PHOTO OF THE DAY: Record-breaking grapefruit

This gigantic grapefruit grew on a tree in the photographer’s backyard.

Photo by A. Le Blanc

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37 Comments

  1. B-dawg
    July 31, 2012

    Once in the supermaket, I saw some the same size. I hesitated from buying it,seeing they were so big and new to me. About a year or two later, I purchased one just to have a taste of it It tasted very sweet, no seeds and not the taste of grapefruit at all. The food separates very easily like corn It took me many days to finish it. They call it chinese grapefruit.(pomelos chinois). Since, I always buy one or two when they came around. I don’t know if it is the same as this one but they look alike. I will only know if I could see the inside.

  2. Justice and Truth
    July 31, 2012

    DNO: This person makes me laugh. I think he is sleeping or does he have a 3-D lense/camera? :lol:

    • Justice and Truth
      July 31, 2012

      This comment was meant for ‘Do not object’. Somehow I pressed the response too quickly prior to sending my original one which appeared where it should not be.

  3. ME R
    July 31, 2012

    DNO, I`VE SEEN THIS SIZE AND BIGGER GRAPEFRUITS WHILE ON VACATION IN ST. KITTS

    • Justice and Truth
      July 31, 2012

      @ Me R

      So what? Did you purchase it and eat it? If not, why did you not?

  4. ann
    July 31, 2012

    I myself was checking is a yam peh that there.

    • Anonymous
      July 31, 2012

      Boyyy this is wa I was checking d same thing!!!!! :)

    • Justice and Truth
      July 31, 2012

      @ Ann

      I thought the same. It looks like a breadfruit. I would love to see and eat a grapefruit as this one.
      I was at the grocery store in Toronto on Friday evening. Someone ahead of me in line had a big breadfruit. When the cashier weighed it per kilo., the cost was approximately $7.00. The male West Indian customer refused to purchase it. I did not purchase one. I told the cashier of the one I saw in the Photo of the Day a few days ago which looked as big as that one. I will purchase one sometime but a smaller one.

      • SHUT UP TRUTH!
        August 2, 2012

        How OLD are you? GOD! You are an annoying hardback!

  5. Nudibranch
    July 30, 2012

    unless you weigh and measure it accurately there is no chance of it making a record, besides.. it’s probably eaten by now.

  6. July 30, 2012

    err admin why arent you putting my photo of the jumping girl?

    tried twice already
    thank you

  7. Troll
    July 30, 2012

    Grapefruit juice to THE WORLD! 8) 8) Imagine if all of them was that size.

    • July 30, 2012

      that cutting man ban bad boy

  8. Mango-Bab
    July 30, 2012

    Looks like a pink grapefruit. DNA, Where is the owner’s back yard? In Goodwill or Cottage? Some years ago I saw a pumpkin at Laudat that weighed 70 lb. I am now enjoying a soursop (courtesy a friend from La Plaine) that weighed 6lb 4 ounces, and was 11 inches long.

    • Mango-Bab
      July 30, 2012

      Meant to write DNO* My bad

  9. Evolved
    July 30, 2012

    This is actually a pomelo – not a grapefruit – it is in the same family however.

  10. Bayside
    July 30, 2012

    put a measuring tape (like a tailor’s tape) around it to show how much it measures around. A ruler to show its width. Then we’ll say……”gigantic grapefruit.”

  11. Do Not Object (DNO)
    July 30, 2012

    Thats not record breaking,i’ve seen bigger grapefruit than this one

    ADMIN: Why didn’t you send a photo? How do we know you not just talking? Where is the evidence?

    • Justice and Truth
      July 31, 2012

      What a huge grapefruit! I have not seen one like that. The soil must be fertile. I wonder, how many glasses of juice could it produce?

  12. Anonymous
    July 30, 2012

    Nice for making grapefruit juice.

  13. Anonymous
    July 30, 2012

    Grapefruit on steriods.[lol]

  14. tie toe
    July 30, 2012

    for dominica its big ,but dont ask me ,but those chinese have some three times as big

    • Observing
      July 30, 2012

      So the Chinese putting growing march in it or something…how else it supposed to get big so?

    • Anonymous
      July 30, 2012

      what the chinese have is not grapefruit

  15. Confused Reader
    July 30, 2012

    I wouldn’t want to be the one that have to squeeze that nuh!

    • Truth
      July 30, 2012

      awa that have more skin, when you peel that you getting a grapefruit the size or a passion-fruit.

      • Lovelie
        July 30, 2012

        lol. Sometimes is real true but plenty fluff for making plenty marmalade.

  16. Nice!
    July 30, 2012

    coooooooooooool!

  17. hhmm
    July 30, 2012

    u just had to do it wee

  18. My take
    July 30, 2012

    This fruit looks more like shaddock(pomelo). A member of the citrus family, used for making shaddock preserve.

    • Dvt
      July 30, 2012

      ok showoff… hey just a joke, I am sure u are right

  19. Irie
    July 30, 2012

    As it big there, Lapo alone it have. I sure when you squeeze dat you hardly getting juice!

  20. Anonymous
    July 30, 2012

    put it on a table nect to something the everyone knows the size and and draw refrence from.From this angle it looks like a normal grapefruit pushed in front the camera

    • Dvt
      July 30, 2012

      put it next to a normal grapefruit

    • Sarah
      July 30, 2012

      LOOK AT THE WOMAN HAND YOU FOOL

      • Anonymous
        July 31, 2012

        you’re obviously the fool. don’t you know anything about photography the OP is right.

  21. TAINTED
    July 30, 2012

    Wow I could use this to make a pitcher of local grapefruit juice with a splash of almond essence. With this summer heat there would be nothing as refreshing!!! Dominica!!! That’s why we are called the nature isle.

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