How do oranges get their colour?

Question

How do oranges get their colour?

Answer 1

Take a look at the link below, very interesting. Was found typing 'Why are oranges orange' into Google. Says oranges weren't always orange, they and lemons are green, even when ripe (they are an asian tropical fruit), but when grown in cooler climates like Florida and California, or when gassed, oranges are, well...orange. Oh, and citrus are classed as berries.

Answer 2

god paints each of them

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Oh, please!! It's really simple.

Neither oranges nor any other object has any colour. We perceive the colour by the "colour" of the light it reflects.

It is the composition chemically of the surface does the job. White light is composed of a mixture of radiations of different wavelengths or frequencies, in visible light these range from what we perceive as red (highest frequencies/ shortest wavelength) through to violet.  When it illuminates a surface, some of these wavelengths are absorbed, others are reflected.

So what is reflected to meet our eyes depends on the composition of the surface.

Colour, as such, is simply perceived by our eyes, it does not exist in or on the object.

An orange is perceived as being orange due to the frequencies of light reflected.

Want proof? Remove the light source, what colour can you now see? NONE.

Answer 5

pigments in cells