Colwell Thundering Herd Ranch Mandarins are grown in the heart of one of the world’s finest climates for mandarin production.  According to an article on mandarins by Dale McDonald in Furrow Magazine, “There is a very select group of readers out there who know how to get their hands on surely what must be the best mandarin fruit in the world – mountain grown mandarins from Placer County, California”.  The Colwell family mandarin orchard sits on a hillside with a southern exposure which provides the warm days and cool nights which provide the perfect mandarin growing climate which produces the sweet, seedless Owari Satsuma mandarins which makes Placer County the most ideal mandarin producing location in the world.

These mandarins, in addition to their smooth and enticing taste – both as freshly eaten mandarins from the tree and in a variety of flavorful mandarin based recipes, also provide documented health benefits.  In addition to the well known large amounts of vitamin C in mandarins, recent studies of Placer County mandarins have indicated that mandarins are a “Super Citrus” that assist to fight allergies and cold sympthoms.   Placer County mandarins have been found to contain a naturally occurring decongestant according to a US Department of Agriculture on mandarins.  Placer County Mandarins were tested and found to contain six to seven times the amount of synephrine, a naturally occurring decongestant, than mandarins grown in other locations as well as other citrus fruits.  This news about the added health benefits from Placer County mandarins adds even more reasons for buying mandarins directly from the Colwell Thundering Herd Ranch’s mandarin grove.