Nov 01 2007
Orange Juice
I love to squeeze 3 oranges a day, yet I do keep having a flu once in a while, so it’s not a bullit proved secret recipe against flu…
How to buy orange and lemon?
When buying citrus fruit: you go to your local fruit seller and ask if the oranges are sweet. Your orange seller will say "YES OF COURSE"… You come home, squeeze the oranges and suddenly, they are more sour than lemons… What to do? Sour oranges are ideal to add to strawberry smoothies! read more fruit smoothie recipes at : Fruit Smoothie recipes
Valencia Oranges
You can have a first indication whether or not your oranges will be sweet, when you buy Valencia Oranges: Valencia Oranges have not a lot seeds and is a variety of sweet oranges.
What are the numbers on the Valencia Oranges?
In the above pictures we see numbers on the Valencia oranges: on the left the orange got number 3108 and on the right the orange got number 4014. These are the so called PLU numbers: Price Look-Up Codes
Price Look-Up codes or Product Lookup Number, commonly called PLU codes or PLU numbers, are identification numbers. The code is a four-digit number identifying the type of produce, sometimes including the variety.
- Organic produce is denoted by a five-digit number whose first digit is 9;
- an 8 prefix indicates genetically modified food.
In the picture of oranges above:
- 3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
- 4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small
So the numbers tell us that we bought Valencia Oranges (a sweet Orange, but if picked too early, it can still be sour…), and the 3108 orange should be bigger than the 4014 orange. On the picture you see the same size or oranges, yet the 3018 had a thinner skin, so more juice than the 4014 orange.
PLU codes Oranges
3027 - ORANGE: Shamouti
3028 - ORANGE: Delta Seedless, small
3036 - ORANGE: Midknight, small
3107 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, medium
3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
3109 - ORANGE: Seville / Marmalade type
3110 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, Cara / Red
3153 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, medium
3154 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, large
3155 - ORANGE: Midknight, medium
3156 - ORANGE: Midknight, large
3309 - ORANGE: Lima
3310 - ORANGE: Pera
3370 - ORANGE: Maltaise
3371 - ORANGE: Salustiana
3372 - ORANGE: Navelate and other late Navel Oranges varieties
3373 - ORANGE: Navelina including Newhall
3374 - ORANGE: Without postharvest treatment
4012 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large
4013 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small
4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small
4381 - ORANGE: Blood
4382 - ORANGE: Juice
4383 - ORANGE: Tangelo Minneola
4384 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small1
4385 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large1
4386 - ORANGE: Temple, small
4387 - ORANGE: Temple, large
4388 - ORANGE: Valencia, large
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