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Has anyone ever eaten an orange with red flesh?
Yes, this orange with red flesh is blood orange.

Blood orange is a variety of orange, commonly known as red orange. It has dark red blood pulp and juice, which is smaller than ordinary oranges; The epidermis is usually pitted or smooth. Blood orange first appeared in Europe in 1850. Blood orange is red or orange-yellow, with bright red stripes, sweet and juicy, and fragrant. Several varieties are slightly oval, and most blood oranges are seedless, mainly planted in Spain, Italy and North America. China is mainly distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi Ganzhou, Jiangxi Fuzhou and other places, and blood oranges are being planted on a large scale.

Blood orange is named because the color of meat is like blood. It belongs to navel orange in essence, and has developed varieties with various flavors, such as Tulloch, China, Ruby Blood Orange and Rose Blood Orange.