Queen's Favorite Breakfast Fruit 'Ugli' (standard:non fiction, 888 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Apr 23 2011	Views/Reads: 3540/2286	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen of England likes to have 'Ugli' fruit for her breakfast. How the quality of this citrus fruit from Jamaica was improved? Explained in this short narrative.

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is larger than an average Grape fruit; the rind is pale yellow to 

bright yellow wrinkled like Bulldog skin and can be peeled easily; 

slightly pink to colorless flesh inside with abundant large sections 

with juice that is not too sweet, not acidic at all but with a unique 

tang to its taste. The amount of juice is plentiful in several large 

sections like drinking a small coconut. The fruit was given a 

name ‘Ugli' for its appearance and with exclusive trade mark license 

for export. Nobody in the island can export ‘Ugli' fruit except the 

Sharp family. 

“The problem now is that the juice is too watery and not tasty, 

it lost its tang over the years, I am hoping you would correct it,” 

explained Mr. Sharp; on reaching the farm, Mr. Sharp came out of his 

car with help of his driver and stood tall with his hand stick and 

showed the ‘Ugli' fruits hanging from a nearby tree. 

The fruits really looked funny with their highly wrinkled 

skin.  Juggernaut picked up a fruit and removed the peel easily and 

went on to eat only to wet his shirt with juice oozing out. It was 

virtually seedless with plenty segments separated easily with light 

pink to colorless juicy flesh. The juice is rich, sweet, lacks 

bitterness and acidity. It was the most delightful experience to taste 

the strange looking fruit. The juice tastes not like orange, not like 

grape fruit and not like tangerine but a combination all three.  “A 

rare combination of citrus taste in one, only a cross pollination over 

a cross pollination and some natural mutation in nature could only 

produce a citrus variety like ‘Ugli,' fruit thought Juggernaut. 

Juggernaut collected leaf samples from selected ‘Ugli' trees 

known to produce the best and the worst quality fruits and in between 

along with soil samples to bring back to the lab for analysis. After 

carefully studying the analyses results, Juggernaut came out with a 

recommendation of plant nutrient combination to improve the juice 

quality that included foliar application of micro-nutrients for the 

first time. 

After few months, Juggernaut received a phone call from Mr. 

Sharp.  “I thank you for your help, you know my distributor in England 

supply ‘Ugli' fruit to the Royal family in England on a regular basis, 

apparently the Queen likes ‘Ugl'i fruit for breakfast and I understand 

from him that she tasted a bit of more tang in the juice lately and 

liked it, that's a testimony for your good work,” Mr. Sharp was slow in 

talking. Juggernaut was delighted to hear the news, particularly the 

comments from Queen Elizabeth noticing an improvement in the quality 

of ‘Ugli' fruit. Later Juggernaut received a bag full of ‘Ugli' fruits 

with improved taste at his doorsteps, a gift from Mr. Sharp. 

Sometimes, ‘Ugli' fruits are available in supermarkets in US. 

Whenever Juggernaut notices ‘Ugli' on fruit stand, comments of Queen of 

England on breakfast ‘Ugli' as told by Mr. Sharp comes to his mind. 


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