Satsuma Mandarin

Yes.

In one case involving Mikan oranges, reducing weight loss by just 1% could mean roughly 20 million yen more in annual sales.

Oh, that's a significant difference.

And for premium produce, maintaining quality must be important too.

Yes.

For branded Mikan oranges, for example, maintaining their high sugar content until they reach consumers can help protect their brand value.

So this is not just about keeping food looking fresh.

It can have a real economic impact.

I will tell you that some satsumas are more susceptible than others.

Help me out here, LB, and tell me what you think about Do you know what kind of Satsuma this was? Is it...

Do you remember the cultivar name? Sort of the...

Like, was it Armstrong Early, for example? Was it Owari? Was it Brown Select? Do you remember that? I'd be interested to know, because some are more susceptible to this cracking than others.

Okay, great.

Yeah, with the Satsuma, it actually, it only had five fruit on it.

It was the first time I had fruit on it.

It's only been there four years, but the ones, those five, the ones that were facing the sun, they actually burned and fell off a while

And then there were some new ones as well that, you know, there's like this...

Mikan is kind of like a sort of tangerine fruit here.

And there's a popsicle that's...

I hate that I just said popsicle.

That, that...

I'm glad you said that, because even with, like, the cold-tolerant citrus that I have, the Satsuma and the Page, I still bring them in, 'cause they're in containers.

So I still bring them into the greenhouse, because, you know, it...

What? Last year I think it got down to, like, 15 degrees out here.

I mean, of course you do, right? So I'm at the supermarket, and I'm a sucker for exotic flavors in the seltzer department, right? So I see the seltzer, and the flavor is...

Satsuma, S-A-T-S-U-M-A.

And I'm like, oh, that's exotic.

I like exotic.

I do.

You're right.

So anyway, I never think about Googling Satsuma.

I just buy it.

we do.

We're like a fresh Satsuma.

I'm not sure that

we're that fresh.

Full of new segments.

We're an old Satsuma.

Dried

up.

I mean-

... everyone loves them.

Yeah.

I think they need to get right on it.

I think a Satsuma lemonade

would be fun.

A what? A Satsuma lemonade.

Oh, that does sound good.

That's like an