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Taste & texture
The coldest storage isn't best for flavor in every mandarin; it depends on the variety.
extension guidance · California research and commercial orchards, United States
Read the evidence
USDA’s account of California experiments reports that W. Murcott Afourer mandarins held at 46°F for three to six weeks, then one week at 68°F, tasted slightly better than fruit held at 32°F or 39°F before the same warm period. Tasters did not discern that difference for Owari under those regimens.
- Fruit tested
- Mandarins in simulated packinghouse/retail storage
- Varieties compared
- W. Murcott Afourer, Owari
- Use studied
- Fresh eating
- Published
- 2014
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- It commonly reaches maturity before developing good rind color.
Field notes
Original source notes
- ripeness cue
- It commonly reaches maturity before developing good rind color.citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
Harvest calendar · Spain
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 10, 11, 12
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- Spain
- source scope
- Spain; IVIA chart accompanying 2013 publication, historical harvest window