Can anyone tell me what type of fruit this is?

Question

They are in a fruit basket given to me. They have the skin of an orange, and orange type fruit inside, but are shaped and sized like a grape. Also, they are very sour.

Answer 1

They're kumquats. You eat the skin, not the flesh! Sorta opposite, but the skin is sweet. They are great for making marmalade!

Answer 2

They are called kumquats. In appearance the kumquat fruit (generally called simply "kumquat") resembles a miniature oval orange, 3-5 cm long and 2-4 cm wide. Depending on variety, peel color ranges from yellow to red. A Nagami kumquat has an oval shape, while a Marumi kumquat is round.

Kumquat fruit is generally in season from late autumn to mid-winter, and can be found in most food markets with other produce.

Answer 3

It's likely a kumquat.

The kumquat tree is slow-growing, shrubby, compact, 8 to 15 ft tall, the branches light-green.

The fruit is oval-oblong or round, 5/8 to 1 1/2 in (1.6-4 cm) wide; peel is golden-yellow to reddish-orange, with large, conspicuous oil glands, fleshy, thick, tightly clinging, edible, the outer layer spicy, the inner layer sweet; the pulp is scant, in 3 to 6 segments, not very juicy, acid to subacid; contains small, pointed seeds or sometimes none; they are green within.

Answer 4

As mentioned, kumquats, and you can just pop the whole thing in your mouth. I like a couple now and then, but I can't eat dozens.

Answer 5

kumquat eat the skin as well do not peel them ,wash first in cold water and dip in orange liqueur mmm nice.

Answer 6

Rotten grapes

Answer 7

They sound like kumquats. You eat them whole, skin and all. Yum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat

Answer 8

They are kumquats. You can eat them whole. Enjoy!

Answer 9

they're kumquats. the thin-skinned ones taste better if you eat it with the skin because its sweeter.

Answer 10

Shrunken oranges.