Friday, October 24, 2025

Must-Know Hybrid Fruits

Have you ever seen a fruit with a bizarre name on a grocery store shelf? It may be a hybrid fruit! Both farmers and consumers can benefit from hybridized fruits.  

Some hybridized fruits to add to your shopping list are: 

  • - Tangor: cross between mandarin and orange 

  • - Ugli: “ugly” hybrid of grapefruit, orange, and tangerine 

  • - Jostaberry: mix of gooseberry and black currants with flavors of grape, blueberry, and kiwi 

  • - Pluot: Zaiger trademarked plum and apricot hybrid 

  • - Baby Kiwi: berry-sized baby kiwi 

  • - Tayberry: tart-flavored cross between a red raspberry and blackberry 

  • - Limequat: ripe key lime and kumquat hybrid 

  • - Pineberry: pineapple-flavored berry from cross between white strawberries from Southern Europe and cultivated red strawberries 

  • - Orangelo: cross between orange and grapefruit 

 

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