A clementine is a hybrid of a tangerine and a Seville orange that has several advantages over a traditional orange, including being easier to peel and having a complete lack of seeds. Best of all, clementines also have fewer calories.
Calories
According to FatSecret.com, an average clementine contains 35 calories in the entire fruit. In comparison, the average orange has 62 calories.
Nutrition
Each clementine fruit provides 0.11 g of fat, 1 mg of sodium, 131 mg of potassium, 8.89 g of carbohydrates, 1.3 g of dietary fiber, 6.79 g of sugar and 0.63 g of protein. Clementines are naturally cholesterol free and contain no saturated fat. A single clementine also delivers 60 percent of the daily recommended value of vitamin C.
History
The precise origins of the clementine remain a mystery, although many credit Algerian monk Father Clement Rodier with discovering the first clementine in his orphanage garden. However, others believe the fruit originated centuries earlier in China.
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