The Lower Rio Grande Valley in South Texas was once known as onion country. In fact, when the first grapefruit was shipped from there in 1920, growers only had leftover wooden onion crates to ship ...

Thank John H. Shary, an accidental discovery and bad weather for the luscious red Texas grapefruit now at the peak of its season. It's the produce bargain of the moment. In 1914, Shary, also known as ...

The interconnected, incestuous web of grapefruit lineage commences with a wild fruit indigenous to the Caribbean. A hybrid of the pomelo and orange, it was exceedingly sour, filled with seeds, and ...

'Ruby Red grapefruit" is a phrase deeply instilled in most of us. But guess what? Texas doesn't grow Ruby Reds anymore, according to Eleisha Ensign, executive director of Texasweet Citrus Marketing.

When winter rolls around, there’s one winter citrus fruit I can’t get enough of: ruby red grapefruit. I was first introduced to this sweet grapefruit variety as a child. Every November my grandparents ...

Love Texas grapefruit? Me, too. I’d forgotten the story about how Ruby Red grapefruit came to be until researching one of my favorite winter fruits this week. Apparently, orange growers in Florida ...

Hanging around on trees all about California: grapefruits -- heavy with juice, tartly sweet, beguilingly perfumed. Round and yellow as happy faces or suns, they seem to ripen just as the general ...

This zingy fruit helps put the zest in Christmas. “This is prime time for grapefruit,” said Bob Blakely of the California Citrus Mutual, which represents about 2,000 citrus growers throughout the ...

Typically, my least favorite tastings involve fruit-flavored liquors. In general, the category is filled with headache-inducing levels of high-fructose corn syrup blended with the kind of fruit ...