How come a grapefruit is called a grapefruit?
The grapefruit really should have been called a different name, since the name has no botanical relationship to grapes. The size of the fruit and the fact that it grew in bunches or in clusters like grapes, prompted a 19th century naturalist to make the new fruit’s name to grapefruit. Heres what it might have been called– Captain Shaddock brought the seeds of the pummelo from the Malay Archipelago to the West Indies in 1693. These seeds produced fruit smaller than the current grapefruit today, which was more like an orange. Since he found the grapefruit, it should be called a shaddock or a pummelo. The shaddock is sometimes used interchangeably with the pummelo. The Detailed History .Top. Some Cool History~ Though Captain Shaddock is given credit for starting the grapefruit production, botanists and growers arent sure whether he should be called the father or the uncle. Some say the grapefruit is a cross between an orange and the pummelo (or shaddock), while others believe that grapef
