oranges
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How Many Oranges Can You Actually Eat Before the Vitamin C Will Kill You?
Everything in moderation. You could say that about, well, everything. But sometimes you want hard numbers. How many socks can you stick up your nose before the police get involved? Is a frog in one’s bidet one too many? Oh and what amount of orange consumption would result in death? Well over 9,000, it seems.…
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Mimicking Insect Mating Calls Could Combat Citrus Greening
Citrus greening is a disease that turns oranges sour and half-green, and it’s been ravaging orange groves in Florida for years. A novel strategy for controlling its spread may be found by mimicking the mating call of a tiny aphid-like brown insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.
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Orange Juice Is Artificially Flavoured To Taste Like Oranges
How do you make orange juice? Simple! Squeeze oranges and drink. How do big box companies make orange juice? Complicated! Squeeze oranges, remove oxygen, re-flavour the now flavourless orange juice with artificially orange “flavour packs” and… drink? Uhh…