Satsuma

Why is the skin loose and puffy on some of my tangerines?

By The FruitGuys on January 28, 2015

Q: Why is the skin loose and puffy on some of my tangerines? A: Those are delicious satsuma mandarin oranges! They have a naturally loose, sometimes bumpy peel. At first glance, people sometimes …

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Customer Service Answers Some Fruit Quality Questions

By The FruitGuys on February 7, 2012

Fruit Quality Grab Bag Winter can bring some challenges to keeping fruit at the appropriate temperatures during transport. Our buyers, packers, and delivery people do their best to keep fruit …

Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, FruitGuys News Tagged With: ask the fruitguys, bananas, black bananas, customer service, green bananas, how to ripen bananas, puffy tangerines, Satsuma, satsuma mandarin, soft tangerine

Satsuma

By The FruitGuys on December 14, 2010

Satsumas - the little darlings of the citrus season are here. When you squeeze their pudgy little baby cheeks and exclaim, "Oy!' This little guy is an old soul!" No, no, no - Satsumas often have a …

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FruitGuy Noir: Satsuma Rainbow

By Chris Mittelstaedt on December 13, 2010

Calls were flying in like bats through a window at a mosquito family reunion. It was just my luck that someone had forgotten to smack me with two fistfuls of citronella aftershave. It was that kind of …

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The Book of Citrus

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 9, 2010

Jonathan Sauer, in his book Historical Geography of Crop Plants: A Select Roster, notes that “Almost nothing is certain about the natural geography and ecology of truly wild citrus. Both the …

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Profile: Chaffin Family Orchards

By Heidi Lewis on January 22, 2010

Oroville, CA - Oroville is a gold rush town in Butte County, CA. Oro means gold in Spanish, and during the Gold Rush prospectors stampeded over the area in a greedy frenzy. When Del Chaffin came to …

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A Fruitful Holiday Season

By Jeff Koelemay on November 20, 2009

Fruit + Mouth = YUM When you read a digital clock, do you try to make equations out of the time? When you're driving, do you calculate factors of the mile markers and add license plate numbers up to …

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We’re Gonna Zoom, Zoom, Zoom-a-Zoom

By Chris Mittelstaedt on October 26, 2004

The Boston Red Sox going to the World Series made me remember how much I loved the kids show ZOOM. It was based in Boston and they used to close the show with a rhyming, pre-rap snap game. Since it is …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: fall, mandarin, Satsuma, winter, zoom