The navel orange is a fire-reducing fruit. Navel orange is a kind of nature of cold fruit, usually people eat seventy percent, there will be no fire, on the contrary, it can also clear the heat to fire.

The navel orange fruit is most suitable for fresh food, fresh fruit can also be squeezed juice, with the squeeze with drink, but also has a different flavor. Navel orange flowers, its flowers can be smoked rue tea; peel, leaves and shoots can be extracted essential oil.

The navel orange is rich in nutrients, many nutrients than other citrus high. According to Japan's Kobayashi chapter navel orange high-quality yield technology and other reports: from the analysis of Wenzhou mandarin orange, summer citrus, Wendan (pomelo), touch citrus, lemons and navel oranges, such as 100g of edible part of the 15 kinds of nutrients, which the calories, sugar, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B2, such as six nutritional components of navel oranges topped the list.

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Morphological features of navel oranges

Leaves are usually slightly smaller than the grapefruit leaves, the pteridium is narrowly elongated, obvious or only traces of the leaf blade is ovate or ovate-elliptic , rarely lanceolate, 6-10 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, or larger.

Flowers white, rarely abaxially purplish red, racemes with a few flowers, or both axillary single flowers; calyx 5-3-lobed, petals 1.2-1.5 cm long; 20-25 stamens; style stout, stigma enlarged.

The fruit is globose, oblate or ellipsoid, orange-yellow to orange-red, with an umbilicus at the top of the fruit. The so-called umbilicus refers to some underdeveloped groups of carpels, which are completely wrapped by the mature orange peel, or wrapped around part of it, while part of it is exposed, resembling a navel.

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