FRUIT

Fruit Blog by Garrison Kennedy

Fruit makes you happy and healthy. They are grown and enjoyed all over the world. There are many types of fruits out there from the common apples and oranges to the exotic dragonfruit and durian. Each week a different fruit will be featured, including its origin, five facts and a world record about it. Let’s begin. This week’s feature fruit is a

Grapefruit

Grapefruit is the hybrid of a Jamaican sweet orange and a the Indonesian pomelo. The sweet orange is of Asian descent. It was first documented by Griffith Hughes, who described specimens from Barbados.

1.)    Grapefruit trees usually GROW UP TO 5-6 METERS

2.)    They were originally called the shaddock fruit

3.)    One of the most widely cultivated fruits in the United States

The longest grapefruit peel was 48 inches, made by Joshua Kilbride