Are seedless oranges a GMO?

My all time favorite fruit is the pluot, a hybrid between a plum and an apricot. Whenever I post a green smoothie recipe using pluots, I inevitably get responses from concerned readers over GMOs. (The same thing happens when I use seedless watermelon or grapes in the green smoothies that I post). read more

Seedless oranges and seedless grapes, for example, are the result of cultivating naturally occurring seedless plants. The navel orange is descended from a seedless orange tree found on a plantation in Brazil in the nineteenth century. read more