If you’ve never seen a fresh mandarin, you’re in for a surprise - the rind is a brilliant emerald green and the flesh is a beautiful deep orange. The mandarin orange itself originated in the Far East and has been around since 2000 B.C. More: NJ restaurants: Where to go for comfort food More: 15 Jersey-made gifts for the foodies on your list More: Great Jersey Shore Bars To Watch Football
Over the past few years they’ve become increasingly popular and as their demand has gone up, so has their price. At that time, a lot of oranges, including clementines, were imported from Europe, and clementines started to catch on. came about more recently, in the 1980s and 1990s, after a devastating freeze in Florida made domestic oranges scarce and expensive. Clementines have been available in Europe for many years, but the market for them in the U.S. Most people think of clementines as small tangerines, but they’re a different variety entirely and have their own distinctive taste. Imported from Spain, Morocco, and other parts of North Africa, clementines are a cross between a sweet orange and a Chinese mandarin. Whatever their origin, the fact is that clementines found their natural climate and soil in Spain, where they developed their particular aroma, sweetness and taste.Ĭlementines are the tiniest of the mandarins.
Others, like Japanese botanist Tanaka, believe that clementines must have originated in Asia and found their way to the Mediterranean via human migration.
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