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a citrus that sabotages your medication and dares you to eat it anyway
means A large, round citrus fruit with thick yellow-pink skin and tart, slightly bitter juicy flesh, eaten fresh or juiced.
from Named in the West Indies in the early 19th century — the popular story is that the fruit grows in tight clusters on the branch, like oversized grapes, which is the most likely source of the odd name. It's a hybrid, a chance cross between the sweet orange and the pomelo (the huge ancestral citrus), so the 'grape' in grapefruit has nothing to do with grapes themselves and everything to do with how the things hang in bunches.
- drug danger
- Blocks enzymes, spiking dozens of medications dangerously
- accidental hybrid
- Born from orange-pomelo cross in Barbados
- misnamed
- Called grape for clustered, grape-like growth
- bitter culprit
- Naringin compound delivers that face-puckering bite
pink grapefruit — texas's official state citrus fruit, first discovered as a natural mutation in barbados in 1693
pomelo — southeast asian citrus fruit that grapefruit descended from, native to malaysia and thailand
oro blanco grapefruit — seedless hybrid developed in california in 1958, sweeter than standard pink or white varieties