Red Beauty, Sweet Heart, Tiger Tangerine – no, these are not the names of folk heroes but the varieties of mandarin oranges available this Chinese New Year.

Tangerine peels can only be called “chenpi” (aged peels, which are scientifically known as Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium) if they’ve been sun-dried every fall and winter, consecutively, for at least ...

(For the rest of the year, they are carefully stored away.) There are four major types of peels: green tangerine peels (harvested before ripening); light/second red tangerine peels (harvested in ...

The tangerine is a type of orange. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name Citrus tangerina or Citrus x tangerina, or treated as a variety of Citrus ...