• General

Yes, there is a fruit called ugly (but spelt ‘ugli’), whose name is derived from the unsightly appearance of its rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow skin that is loosely wrapped around the orange pulpy citrus inside. Ugli fruit is a Jamaican tangelo naturally created by hybridizing a grapefruit, an orange and a tangerine! It is usually slightly larger than a grapefruit and the flesh is very juicy with a taste that tends towards the sweet of the tangerine rather than the bitter of the grapefruit. It’s unique taste is generally described as more sour than an orange and less bitter than a tangerine! Fortunately, ugli fruit has another kinder name – the exotic tangelo.

Did you know?

• The Cape Gooseberry is known as the Uchuva in Columbia.
• There is a root vegetable called the Ulluco that is one of the most widely grown and economically important root crops in the Andean region of South America, second only to the potato.