The Orchard

Oranges and health: what we know and what we won't promise you

Oranges and health without the fairy tales: the six vitamin C statements EU law allows, and the headlines we would rather not repeat to you.

Lemon peel tea — benefits and how to make it with natural lemons from Valencia

Lemon peel is the part that almost everyone throws away. And it's precisely where nearly half the compounds that make lemons interesting are concentrated: vitamin C, flavonoids, essential oils, pec...

Oranges and fibre — how much pectin is in an orange?

The fibre in an orange is not in the juice. It is in the pulp, in those white membranes that most people peel off with their fingers and discard. A mistake. Pectin — the technical name for this so...