the Grapefruit is a unique treat for your palate. The Grapefruit is an accidental hybrid between the Jamaican Sweet Orange and the Indonesian Pomelo. The fruit is orange and yellow in skin, mid-sized and is also called the ‘Forbidden fruit’.
A kumquat is an edible, orange-like fruit that is native to Southeast Asia. Though the citrus fruit resembles an orange in shape and colour, it’s actually quite small—about the size of an olive, and has a sweet-tart citrus flavour.
The mandarin orange, also known as the mandarin or mandarine, is a small citrus tree with fruit resembling other oranges, usually eaten plain or in fruit salads.
Navel orange is a fruit from the species Citrus x sinensis or in everyday terms, a sweet orange in the rue family Rutaceae. Navel oranges are part of the winter citrus family, available during the Christmas holidays.
The Valencia orange is a sweet orange. It was first hybridized by pioneer American agronomist and land developer William Wolfskill in the mid-19th century on his farm in Santa Ana, southern California, United States, North America.