Have you ever wondered why oranges are often sold in those strange red net bags? Well, it’s a sneaky trick used by food producers and supermarkets to fool your senses and (hopefully) make you buy more ...

The plant, also called a Chinese wolfberry, grows sprawlingly into a thorny thicket peppered year-round by small, red-orange berries that look like oblong grapes. “They fruit very young.

In addition to being a fantastic source of vitamin C (containing about 130 percent of the recommended daily amount), the fruit's red pigment, anthocyanin, is an antioxidant known to reduce the ...

Most varieties hold onto the red-orange fruit after the leaves have fallen. Their growth habit is relatively tidy and they can be maintained at a height of about 15 feet with consistent pruning.

The use of orange as the specific description for a colour is thought to have begun in the 1500s when the fruit began to regularly appear on English market stalls.