Tangelo

Categories: Citrus | Hybrid fruit

The tangelo is citrus fruit that is a hybrid of a mandarin orange and a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much meat but producing excellent and plentiful juice.

Drug interactions

Studies by USDA scientists have so far shown that unlike grapefruit, interactions with statins ( or other drugs ) are not likely with Tangelos, even though it is dervived from a grapefruit crossed with a tangerine. This is apparently because the furanocoumarins in grapefruit are not expressed in Tangelos, nor most other very sweet citrus fruit as well. (source)

References

• Description of tangelo from Fruits of Warm Climates, (1987, ISBN 0961018410)

See also

• Orangelo
• Ugli fruit
• Minneola tangelo

External links

• Description of tangelode:Minneola

sv:Minneola