葡萄柚不在圣经中——它是在巴巴多斯发明的

Grapefruit is not in the Bible, and it could not be. It did not exist until the eighteenth century, and it came into being in Barbados. Where grapefruit actually comes from It is a hybrid — a cross between the sweet orange and the pomelo — which arose in the Caribbean and was first described in the eighteenth century. The name comes from the way the fruit hangs in clusters, like grapes. Citrus in general reached the Mediterranean late. The…