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Who discovered the grapefruit?

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In the memoirs of St. Brendan, an Irish monk in the 5th-6th centuries, it says that while in the Caribbean, he fed his crew on the juice of a succulent fruit that yielded a pound of it.

He was probably the first European to see and describe the grapefruit.

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