APPEARANCE 5 out of 5 stars

Fairly small orange, about 1.5-2 inches across. Orange skin with red blushing. Deep crimson flesh that bleeds dark pink juice.

AROMA 5 out of 5 stars

Sweet and perfumy orange. I find the scent to be completely intoxicating.

TEXTURE 5 out of 5 stars

Insanely juicy with just a couple seeds. Soft, giving flesh.

TASTE 5 out of 5 stars

Orange and raspberry fruit punch with perfect acidic balance.

OVERALL 5 out of 5 stars

This is my very first five star review and when I realized that I went back and actually looked for flaws. I couldn’t find them. I completely love this fruit. It looks good, smells good, tastes good, and the juice! Oh my – the juice! Let’s throw in one more exclamation point for the juice! Wowza. Find these where you live and if you live in San Diego go to the farmer’s market and get them. A-maz-ing.

FRUIT

Blood Orange

VARIETY

Sanguinello

PEAK

Winter

GROWN

Sweet Tree Farms
Dinuba, CA

PURCHASED

Farmer’s Market

NOTES

I am so smitten with the juice of this orange that I made a little slide show to commemorate it. I’m not saying its a spectacular slideshow or anything, but I have watched it over and over because I’m a little obsessive and (I’m not sure if I mentioned this already) I LOVE THIS JUICE.

RECIPES

Tropical Fruit Soup
Blood Orange Granita

APPEARANCE 5 out of 5 stars

This orange is a bit on the small size; orange skin with red blush, deep reddish orange flesh; pink juice! I’ve seen pictures of these where the flesh is a deep ruby color. I am always hoping for that when I cut into one of these, which only adds to my love for them.

AROMA 4 out of 5 stars

Strong orange with hints of cinnamon and clove.

TEXTURE 4 out of 5 stars

Juicy and soft; easy to eat; very few seeds; peeling it is a pain.

TASTE 5 out of 5 stars

Tastes like cloves and raspberries with hints of orange; slightly sour at times but mostly very sweet.

OVERALL 4.5 out of 5 stars

Love, love, love this orange.  This is going to become my annual Christmas stocking stuffer to make the toe look right. It is the perfect size — not too bulgy like a foot with a bunion, but not so small that it looks droopy. Plus kids will love it (as if kids eat fruit on christmas - who am I fooling) because it looks a lot like blood when it is cut and gives bright pink juice.  Oh and did I mention it is crazy delicious? No? Well it is. Buy these.

FRUIT

Blood Orange

VARIETY

Moro

PEAK

Winter

GROWN

Unknown

PURCHASED

Grocery Store

NOTES

So if you will notice above, I wrote that this orange smells like cinnamon and cloves. Generally I hate when critics write that kind of thing because it sounds pretentious and I can never seem to identify these elusive spice notes. However, in this case it smelled STRONGLY of cinnamon and cloves. As I poke around the internet, I notice that no one else describes them this way, which leaves me a little puzzled. All I’m saying is I’m not sure how sketchy my reviews are when I can’t smell cinnamon when I’m supposed to but I smell it strongly when it may not be there. You’ve been warned.

RECIPES

Blood Orange Pots de Creme
Blood Orange Salsa