Red-fleshed grapefruits
Basically, grapefruits with pink or even red pulp are significantly milder and sweeter than the varieties with white flesh. The darker a grapefruit is colored, the sweeter it tastes. Probably the red-fleshed grapefruit is the “Star Ruby” variety, which was selected in 1959 from seeds of the “Hudson” variety. The Star Ruby Grapefruit not only has very tasty fruits, but is also an attractive container plant with its wide, dark green and compact crown. In addition, it is relatively insensitive to cold. However, it only develops its strong red flesh at particularly high summer temperatures.
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More red-fleshed varieties
The red-fleshed grapefruit varieties listed below differ in the degree of pulp and skin color as well as in the more or less intense taste.
- Pink Marsh (old variety with light pink pulp and few to no seeds)
- Ruby Red (the oldest variety with a bright rose-colored flesh)
- Ray Ruby (much darker and therefore sweeter than Ruby Red)
- Rio Red (one of the most commercially grown varieties)
- Burgundy (deep red pulp, seedless)
- Henderson (commonly grown in Texas along with Rio Red and Ruby Red)
- Flame (one of the most commercially grown varieties)
Aromatic blood oranges
Blood oranges are oranges (Citrus aurantium) with red flesh. The taste of these fruits is very different from normal juice oranges, as they have a distinctive, fruity blackberry aroma when fully ripe. In contrast to the red fleshed grapefruit, the color of which develops through heat, the red flesh color of the blood oranges only develops at cold autumn temperatures.
Blood orange varieties
“Moro” is the most strongly pigmented blood orange in the pulp, which is often so intensely colored that the pulp appears almost black-brown. The shape of the fruit is round, and in contrast to the meat, the skin is only slightly red in color. Other varieties are:
- Sanguinelli (intense peel color)
- Sanguinello (half-blood orange with lighter pulp)
- Tarocco (fruit is often larger than other blood oranges, seedless)
By the way, the blood orange variety “Tarocco” has the supposedly highest vitamin C concentration of all citrus fruits.
Tips & Tricks
The so-called “New Zealand grapefruit” has a straw-colored, mildly aromatic pulp. Since it needs less heat than a normal grapefruit and also ripens early (December), it is more suitable as a summer outdoor container plant.
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