Satsuma
Citrus unshiu · Citrus
Top 10 pairings
The satsuma is the cold-hardy, virtually seedless Japanese mandarin with the loosest skin of all citrus — a thin, baggy, slightly puffy rind that lifts away almost untouched. Mild, sweet and gently tart, with tender, delicate flesh, it is the easy-peel snacking mandarin behind most canned "mandarin oranges" and a fixture of late-autumn lunchboxes.
Picking a good onedrag
Heavy, taut, tight-buttonedPuffy, light, drying out
Shop freshEveryday bestSnacking, salads, segments over a cake or a fennel plate.
Weight in handSolid, rind just moving on the flesh
RindOrange with a green patch at the shoulder
The buttonButton on, browning at its edge
Smell at the rindFaintly sweet, mostly clean
These cues are Mandarin's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
74%
Edible part
88 g · peel and pips out
119 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Below 5 C the thin rind pits and then rots, worse the colder and longer it sits, and it shows only once the fruit warms up. Most fridges run colder - use the crisper.
90-95%
Humidity
Ventilated
Airflow