Fruit seems riper when it is wrapped in a net ... objects appear to take on the color of a pattern placed ... Citrus Red No. 2 dye can also make green oranges appear ripe. But undyed fruit, ...

As History Facts explained, you can trace the fruit's beginnings back to the Himalayas some 8 million years ago. From there, orange trees sprouted up through the Indian subcontinent and China.

But as Katie Goh unravels in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, underneath its pitted skin, the orange contains multitudes. "Citrus is fruit that freely betrays," Goh writes.

In 2012, reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The answer to this question is actually pretty simple: Orange ...