Texas Red Grapefruit_Background

In the 1920's, observant South Texas farmers noticed red grapefruit growing on a pink grapefruit tree. From this first, curious glance grew the Texas citrus grapefruit industry. Through several mutations and years of scientific research, Texas is a leading producer in red grapefruit.

In order to distinguish reds from other varieties, the Texas red grapefruit were marketed under the name "Ruby". The Ruby Red grapefruit was the first grapefruit to be granted a U.S. patent.

Texas red grapefruit is one the sweetest varieties of grapefruit, thanks to years of hard work at the Texas A&M University Citrus Center. Dr. Richard Hensz spent many years in the laboratory working to produce the sweetest, reddest varieties.

Crops of the enhanced grapefruit have been grown since 1970. Today's sweet, red grapefruit that were created at Texas A&M are labeled "Rio Star" or "Ruby-Sweet" grapefruit from Texas.

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