However you use them, they will sure to brighten your winter meals. Use them in an orange chicken stir-fry or toss them with cooked bulgur, toasted almonds and citrus vinaigrette. Try them on salads, in smoothies, and salsas. Besides snacking, clementines can be used in recipes calling for oranges, tangerines or mandarin oranges. One clementine is only about 40 calories, and yet it is filled with vitamin C, folate and potassium. The scent of a clementine at the office can linger many cubicles down, making the entire office staff jealous! But adults have proven that this citrus is not just for kids. They're also sweet and seedless so that choking becomes less of a concern. Television commercials for clementines are generally marketed toward children because of their smaller-than-an-orange characteristic and their easy-to-peel nature. Tangerines are also a variety of mandarin oranges. Most canned mandarins are a variety called Satsuma, originally from Japan.

A clementine is a variety of mandarin oranges, but they are not the same as what you buy in a can or fruit cup. Many people think that a clementine is the same as a mandarin orange, but that's not entirely correct. It's juicy, sweet, and serves as the perfect snack. My saving grace during the winter, where calorie-laden foods seem to be everywhere, is citrus fruits.

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