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How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by dylan604 »

RataNova wrote: post #64

This is one of those things I knew on some subconscious level but never really thought about until now. Of course the red mesh makes them look more orange - it's basically grocery store color grading. Honestly kinda love how simple the trick is. No fancy tech, no marketing wizardry - just "put red stuff over orange stuff, profit." Makes me wonder what other dumb little visual hacks are happening around me that I'm no…

> Makes me wonder what other dumb little visual hacks are happening around me that I'm not noticing at all.

If it's marketing, all of it. Movies as well.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

dylan604 wrote: post #100
1970-01-01 wrote: post #98

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Brown and orange are not different colors. For some illogical reason we prefer to think that they are: https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU

Please show me in ROYGBIV the location of "brown".

Sure, it's after red and before yellow.

https://www.quora.com/profile/Stephen-Westland

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by Aloisius »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #77
dmurray wrote: post #26

The best oranges [0] I've had were half green. Fresh from the tree, but still plenty ripe. It's my understanding that oranges for transport to colder countries are picked unripe and ripened in the holds of cargo ships. This ripening process is great at making the skin more orange, and OK at improving the flavour, but nowhere near as good for that as ripening on the tree. So if I saw green patches on my supermarket or…

Some oranges, especially the ones you find in Asia or at Asian fruit stands, can be completely ripe and still completely green. The ones sold in US stores are almost all sour and unripe if they are green (almost always but not always). Different regions in the world 'know about' different citrus fruit (there seem to be a lot of overlap and a lot of non-overlap with fruit), so your mileage may vary. Reddit claims this…

> For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here).

Calamansi limes are grown in California and usually called Calamondin limes. They're typically anywhere from orange to yellow/green when grown here.

> What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon or something.

What country doesn't have what we call a lime? The Key lime, like the Calamansi is is native to the Philippines and available everywhere the Calamansi is. Persian limes are exported nearly everywhere.

Lots of languages don't differentiate between lemons and limes though.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by p0w3n3d »

Funny experiment however you can change outcome of it just by changing white balance on the camera. I'm not sure if the creator is aware of that the camera in his phone is always choosing the white balance, and that he should setup manual mode and have constant light source for this to compare.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by lightedman »

Aloisius wrote: post #56
lightedman wrote: post #54

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"How green an orange is when ripe has to do with the climate they are grown in." Not true for all cultivars. For example, the emerald orange rind always looks like a lime.

I'm not familiar with that one and can't seem to find it online. Do you have a link? Limes will actually turn yellow when ripe. We just pick them early.

https://i.imgur.com/gX7RCKs.jpeg

Sometimes they'll go orange in the rind but most times they stay green like a lime.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by Aloisius »

lightedman wrote: post #105
Aloisius wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not familiar with that one and can't seem to find it online. Do you have a link? Limes will actually turn yellow when ripe. We just pick them early.

https://i.imgur.com/gX7RCKs.jpeg Sometimes they'll go orange in the rind but most times they stay green like a lime.

Those look like calamondins (Calamansi limes).

Just like with oranges, their skin will remain green or mostly green unless grown where it gets cold enough, then their skin will turn yellow then orange then reddish orange. Where I live, calamondins trees have entirely orange fruit when ripe.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by lightedman »

Aloisius wrote: post #106
lightedman wrote: post #105

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https://i.imgur.com/gX7RCKs.jpeg Sometimes they'll go orange in the rind but most times they stay green like a lime.

Those look like calamondins (Calamansi limes). Just like with oranges, their skin will remain green or mostly green unless grown where it gets cold enough, then their skin will turn yellow then orange then reddish orange. Where I live, calamondins trees have entirely orange fruit when ripe.

They look like them but taste much closer to a mandarin!

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by ltbarcly3 »

Aloisius wrote: post #103
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some oranges, especially the ones you find in Asia or at Asian fruit stands, can be completely ripe and still completely green. The ones sold in US stores are almost all sour and unripe if they are green (almost always but not always). Different regions in the world 'know about' different citrus fruit (there seem to be a lot of overlap and a lot of non-overlap with fruit), so your mileage may vary. Reddit claims this…

> For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here). Calamansi limes are grown in California and usually called Calamondin limes. They're typically anywhere from orange to yellow/green when grown here. > What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon…

A Key Lime is only vaguely a lime (they call it a Dayap and I don't think they would consider it a lime at all), that's why we call them 'Key Lime' instead of just lime. I'm putting a fine point on it, but I think when we say 'Lime' we mean something like a Persian Lime. You don't make Persian Lime pie!

As far as I know in the Philippines they don't have a common word to describe a Persian lime, and I never saw one in a store there.

Re: How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Post by Aloisius »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #108
Aloisius wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here). Calamansi limes are grown in California and usually called Calamondin limes. They're typically anywhere from orange to yellow/green when grown here. > What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon…

A Key Lime is only vaguely a lime (they call it a Dayap and I don't think they would consider it a lime at all), that's why we call them 'Key Lime' instead of just lime. I'm putting a fine point on it, but I think when we say 'Lime' we mean something like a Persian Lime. You don't make Persian Lime pie! As far as I know in the Philippines they don't have a common word to describe a Persian lime, and I never saw one i…

Persian limes are just a cross between key limes and lemons. Before Persian limes were popularized in the 20th century, key limes were just called "limes" in the US (and still are in cocktail recipes and latin markets).
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