Why are ORANGES, orange?

Answer 1

Citrus fruits comes in every imaginable shape and the colour varies from bright red through orange and yellow to green. We started getting the round orange coloured ones from Spain. Spanish for orange (fruit) is naranja - but the English were never very good at words, so we called both the fruit and the colour orange.

We use the round orange ones, the knobbly sharp tasting yellow ones, the big round yellow ones (with various coloured innards) and occasionally the little bitter green ones. Why we've settled on these rather than the other thousand or so varieties of citrus, I've no idea.

Answer 2

Actually not all oranges are orange.
I was stunned when I was in Belize and all of the oranges had a mostly green skin that was also very thin. There were orange blotches to the skin, but the predominant color was green.

I am guessing that orange growers in the US have worked long and hard to develop varieties that have the great flavor as well as the "shelf appeal" of the bright orange color.

Answer 3

That's the way God made them.

Actually, the oranges that you buy at the grocery store (unless they are organic) have color added to make them more eye appealing.

Answer 4

because Lemons are lemon coloured so Oranges had to be orange lol

Answer 5

Why are banana's yellow? Because thats the way nature intended..

Answer 6

Good question, but if they were another colour would they be called blues or yellows or greens?

Answer 7

Because they couldnt think of a decent name at the time?

Answer 8

Because that's what mother nature decided.

Answer 9

Because otherwise we'd have to call them something else.

Answer 10

could be because they look smaller then the sun