Citron

Citrus medica

fruit

A large oval citrus, smooth or bumpy, almost all thick, fragrant peel, which is candied; one of the few ancestral populations from which most cultivated citrus descend. Corsica has its own. It provides flavanones.

Origin

South Asia, acclimatized around the Mediterranean

Season (United States)

November to January

Preparation

Its peel is eaten candied, from an organic or untreated fruit; the thick, mild white pith is also eaten raw, thinly sliced.

Molecules

FlavanonesIn small amounts, not counted Limonene

Did you know?

Its fingered form is called Buddha's hand; and for Jews it is a ritual fruit, the etrog, which helped spread it around the Mediterranean.