Blood on the menu: New research could make it easier to grow health-promoting blood oranges
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 03:31
in Biology & Nature
For the red pigmentation to develop, blood oranges normally require a period of cold as they ripen. The only place to reliably grow them on a commercial scale is in the Sicilian area of Italy around Mount Etna. Here, the combination of sun and cold/sunny days and warm nights provides ideal growing conditions.