On 20/09/12 22:57, Alain wrote:
> Very nice... except that ripe Valencia oranges are actualy green.
> They start green, turn orange, then turn back to a particular dark
> green once fully rippened. They are dyed orange before been sold.

   Hmmm... I'm not really an expert, so I don't know for sure, but I'm
surrounded by millions of orange trees and never seen this, or heard it
referred. To my knowledge, oranges just start green and turn orange.
People here traditionally collected them at that point, but due to
markets, today they collect them much sooner, when they are still a bit
green (or so says my mother, who worked as harvester when she was young).

   Personally, I *always* eat non-market oranges, picked directly from
the tree (some friends and family members have their own orange fields)
or purchased directly to the field owner in front of their house:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6820027554_1a5fb41634_z.jpg

   No dying here, they are sold as they come out from the tree... but
perhaps it is true for oranges marketed to distant places, as they are
picked still green.

   Regards,

--
Jaime

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