How to Pick Out Navel Oranges

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to talk about how to choose a ripe orange, navel orange. Navel oranges are the seedless ones. If it doesn't say navel on it, it's not a seedless orange. Most people enjoy the navel oranges because they don't have to worry about the seeds. Not a big difference in taste between the two oranges. Now when you're looking at the oranges, obviously, if it's green on it still, it is not ripe. Still got a little bit of time to wait for that one. You want to stay away from any kind of bruises like that. It may just be on the skin, it may not be that big of a deal, but most people try and stay away from it just in case that it did go all the way through the skin. You want to stay from anything that is mushy like that. Any kind of moist spot, wet spot, at all, you want to stay away from. That one is obviously not good. It's falling apart there. You don't want them too soft. Firm is better on an orange. If it's too soft, it's going to be a little bit juicier and it's just not going to have this crisp taste as a good firm orange. I mean, you don't want it to be rock solid, but you want it to be pretty firm. Another thing to tell on oranges is, if some of the larger ones they're, they're not actually as large as they look. They, the larger ones are going to have a lot thicker skin on them. So the peel is going to be twice as thick as one of the smaller ones that has a very thin skin on it. So you're going to get, either way, you're going to get just about the same amount of orange, unless it's, I mean really big. Another way to tell ripe oranges is heaviness. Grab a couple that you think are ripe, that aren't too soft, a little bit firm still. Grab two of them like this, and whichever one is heavier out of the two is probably going to be the most ripe."