Tangelo
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The tangelo is citrus fruit that is a hybrid of a mandarin orange and a pomelo or a grapefruit. It may have originated in Southeast Asia over 3,500 years ago. The fruits look like good-sized, oblong oranges and have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy, to the point of not providing much meat but producing excellent and plentiful juice.
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Drug interactions
Studies by USDA scientists have so far shown that unlike grapefruit, interactions with statins ( or other drugs ) are not likely with Tangelos, even though it is dervived from a grapefruit crossed with a tangerine. This is apparently because the furanocoumarins in grapefruit are not expressed in Tangelos, nor most other very sweet citrus fruit as well. (source)
References
- Description of tangelo from Fruits of Warm Climates, (1987, ISBN 0961018410)
