Mandarins, clementines, and tangerines

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Mandarin is actually the name of a family of citrus fruits that are small to medium, bright orange, easy to peel, and aromatic.

Clementines are a variety of mandarin; they are small, shiny, smooth-skinned, and seedless with juicy flesh that is sweet yet tart.

They often have bright green leaves attached to the stem. The tangerine is also a member of the mandarin family. Its proper botanical name is "Dancy"; on theory is that an entrepreneur attached the exotic-sounding name "tangerine: (derived from Tangier, the city from which mandarins were first exported) to this type of mandarin for marketing purposes, maybe as far back as 1842. Tangerines are small, shiny fruits that are seedy and moderately sweet with skin that is very easy to peel (especially when the tangerine is kept beyond its peak and becomes puffy).

Gourmet Magazine

January 1996

Submitted By DIANE LAZARUS On 12-27-95

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