

I have counted 114 fruits on the tree this year (last year it only had six, and was the first year it actually even had blooms). The fruit are huge, most bigger than my head.

I just discovered it was not a grapefruit tree, as I thought.

Pomello fruit wiki skin#
Just peel the thick skin,then peel the thin skin and just eat the gorgeous pulp bits of it, so delicious. Pomelo has a very low calorie content and sugar content too it's one of the healthiest fruits. If you are not allowed to eat grapefruit, Pomelo is not good either. To the seller in China, please do not sell pomelos sprayed with cancer causing chemicals to the US. Unless you let you let your house freeze you can grow a pomelo as a houseplant in Montana. Tricia lives in Northern California and is currently Medicine, art, film, history, politics, ethics, and religion. She is especially passionate about reading and writing, although her other interests include Tricia has a Literature degree from Sonoma State University and has been a frequent DelightedCookingĬontributor for many years. Interactions are most common in medications containing carbamazepine, which is used to treat seizures and manic depression, however anyone who is concerned about a possible negative effect with any medication should talk to a medical professional before eating pomelo or drinking its juice. Drug manufacturers in countries where pomelos are not common tend to list only grapefruit as a food to avoid, though the larger Asian relative is usually just as dangerous. The fruit’s relationship to the grapefruit is interesting trivia for most people, but can also have serious medical consequences for anyone taking prescription drugs that have negative interactions with grapefruit.
