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Good point. If things exist in different "ontological categories" trying to evaluate which of them is "better" makes little sense. But apples and oranges are both good food, so we can compare how much calories you get forjm them, or vitamins etc.
I think oranges and citrus generally is a weird variable because it’s hard to grow outside of tropical climates or advanced techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery > In England, John Parkinson introduced the orangery to the readers of his Paradisus in Sole (1628), under the heading "Oranges". The trees might be planted against a brick wall and enclosed in winter with a plank shed covered with "cerecloth",…
> 'Hesperides' by Giovanni Battista Ferrari published in Rome,1646. Its full title meaning 'Hesperides, or, On the cultivation and use of the golden apple' (golden apples referring to citrus fruit)