So if you have never ate a grapefruit.. or tasted one.. let me fill you in on some info; 1. it doesn't look like a grape, 2. it doesn't taste like a grape, and 3. it isn't even close to being the size of a grape. So why do we call it a grape fruit?
Grapefruit was first discovered by Europeans in Barbados, and was first called the "forbidden fruit" or Barbados in 1750 by Griffith Hughs. It was also called shaddock and shattck by different people in the eighteenth century until it was finally given the name grapefruit in an 1814 scientific work, Hortus Jamaicanensis, by botanist John Lunan, who was noting how the fruit grows on trees in clustors much like grapes on a vine, unlike most other citrus that doesn't grow in a cluster formation. Lunan was a
Bonus Grape Fruit Facts:
Grape Fruits are a cross between a Pummelo and a Sweet Orange
If you have had an organ transplant you need to avoid eating grapfruit as it interacts negaitvily with several types of drugs.
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