Navel orange
Citrus sinensis 'Navel' · Citrus
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The navel is the world's favourite eating orange — a seedless, easy-peel, sweet and low-acid fruit named for the small navel-like dimple at its blossom end, where a tiny second, undeveloped fruit grows nested inside the first. Bred entirely by grafting from a single chance mutation, every navel orange alive is essentially a clone.
Picking a good onedrag
Just pickedDried out
Market freshBuy itThe everyday orange: still heavy, peels clean, juices well
WeightSolidly dense
RindFirm, faint give, still smooth
ButtonDry brown, still attached
SmellClearly fragrant at the skin
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What you get from one
73%
Edible part
131 g flesh · peel and pips out
179 g
Weight each
each one
48%
Juice
86 g from a medium orange
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 4× longer than the counter.
90–95%
Humidity
Ventilated
Airflow