Grapefruit

Legend has it that a certain “Captain Phillip Shaddock” of the East India Company left the seeds of a large, green citrus fruit (otherwise known as a pomelo or Citrus maxima) in Barbados during his global meanderings. Thereafter, the fruit was known as “Shaddock” to the locals of Barbados. In the mid-eighteenth century, the fruit’s modern predecessor, Citrus paradisi, spread beyond Barbados and was found in a more petite variation throughout the Caribbean and Bahamas. Soon after, the juicy citrus made its way to the warm climate of Florida, where it continued to thrive—growing in large clusters of golden orbs and thus earning its common name, “grapefruit.”