Rangpur (fruit) Rangpur (fruit) Rangpur, Citrus" × "limonia or Citrus reticulata" x "medica, sometimes called the rangpur lime, mandarin lime or lemandarin, is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the citron. It is a citrus fruit with a very acidic taste and an orange peel and flesh. Common names for this fruit include rangpur, named after Rangpur, Bangladesh, an area known for this and other citrus fruits. This is where the word originated in the Bengali language. The rangpur is also known in India as "Sylhet lime", "surkh nimboo", "sharbati", and "gandhraj" (meaning 'king of fragrance'). It is known as a
Bergamot orange for grapefruit–drug interactions in which the consumption of the juice affects the metabolism of a variety of pharmaceutical drugs. Used in cosmetics and perfume products, bergamot may cause skin irritation. In the past, psoralen extracted from bergamot oil has been used in tanning accelerators and sunscreens. These substances have been known to be photocarcinogenic since 1959, but they were only banned from sunscreens in 1995. These photocarcinogenic substances were banned years after they had caused many cases of malignant melanoma and deaths. As of 2017, clinical research conducted on bergamot oil has been of poor quality, with no conclusions possible