![]() ![]() Import laws prevented them from being brought over to the US, but branches of the sumo tangerine tree were smuggled into California, and the LA Times writer spent over a decade trying to track down sumo tangerines in the US. It grew to become the most prized citrus in that country, selling for $10 apiece. The sumo tangerine, also called a dekopon, is a hybrid fruit created in a Japanese government lab in the early ’70s. The article was fascinating – turns out the sumo tangerine has had a short but very colorful past! I was digging around online, looking for information about the sumo tangerine, and I came across an Los Angeles Times article written about them last year. It’s the biggest tangerine I’ve ever seen (the size of a small grapefruit), although there’s nothing in that photo that suggests scale (my bad). Yesterday morning, I dug into the new type of produce I picked up the other day. But I really liked the combo of warm veggies and cool lettuce, and even a few minor flavor problems didn’t prevent me from eating the whole thing. And the lemon pepper didn’t go well with the dressing. I wasn’t nuts about the lemon pepper tempeh, even though I usually like lemon pepper anything. It’s my least favorite meat alternative (I prefer seitan and tofurky), but I had never seen the lemon pepper variety before, and thought I’d give it a shot.Īfter I combined the tempeh and veggies with the lettuce, I added a tablespoon of fake (soy) bacon bits, and then a few tablespoons of a new feta and red pepper dressing (fat-free, 15 calories a serving) that I tried for the first time. Tempeh is a vegetarian meat alternative made from fermented soy. The salad was huge and filling.Ī couple of ingredients I forgot to mention above: I added, to the sauteed veggies, a serving of lemon pepper tempeh. I love sauteing (or roasting) cherry tomatoes – they pop in your mouth with you eat them… absolutely delicious. I used my new salad spinning bags to prep some red leaf lettuce, and I added some sauteed vegetables: yellow cherry tomatoes, zucchini, and baby bell peppers. Seeds can grow thanks to our busy California bees that help form the seeds naturally when they cross-pollinate a regular mandarin blossom with a Sumo Citrus tree blossom.Are you eating well this weekend? Staying away from junk food? My eating has been pretty good, and I wanted to share a couple of the things that have ended up on my plate. Not all Sumo Citrus are truly seedless, but our farmers work hard to avoid seeded fruit. The seeds produced from this hand pollination in 1972 resulted in the Shiranuhi which was carefully imported to California in 1998 and the first orchards of Sumo Citrus® were planted by our friendly farmers in 2008. ![]() The pollen from Ponkan was gently brushed into the flowers of the Kiyomi. In our case, a seedless Sumo Citrus was produced by hand crossing the Kiyomi Tangor with the Ponkan Mandarin. It happens naturally, thanks to Mother Nature. Now, you might be thinking, “How is Sumo Citrus considered non-GMO if this fruit is seedless? It must have been genetically modified in a lab to be seedless.” The truth is that seedless fruit has been around for many years but that doesn’t mean it was modified in a laboratory. Sumo Citrus is a non-GMO fruit verified by the non-GMO Project.
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