Grapefruit, also known as "grapefruit", is a hybrid of sweet orange and grapefruit. Its surface is yellow and orange, its skin is thin and juicy, its flesh is cracked and its taste is sour. Grapefruit can be divided into different varieties according to the color of pulp. The color of grapefruit pulp is white, pink and red. Grapefruit is rich in soluble fiber and vitamin C, and also rich in potassium, which is one of the natural foods with almost no sodium.

Grapefruit pulp tastes sour and bitter. People who like sweets may think grapefruit is not delicious. If they like acid and can adapt to the acidity and bitterness of this pulp, grapefruit can be said to be very delicious.

In addition to eating grapefruit directly, you can also make jam and fruit tea with grapefruit. The sour and bitter taste of grapefruit in this kind of food can be greatly neutralized, and even people who don't like the sour and bitter taste of grapefruit can experience the delicious taste of grapefruit.

The origin of grapefruit

The origin of grapefruit is somewhat legendary. After pomelo was planted in Barbados with Jamaican sweet orange and Indonesian pomelo, natural hybridization occurred between pomelo oranges, and pomelo was produced in the world.

Generally speaking, grapefruit at first is considered unpalatable. It was not until a·l· Duncan, a Florida native, discovered an excellent grapefruit plant in 1892 and named it "Duncan" that grapefruit began to be planted commercially. The mother tree of Duncan grapefruit is still alive, over 160 years old. Red-fleshed grapefruit is a mutation of 1929 from common white-fleshed grapefruit.

According to numerical taxonomy, grapefruit is a hybrid of grapefruit and sweet orange. The female parent of grapefruit is grapefruit. Because each pair of karyotypes of grapefruit appears in grapefruit, it can be confirmed that grapefruit is indeed a hybrid of grapefruit, but two different karyotypes may come from two independent hybridization events.