What exactly is a tangelo?!


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What exactly is a tangelo?


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The tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of any mandarin orange, popularly known as a tangerine, and either a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much flesh but producing excellent and plentiful juice.

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The tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of any mandarin orange, popularly known as a tangerine, and either a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much flesh but producing excellent and plentiful juice.

Tangelos; are deliberate or accidental hybrids of any mandarin orange and the grapefruit or pummelo.

It's a citrus fruit. Crossbreed between Tangerine and Orange

A juicy, sweetly tart citrus fruit with few seeds that takes its name from the fact that it`sa cross between the tangerine and the pomelo. There are many hybrids of this loose-skinned fruit, ranging in size from that of a tiny orange to that of a small grapefruit.

A fruit similar to an orange actually I think it a cross between an
orange and a tangerine

The tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of any mandarin orange, popularly known as a tangerine, and either a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much flesh but producing excellent and plentiful juice.

it is a orange and a tangerean breeded toget there they are really good but very small it was a experement and it made a hit in the supermarkets but there hard to find sometyhines

The tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of any mandarin orange

The tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of any mandarin orange, popularly known as a tangerine, and either a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much flesh but producing excellent and plentiful juice.

It is a citrus fruit, a cross between a Tangerine and a Pomelo.
Tangelo frequently appears on Countdown (Channel 4 programme)




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