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Information on the Effects of Freeze Damage to Citrus Fruit
We provide a number of publications that address the effects of freeze on citrus fruit.  Each of these can be downloaded and printed out.

Publications:

Protecting backyard citrus against freeze damage.  ANR publication 8100 Frost protection for citrus and other subtropicals

County Ag Commissioner methods for determining if fruit has been damaged by the freeze.  Freeze Guidelines

Separation and Grading of Freeze-damaged Fruit by Miller et al.  Separation and Grading

Field-Testing Experimental New Methods of Freeze Damage Detection by David Obenland, Mary Lu Arpaia, David Slaughter, Michael McCarthy, Jim Thompson.  This document is a summary of the experiments on using ethanol and UV light to detect freeze damaged fruit in the packinghouse.   New methods for detecting freeze damaged fruit