Orange_Fruit

The fruit I chose to write about is an orange. This is my favorite fruit because they are flavorful, sweet, and juicy. In this paper I will describe to you the five senses of an orange. I will distinguish what an orange looks like, what it tastes like, how it smells, how it feels, and what kinds of sounds it make. An orange is round and shaped like a circle. They get their character and distinctive look from the dimple away from the stem end. The bottom end of the orange resembles a human navel. The color of the orange can vary from just orange to a mixture of orange and yellow, or orange with a hint of green. It has a relatively smooth, but irregular exterior. If you look closely, it has little small bumps on the outside of it. The peeling of the orange can be very thin and easy to peel, or thick. When you peel it, the inner side of the skin, called pith, gets on your hands from the orange layer protecting the fruit. Inside, there is a white layer past the orange layer, which is thicker in some oranges, but thinner on others. When you get to the center, the orange is in slices, and is packed with vitamin C. The orange slices themselves are protected by a layer of soft skin. Most oranges are small to medium sized, with little to no seeds in them. Oranges have a sweet, but sour citric taste to them, depending on the ripeness of it. They are juicy and soft, but with a bumpy texture. The peel of an orange contains about 80%of the real flavor of the fruit. Without the peeling protecting the orange, you wouldn’t get much taste from the actual fruit itself. The orange peel tastes spongy, yet tangy at the same time. When you bite into one, the juice of the orange is released while still offering plenty of pleasurable chewing texture. They have sweet, fresh, fruity, and radiant undertones to the taste of them. Oranges smell very much like citrus fruits. Before you peel them they smell fresh, not old, fermented, or musky. When I smell the flesh of the orange it smells like fresh squeezed orange juice. Some smell like grapefruits, and others have a sour smell to them. The smaller oranges smell just like tangerines before you peel them. The outer skin has a texture that is smooth and rather bumpy. When you hold it in your hand it also, feels very rubbery. The inner fruit consists of a soft, water filled fibrous material surrounded by thicker, drier, and chewier fibers. The orange without the peeling is very soft, and fleshy. When you bite into it the juice starts to drip, and your hands start to get a little sticky. An orange doesn’t have very much sound to it. When you peel an orange it produces a very distinctive sound. Depending on how ripe the fruit is, it gives off a pretty weird crunchy sound. As your peeling it, it makes a ripping noise. When you pull the slices of oranges away from each other it sounds like you’re tearing them. They’re usually quiet, but when you bite into them they make a squish noise in your mouth. In conclusion, the fruit I wrote about is an orange. In this paper I described to you the five senses of an orange. You now know what an orange smells like, how they look, what they feel like, how they sound, and what they taste like. I chose this as my favorite fruit because it is sweet, juicy, and flavorful.