RUBY RED. REAL RED. RIO STAR. RUBY SWEET. RIO RED. South Texas grapefruit comes in a variety of evocative—some even trademarked—names. But the characteristics they all have in common is one of the first things I noticed when I moved to Texas almost two decades ago: their distinctive color and taste, unlike any grapefruit I’d encountered back home in Mexico.
Round and luscious and bright on the outside, plump and riveting and cardinal on the inside, grapefruits