8 Easy Ideas And Recipes Using Oranges (2024)

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What can I do with all my oranges? ›

The vitamin C in oranges helps your body in lots of ways: Protects your cells from damage. Helps your body make collagen, a protein that heals wounds and gives you smoother skin. Makes it easier to absorb iron to fight anemia.

If you find yourself with a bounty of our favorite sweet citrus fruits and you run out of orange desserts to make, you can stash your extra oranges in the freezer to enjoy later.

Make Your Own Orange Juice

If you have a juicer, now is the perfect time to use it. You can peel and juice your oranges for fresh orange juice that will last about three days in the refrigerator. Alternatively, you can seal it in an air-tight freezer container and store it for up to 3 months in the freezer.

At room temperature, oranges can last for about a week. In the fridge, meanwhile, they can stay good for about a month. If you don't plan to eat them within about four weeks, consider freezing your oranges — frozen oranges will keep for up to a year.

Can oranges be frozen whole with the skin on? Yes, but there's no point as you'd have to then deal with a frozen orange which would be much harder to peel. Rather peel and freeze the segments 'as is' and when needed it can just be thawed and used.

Oranges are a hybrid of two citrus fruit: a pomelo and a mandarin, with 25% of its genome coming from the pomelo and 75% from the mandarin.

Orange, symbolizing harvest, warmth, and vitality, has rich symbolic meanings in traditional Chinese culture. In ancient times, orange was closely related to yellow, the color of emperors, and was often seen as a symbol of wealth and nobility.

Often they referred to oranges as “golden apples.” Not until they knew them as oranges did they see them as orange. The word itself begins as an ancient Sanskrit word, naranga, possibly derived from an even older Dravidian (another ancient language spoken in what is now southern India) root, naru, meaning fragrant.

Yes, dogs can enjoy orange slices in moderation. It's best that you do not feed them the entirety of an orange, as too much citrus and sugar isn't good for your dog. Only give them one to three pieces or slices of an orange per day.

Why don't oranges need to be refrigerated? ›

To Refrigerate Or Not: Unpacking The Debate

Sunlight and warm temperatures will speed the ripening of oranges, decreasing their shelf life. This means that oranges left on the kitchen counter or in a fruit bowl on your dining table won't last as long as whole, refrigerated oranges.

Yes, you can compost orange peels and entire oranges of all varieties, including navel oranges, valencia oranges, blood oranges, and more. Oranges introduce potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus to your compost pile. They're loaded with the nutrients plants need to thrive and will enrich your final compost medium.

You really don't want to peel one and eat it — it will taste a bit like orange, but it's so sour that it's mostly used for cooking (kind of like calamondins). Bakers especially like to use their juice and rinds due to their high pectin content, which makes fabulous things like marmalades and curds.

Then there are the classic options: freeze lemon or lime juice for homemade lemonade in the summer; create a marmalade or preserves; make a lemon bar (or try a different citrus); or peel, segment and can your citrus.

To prolong the shelf life (up to 3-4 weeks) of citrus fruits, keep them in a bag in the refrigerator. Freezing: Citrus can be frozen in wedges, slices, zest, juice, or whole. By freezing citrus, you can use nearly every part of the fruit and always have it on hand to add to dishes and drinks. Always wash fruit first.

Set the tray in the freezer, uncovered, for an hour. Remove the tray from the freezer and transfer the oranges to a freezer-safe bag. Squeeze the air out of the bag, then seal it. Set the bag in the freezer until the oranges are fully frozen.