Oranges are technically a hesperidia, a kind
of berry. Orange, common name for citrus fruit of several trees. Different
varieties include the sweet orange, the sour, or Seville orange, and the
mandarin orange, or tangerine, all rich in vitamin C. It consists of several
easily separated carpel’s, or sections, each containing several seeds and many
juice cells, covered by a leathery exocarp, or skin, containing numerous oil
glands.
No English word rhymes with orange.
About 25 billion oranges are grown each year
in the United States.
You can unroll an orange. Slice off the top
and bottom of the orange. Slice once top to bottom and then just unroll the
orange into the segments.
The bottom of a navel orange looks like a
bellybutton or a navel. Fruit specialists believe that the navel is a smaller
fruit attached to the main orange. You can see this smaller fruit when you peel
and separate a navel orange.
Alexander the Great washed his hair in
saffron to keep it a lovely shiny orange color. During his time saffron was as
rare as diamonds and more expensive than gold.
Canaries were originally a mottled
greeny-brown, but 400 years of crossbreeding by humans produced their yellow
color. If you add red peppers to their diet it turns their feathers a beautiful
orange colors.
Orange, the British telecom company, was
founded in 1994. Brand consultants Wolff Olins developed the orange square to emphasize
the color, rather than the fruit. They drew on the Chinese aesthetic discipline
of feng shui, in which orange is the color of purpose and organization, and is
supposed to help focus concentration. In the same year, advertising agency WCRS
came up with the tag line: “The future’s bright, the future’s Orange.”
The black box flight data recorders on aircraft
are actually bright orange in color so that they can be found more easily. They
were originally called “black boxes” because early electronic prototypes were
stored in black metal boxes.
In Switzerland, oranges are sometimes served
smothered with sugar and whipped cream. Europeans sometimes eat oranges with
knives and forks.
Now go out and enjoy some delicious oranges.
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