Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> Not all oranges rippen the same way, or in the same time. Some go from
> flowers to ripe fruit in less than a year, other can take up to 3 to 5
> years... Some orange trees can have flowers, unripe fruits and ripe
> fruits at the same time.


>
> No paint, orange DYE.
> If you scratch the surface or a real valencia orange, you may find some
> green. That green rarely go deeper than 1mm. Under that, you have white
> peel, then orange flesh.

Well, I've been reporting before answering this, and must comment some thing. As
Valencian oranges are grown intensively is not very common in this area to have
varieties of orange that take more than a year to grow, it is normal to be
collected, depending on variety, between September and November, every year.

Oranges are not berries, but a cross man-made artificial, between grapefruit and
tangerines created in Southeast Asia. They produce and consume green "Oranges"
(and its called oranges).

John Lloyd, in his book "The new great little book of ignorance," reads:
Oranges are not a tropical fruit, but subtropical, and the color depends on
where you grow. In temperate climates, the green skin turns orange with the
fresh, on the contrary, in countries where it's always warm, the cold does not
destroy the chlorophyll, and green fruit preserves. For example, oranges are
eaten green in Honduras, in the country of origin, but are colored artificially
for export. To achieve this, they are sprayed with ethylene gas, a byproduct of
the oil whose main application is the production of plastic. Ethylene is the
most produced organic compound in the world, generated over one hundred million
tons annually. Remove the outer layer, naturally green, and reveals the better
known orange.

In the orange crop, where interested to get as much crop, the best quality
possible and as attractive as possible and with maximum shelf life possible,
what is done is to gather as much mandarin oranges, as the grapefruits or lemons
at a point very early ripening, almost green, although they are edible and taste
good, but his skin is still tight and thin, so that what is done is that the
tape passes automatically which toasts were literally given heat, and evenly,
making the orange has an attractive appearance, orange everywhere, with a thin
skin and easy to peel, and a long service life. If you think about it, it is
almost impossible for a wild orange is uniform in color, and the sun will be
areas of Orange to come not through the branches and leaves, but nevertheless,
oranges and tangerines we buy at the greengrocers are whole oranges. Why?,
Because it artificially roasted.

This responds to the complaint that many people have that "oranges today are not
like before." Clearly, because years ago oranges were cut at a point of optimum
maturity, so the orange was orange, and a taste of natural ripening on the tree,
but his appearance was of an orange with rough skin and enough and with a
lifespan of just two or three days. Today, oranges we buy are very attractive
visually, and last in our orchard until more than a week, by contrast, has a
bland flavor.

O yes. The original name for oranges was 'narangah' from Sanskrit, (naranja in
spanish) and literally means 'poison for elephants'. This is because of an old
legend which had as a delicacy orange was so rich and sweet that elephants came
to die of gluttony eating oranges.


Info extracted and translated from:
http://www.xatakaciencia.com/sabias-que/las-naranjas-no-son-de-color-naranja-porque-se-tinen-sinteticamente-para-que-pa
rezcan-naranjas

B. Gimeno

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