Pomelo

The pomelo is a citrus fruit, usually a pale green to yellow when ripe, larger than a grapefruit, with sweet flesh and thick spongy rind. Pomelo is a large citrus fruit that is Asian in origin. You might not be familiar with it, but you’ve almost certainly eaten its close relative, the grapefruit, at some point.

The flesh of the pomelo fruit can be green or yellow, while the rind is thick and pale. A pomelo can get very large — as big as a cantaloupe or sometimes slightly bigger. It’s teardrop shaped and tastes much like a grapefruit, but is slightly sweeter.

Pomelo contains quite a few nutrients that would make it a good addition to a healthy diet, including cancer-fighting antioxidants.

One pomelo fruit is packed with several days’ worth of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant and immune system booster. It’s also rich in several other vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, including copper, fiber, and potassium.

Those nutrients and others present in pomelo provide a number of health benefits.