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🗓️ 14 June 2024
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Why do oranges have peels? Why is the inside of an orange segmented? Why are lemons and limes so sour? Why do lemons have seeds but limes don’t? Why does fruit have juice? How many oranges are in a gallon of juice? How do seedless oranges reproduce? How are oranges available year-round? Why are the fruit and the color both called orange? We’re answering questions about citrus with Fernando Alferez from the University of Florida’s Southwest Florida Research and Education Center.
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0:00.0 | You're going to go. This is, but why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. |
0:25.0 | I'm Jane Lindholm. |
0:26.6 | On this show we take questions from Curious Kids Just Like You, and we find answers. |
0:31.6 | You all are so interested in so many things that we never know where your questions will take us. |
0:37.1 | This time, your curiosity took us on a field trip to Florida |
0:41.0 | so we could get an expert to help us with these kinds of questions. |
0:45.0 | Why do oranges have peals? |
0:48.0 | Why forces are two seeds? |
0:50.0 | How do seedless oranges reproduce? |
0:53.0 | I'm pretty curious about citrus fruits too. |
0:56.0 | So I headed to the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center |
1:00.0 | at the University of Florida to talk with a professor |
1:02.8 | named Fernando Alferres. |
1:05.0 | He's a citrus horticulturist, a plant guy |
1:07.8 | who focuses on citrus fruits, like oranges, |
1:10.8 | lemons, limes, and grapefruits. |
1:13.0 | I work on citrus research, as I like to say, from seed to table. |
1:19.0 | And that means that I have some projects working on citrus seeds. |
1:24.0 | I have projects working on the small citrus trees, |
1:28.0 | how they grow, how they set fruit, |
1:31.0 | and then how we can improve the quality of that fruit. |
1:35.0 | So when you eat that fruit is the best that you can eat. |
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