Journal Tangelo's

A lovely afternoon so I picked a plastic shopping bag on Tangelo's from our 2 tree's, put them through the juicer and got just over 1.5 litres of fresh juice. I put the juice in the fridge to cool.

Tangelo's are a cross between an Orange and a Grapefruit and very, very juicy. We have had a bumper crop this year and looking at the tree's I haven't made a visible impression on the amount of hanging fruit yet.

Here in NZ they ripen in October, our mid-Spring and will hang on the tree's until mid- January and then they start to slowly dry out.

Definition: The tangelo probably originated in southeastern Asia over 3,500 years ago. It is most likely a result of insect cross pollination of the Mandarin orange and the pummelo (pummelo is the ancestor of the grapefruit).