Day 66: In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two....

...Columbus sailed the ocean blue!

And just a year later, on his second voyage to the Pacific Islands,
Christopher Columbus brought with him the seeds of
o-r-a-n-g-e-s
and made sure they were planted in Haiti and the Caribbean.

Learn more about these delicious delights!

Random Facts about Oranges:

• If you drink a glass of calcium fortified orange juice, it will be absorbed by the body better than calcium in a glass of milk.
• More orange trees are killed by lighting than plant diseases.
• Even though oranges were introduced in the United States only about a 125 years ago, they have been grown in southern China and India for thousands of years.
• Marmalades are made of bitter oranges that cannot be eaten raw.
• Oranges are orange due to cold temperatures where they grow. However, in the tropical countries where oranges grow they have a green to green yellow color. (source: Orange Fruit Facts)

Day 66. Dollar 66. Pound 66. Orange you glad you now know these facts? This fruit is very a-peeling, and is always welcome inside the doors of Metro CareRing! (Click here for donation information.)