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The pomelo (/ ˈ p ɒ m ɪ l oʊ, ˈ p ʌ m-/ POM-il-oh, PUM-; [2] [3] Citrus maxima), also known as a shaddock, is the largest citrus fruit. It is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit. It is a natural, non-hybrid, citrus fruit, native to Southeast Asia. Similar in taste to a sweet ...
Banpeiyu (Japanese: 晩白柚) is a cultivar of pomelo which produces extremely large fruits. [1] A banpeiyu fruit became the world's heaviest pomelo when it was presented by Seiji Sonoda from Japan for the Guinness World Record at the Banpeiyu Competition in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan on December 25, 2014. This specimen weighed 4.8597 kg (10 ...
The pomelo was the female ancestor; the sweet orange, itself a hybrid, was the male. [30] Both C. sinensis and C. maxima were present in the West Indies by 1692. One story of the fruit's origin is that a 17th-century trader named 'Captain Shaddock' [1] [32] brought pomelo seeds to Jamaica and bred the first fruit, which were then called ...
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Pomelo, a large citrus fruit known as 'pamplemousse' in French spoken in France; Grapefruit, a pomelo hybrid known by the name 'pamplemousse' in French spoken in Quebec, Switzerland and Belgium; Frankie Pamplemousse, a cartoon character on The ZhuZhus; A flavor of La Croix Sparkling Water "Pamplemousse", song by FKA Twigs on the 2022 mixtape ...
The dalandan is also commonly named the sour orange to differentiate the fruit from other species. The dalandan grows on the Citrus nobilis, as the fruit is described as a hybrid between the Pomelo and the Mandarin orange. The fruit originated in Southeast Asia, until the 16th century when American explorers introduced the fruit to the ...
The fruit is very sweet, round in shape and about 7–8 cm (2.8–3.1 in) wide in size. Trees are heavy bearing every other year, and sometimes the limbs break due to the heavy yields. Growers resort to propping the limbs up with sticks at times, though if the limb bends gradually down and grows in that position it will do better in future years.
Some fruit juices and fruits can interact with numerous drugs, in many cases causing adverse effects. [1] The effect is most studied with grapefruit and grapefruit juice, [1] but similar effects have been observed with certain other citrus fruits. [1] [2] [3] [4]