There is no difference between oranges and tangerines, rutabagas and tangerines have a difference in appearance and taste. In the northern region, people are used to writing oranges as tangerines, and most of the southern region will be called with oranges, fundamentally, oranges and tangerines refer to the same kind of fruit.

Difference in appearance: rutabaga fruit head is relatively large, similar to the spherical, loose skin, yellow or orange-yellow, thick and thick skin, peeled after its spongy layer is thicker.

Tangerine species are more, the size of the head is different, generally smaller than the rutabaga, flat round. The rind exterior color varies, there are orange-yellow and vermilion or orange-red. Their fruits are lower and thinner and easier to peel.

Taste difference: rutabagas have a sweet and sour taste, while oranges have a sweet and sour taste, mostly acidic.

Eat the peel. Don't pick off the filaments on the fruit petals, which are good dietary fiber. If possible, you can keep the peel and air-dry and preserve it to make orange peel, or soak the peel in water or boil it in soup to obtain orange peel glycosides, a biologically active substance.

Tangerine fruit and orange at the root of the said is not a kind, but people are difficult to distinguish, tangerine is the evergreen tree orange tree ripe fruit, the appearance of this fruit is slightly flat, written that is orange, but most areas of the common name for it is tangerine.

The real tangerine is the mature fruit of a variety of orange plants in the family of Rutaceae, Fukui orange or cinnabar orange, there are many types of this tangerine, such as kumquat, sweet tangerine and sour tangerine, etc., on the common varieties of tangerine.