I ate some fresh oranges off the tree in California several years ago when me and some friends went to the world ag expo,best orange I’d ever eaten.
Never been to Florida but your statement about most of them being juice oranges is what I was told also,back in 2011 we were very dry and I was bringing corn in here on rail from Midwest and I got a rail car of citrus pulp pellets out of Florida for some roughage,cottonseed hulls were scarce and expensive and there was plenty of orange grapefruit and lemon peelings fit them to make pellets out of.Smelled good too.