What you see: Black dots on your orange peel. What it is: Peel damage of some kind. Eat or toss: If the orange looks and smells good under the peel,
Dark spots on grapefruit peel
What you see: Dark spots on your grapefruit’s peel.What it is: A lot of issues could cause dark spots, but in this case a physical injury is likely.Eat or toss:
Blueish color just under your grapefruit’s peel?
What you see: A dark ring inside a cross section of your grapefruit rind. Or, if you’ve peeled the fruit, you may see a blue tinge just below the exterior peel.
Why is this orange black inside?
What you see: A black area inside your orange (which we’re guessing is a navel orange).What it is: Most likely a confrontation between a fungus and the
Why did this orange turn purple?!?
What you see: An orange slice that looked normal and, many hours later, turned purple. What it is: A pigment in the orange reacted with iron on the knife used
Dark scratch on grapefruit
What you see: A dark, scratched-out-looking spot on your grapefruit. What it is: Probably an injury from the harvest process. Eat or toss? Eat! As long as
The light brown area on this grapefruit is harmless
What you see: Light brown scars on the peel, in a pattern something like broken lace. What it is: Wind scar. Eat or toss? Eat! This is only a superficial
The white fuzz inside your clementine is supposed to be there
What you see: A delicate white fluff in the center of your clementine (or tangerine, or other type of mandarin). What it is: Basically just an airier version of
