sunkist sticker
(my brain is fried, can't write any intersting things...)Last night I just ate a very sweet Sunkist orange. Now, if you are wondering what is that number printed on the Sunkist sticker, that's the PLU or Price Look-Up code, an agriculture practise in North America, something like the barcode that the cashier scans.
Now, there is extra information behind the number... (behind the number is the skin, and no, not Da Vinci code, stop dreaming!)
3027 - ORANGE: Shamouti
3028 - ORANGE: Delta Seedless, small
3036 - ORANGE: Midknight, small
3107 - ORANGE: Navel, medium
3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
3109 - ORANGE: Seville / Marmalade type
3110 - ORANGE: Navel, Cara / Red
3153 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, medium
3154 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, large
3155 - ORANGE: Midknight, medium
3156 - ORANGE: Midknight, large
3309 - ORANGE: Lima
3310 - ORANGE: Pera
3370 - ORANGE: Maltaise
3371 - ORANGE: Salustiana
3372 - ORANGE: Navelate and other late Navel varieties
3373 - ORANGE: Navelina including Newhall
3374 - ORANGE: Without postharvest treatment
4012 - ORANGE: Navel, large
4013 - ORANGE: Navel, small
4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small
4381 - ORANGE: Blood
4382 - ORANGE: Juice
4383 - ORANGE: Tangelo Minneola
4384 - ORANGE: Navel, small1
4385 - ORANGE: Navel, large1
4386 - ORANGE: Temple, small
4387 - ORANGE: Temple, large
4388 - ORANGE: Valencia, large
If the PLU code is 5 digit, and the first digit is 9, then it is organic. If the first digit is 8, then it is genetically modified
(Disclaimer: this post does not guarantee you sweet oranges!)
crap posted by chillycraps at
9:38 AM
10 Comments:
Wow,you very free huh?(of cos la,3 months holiday le)haha..I gonna print out and bring this to market to buy oranges...kekeke..
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Anonymous, at 6/04/2006 11:17:00 AM
err.. actually you will only find around 3 types in Singapore... Supermarket don't have that many space..
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chillycraps, at 6/04/2006 08:47:00 PM
hmm.. maybe it's a gd idea for me to print out this list and bring to aussie supermarket to look at the oranges.. they have heaps here.. like mountains.. hahaha..
yea.. but well.. if it does guarantee u sweet oranges.. then think farmers will just need to grow one kind of orange liaoz..
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DJ Niwde, at 6/05/2006 05:48:00 AM
but u can quote the code and complain to Sunkist if your oranges ain't sweet.
Oh I remember when I went Australia, the supermaket let you take one fruit and try....
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chillycraps, at 6/05/2006 07:53:00 PM
I totally just used this! My orange looked extremely normal, but when I peeled it, I wasn't sure if it was a blood orange or just really rotten! Turns out it's a Moro Sunkist 4381.
word!
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~ tam., at 1/22/2009 12:27:00 AM
rofl!
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chillycraps, at 1/22/2009 07:38:00 AM
I just had a sunkist orange. It looked really bright orange and good on the outside. But tasted really sour and horrible.
I had a different orange today, not as bright orange as the sunkist orange, but it was much sweeter and better tasting than the sunkist ornages.
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Anonymous, at 2/04/2009 09:26:00 AM
lol, i guess sometimes we do get fooled by brand names :P
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chillycraps, at 2/04/2009 03:15:00 PM
Thank you, now I know what that wierd fruit I ate was. It was 4381, a blood orange....wierd.
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Anonymous, at 2/27/2010 05:24:00 AM
lol ok!
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chillycraps, at 2/27/2010 08:23:00 AM
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