It is with no doubt that I can say most people love fruit!!! We especially love it in the summer, when the grocery shelves are bursting with a beautiful array of peaches, plums, nectarines and cherries. Now there are many more fruits available for our consumption. These fruits are known as hybrids. Hybrids don't use genetically modified organism technology. "Hybrids use traditional pollination that can ordinarily occur in nature," explains Leith Gardner of Zaiger's Inc. With names they may be hard to pronounce , hybrids might sound like weird science, but these fruits and their many cousins are more natural and familiar than you might think.
Tanger:A cross between a mandarin and an orange.
Ugli: A hybrid of a grapefruit, orange and tangerine. Add uglis, halved or sectioned, to a salad with avocado, sweet onion, chicory and radicchio.
Jostaberry: A black berry with grape, blueberry and kiwi flavors and packed with vitamin C.
Pluot: A plum and apricot hybrid
Baby Kiwi: The lineage of the baby kiwi traces back to fuzzy kiwifruit, also known as the Chinese gooseberry.
Tayberry: A cross between a red raspberry and blackberry, the tayberry looks like an elongated raspberry with tart flavor.
Limequat: This ripe key lime and kumquat hybrid resembles a miniature oval orange.
Pineberry: A novel cross between white strawberries and cultivated red strawberries that produce a pineapple-flavored berry.
Orangelo: This hybrid, is a cross between a grapefruit and an orange.
