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A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way
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- Cider9986 7mo agoThe improvements in fruit over the years has improved my quality of life so much. If you have never tried a sumo citrus, I recommend it -- they are only in season till April iirc. Benefits of sumo citrus: Easy to peel Pith does not remain attached to orange Super juicy Excellent taste and texture, balanced acid and sugar levels. https://archive.is/wBogT https://archive.is/wBogT
- HerbManic 7mo agoIt is always a good time of year then they come along. I have had WAY too many of them but thats not going to stop me from having many more.
- fanatic2pope 7mo agoFunny enough I was eating a Sumo as I came across your comment. They are certainly very tasty, but for the price (which is high at least here in Ohio) I much prefer the tartness of a traditional in-season California satsuma.
- throwup238 7mo agoAll the California satsumas I can find here in California have all converged on the dekopon/Sumo taste and form. It’s confusing because the satsumas on Google images are still mostly the round ones without the bumps. The prices vary wildly. At the end of the season I can find them in some ethnic grocers for $0.33 a pound while right now they’re $1.50-2 a pound. When they were first coming out years ago they were $4 a piece at Trader Joes.
- hinkley 7mo agoJapan does have the bumpy ones. Clementines tend to be more thin-skinned.
- bitshiftfaced 7mo agoThere are dekopon trees that give fruit with the bump and without the bump. You may be finding the ones without the bump. But satsumas have a different enough flavor that you should be able to tell. Also, satsumas are smaller, more oblong, and tend to have a thinner skin.
- hinkley 7mo agoI highly recommend trying a cold Sumo. Refrigerated sumos are a bit of an aranciata vibe. Sumos are bright and brightly flavored fruit often have a better experience when chilled.
- bitshiftfaced 7mo agoIt depends on the season, but they tend to have too much acid at first. Leaving them in the fridge reduces the acid over time improves the flavor profile. But really you should refrigerate all citrus.
- hinkley 7mo agoNah. Mandarins I prefer at room temperature. But I refrigerate apples because I like the crunch.
- waldothedog 7mo agoLike sumo, but love minneola!
- bitshiftfaced 7mo agoSimilarly, the Tango variety is becoming more commercially available. It has a zipper peel, seedless, and outstanding flavor. It's usually marketed as "Mandarin", though. You kind of have to know what it looks like to be able to tell what's a clementine or not. Others to watch out for are Gold Nugget (my favorite, but I very rarely see them at the store), and I also saw Kishu at the grocery store for the first time this year.
- pinkmuffinere 7mo agoI love fruits and vegetables, and am excited about this! That said, I do worry long-term about changes to increase sugar content. Sure it’s delicious, but I think it’s almost strictly worse for me. If only the high-sugar items sell, it will become harder to find low-sugar items. Not to mention the amount of self-control that will be required.
- leptons 7mo agoOne thing I love about low-sugar citrus is the ability for it to not spike my sugar levels. I use Miracle Fruit extract which alters the taste buds temporarily to turn sour flavors into sweet flavors. I can eat an entire lime and it tastes like sweet candy, with no real sugar content. No artificial sweetening either.
- vscode-rest 7mo agoI worry for your enamel.
- leptons 7mo agoIt's not like I'm eating a lime every hour, or every day. It's just an example.
- prewett 7mo agoI wish they'd sell old varieties of apples. The new ones all insist of having Red Delicious (so called) as part of the genetic makeup. It does not impart a good flavor. There are all these nice old ones, like Cortland and Winesap, but you can't get them anywhere.
- Tomte 7mo agoI love Boskoop, and they are thankfully still all over German supermarkets. If not, Holstein Cox will do, and if they have it, Elstar. The real good ones, like Berlepsch, are hard to find here, though, unless you travel to a plantation.
- black_puppydog 7mo ago+1 on Boskoop. But also Cox Orange and James Grief
- FinnKuhn 7mo agoAlso love Boskoop, but I feel like they can be more difficult to find than other Apples in German supermarkets. Any other Apple variety just feels not nearly as juice and regularly too sweet for my taste - especially when you want to use them for baking.
- dodger-dog 7mo agoHave you ever even Honey-Crisped, Bro?
- simojo 7mo agoNot if you have a local amish plug
- IncreasePosts 7mo agoCosmic crisp seems very commonly available(at least, here in colorado) and has a great taste and texture with no red delicious genes present
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- sublinear 7mo agoI don't really care if my food is GMO as much as I worry about nutrient content being reduced to cut costs. What is the incentive here? I don't want to live in a world where fruit is bastardized into candy, meat is missing amino acids in the protein, and everyone has fucking diabetes as a result and dies at 40. We don't even need gene editing to have seen this game played before. It happened throughout the previous century. Look at the history of iceberg lettuce and other watery slop like cheap tomatoes.
- detourdog 7mo agoMy GMO concerns are all centered around the vulnerability of monoculture crops. Having a variety seems to make the food supply more resilient.
- hinkley 7mo agoThere's some compelling reasoning that dwarfism to maximize produce size has contributed substantially to the reduction in nutrients. Because when the tree fruits, it pulls nutrients out of the rest of the plant. And if there's less plant, then you get produce that's more water and carbon and less nutrient.
- passwordoops 7mo agoFaced with a full-length pop-up saying they care about my privacy just made me think, "if you cared about my privacy, you wouldn't track me and therefore wouldn't need ny consent for anything"
- Cpoll 7mo agoThey bury the "Reject" button behind two clicks too.
- mmooss 7mo agoThe Economist tries hard to normalize GMO food, without ever raising the issues and addressing them. Whatever one thinks of that issue, this technique is deception: It decieves people into thinking that it's normal, that there are no issues; it makes it easy to just follow, hard to question. People follow norms, and that's how you convice them to put aside their concerns. > Over thousands of years of domestication, humans have moulded fruit to their liking. ... As Pairwise’s blackberries and cherries show, advances in gene editing are allowing fruits to be altered in new ways. crispr, the most popular such technique at the moment ... > The European Union’s Parliament and Council, the bloc’s governing body, reached a provisional deal in December to “simplify” the process for marketing plants bred through new genomic techniques, such as by scrapping the need to label them any differently from conventional ones. That seems an appropriately fruitful approach. But there is this interesting tidbit, purely from the money-making perspective: > ... unlike existing genetically modified crops, those made using crispr do not require dna from a foreign organism to be inserted—a practice that experience shows puts customers off.
- linkregister 7mo agoYour comment presupposes the benefits of GMO agriculture are outweighed by the costs. If we make assertions, we should back them up.
- gruez 7mo ago>Whatever one thinks of that issue, this technique is deception: It decieves people into thinking that it's normal, that there are no issues; it makes it easy to just follow, hard to question. People follow norms, and that's how you convice them to put aside their concerns. Should every article about vaccines also include a disclaimer about how some people think they cause autism?
- themafia 7mo agoIf your goal is to help allay the fears of people who hold that view, then obviously, yes! If your goal is constantly punch down and find a class of people you're "allowed" to bully for thinking differently, then by all means, proceed as you have.
- comrade1234 7mo agoGlad I live where growing this unnecessary genetically engineered shit is illegal. Patents on food shouldn't exist.
- Cpoll 7mo agoPlant patents predate GMOs. If you cross-pollinate or graft into a new cultivar, you can patent it. Here's a climbing rose patent from 1930: https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP1P/en https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP1P/en
- Hammershaft 7mo agoWhat makes this 'shit' for you compared to the fruits we've conventionally engineered into unnatural forms via selective breeding?
- deepriverfish 7mo agoone thing I don't like about fruits nowadays is that they're too sweet, I don't remember grape being so sweets when I was younger for example, it's like eating sugary water.
- OutOfHere 7mo agoThey're a disaster. I have had to stop eating bananas and grapes for this reason. Also, taking the seeds out of grapes makes them much less healthy.
- jemmyw 7mo agoI thought bananas have been the same variety for a very long time now?
- liveoneggs 7mo agohave you had those cotton candy grapes?
- deepriverfish 7mo agono, but judging by the name I take they're super sweet?
- liveoneggs 7mo agoThey taste like cotton candy. It's the ultimate "wtf is going on with grapes?!" grape
- rngfnby 7mo agoLabel the fruit as a gmo and the market for them collapses. Which is why we're not allowed to have clear stickers at the store.
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- hinkley 7mo agoNew cultivars are kinda screwing up classic canning recipes because a common change is more neutral pH, which makes them more susceptible to decay organisms. Honeycrisps and red Fuji are pretty high.
- bitshiftfaced 7mo agoI have no doubt that blackberries will go this direction because it's annoying to get seeds stuck in your teeth. On the other hand, compare the fiber of blackberries (8g in one cup) to modern grapes (1g in one cup).