1. Like a — great blood orange!

2. Blood orange juice is tart.

3. Mother hummingbird feeding her baby, nested in a blood orange tree in Simi Valley, California.

4. Indigenous to Italy, the blood orange is an offshoot of the sweet oranges that came from Asia in the 1400s.

5. The largest blood orange is more elongated than the others.

6. Rich and robust, with a hint of peach, blood orange and wood spice.

7. DeMarais has changed the sauce to include bourbon and port and has added blood oranges for zest.

8. One of the most interesting and unusual of the citrus varieties is the blood orange.

9. Anthocyanins are responsible for the red, purple, and blue colors of many fruits. They are water-solubility. Blood orange is the only breed of orange which contain anthocyanins.

10. Rachel Manley, the culinary creative behind The Breakfast Club pop-up brunch in Brixton, whipped up a delightful Blood Orange and Almond yogurt cake just for us.

11. The influence of ultrafiltration on antioxidants and the total antioxidant activity( TAA ) in blood orange juice using the tubular polyvinylidenfluorid(PVDF) membrane was studied in the paper.

12. Powerful, rich nose which opens on aromas of pink grapefruit and blood orange then tropical fruit, especially passion fruit,() elegantly underlined by a refined Sauvignon touch of green broom.

13. Sometimes there is dark coloring on the exterior of the rind as well, depending on the variety of blood orange.