Ugly Fruit
They have to wait for a juicer or processor to show interest or else they might go to waste.
Ugly fruit. Our mission is to combat food waste and provide affordable healthy produce to the world. It is indeed a rather ugly fruit mostly green and wrinkled until it is fully ripe when it turns orange like ours. Grocery stores want food that looks beautiful and unblemished on the outside which means that they dont want ugly food like scarred fruits and vegetables almonds with minor insect damage on the skin and apples blemished by the rough winter.
Its available from december through april and sometimes in the fall. Even though it looks less than appetizing on the outside the inside is filled with a sweet tangy flesh. The ugli fruit was found growing wild in jamaica and it is believed to be a hybrid of grapefruit and tangerine and perhaps pomelo.
The fruit can be enjoyed raw and on its own or you could add it to other dishes. Its generically known as tangelo and this article uses both terms interchangeably. Ugli fruit is high in vitamin c and fiber and with fewer than 40 calories per piece it also makes a great snack for anyone on a low calorie diet.
The jamaican tangelo also known by proprietary names ugli li fruit uglifruit and uniq fruit is a citrus fruit that arose on the island of jamaica through the natural hybridization of a tangerine or orange with a grapefruit or pomelo and is thus a tangelo. Ugli is a brand name that plays on the word.
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