Fruit

Many sizes, shapes, colors, textures, and flavors make up the fruit world. It's easy to get caught up in comparing apples to oranges when the subject of fruits comes up, but that would be marginalizing the virtues of each individually.

Many fruits are high in vitamin C, have good fiber content, and are wonderful eaten raw. Some of the most popular juices and smoothies are made from fruit.

The food pyramid suggests that we eat 2 to 4 servings of fruits per day as part of a balanced and healthy diet. The famous adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" hints toward the fact that fruits can help keep the body balanced nutritionally by keeping it regular and providing a good boost to the immune system. Some of the more famous fruits, grapes (containing resveratrol) and acai berry, a superfood containing a high content of antioxidants, may help in the prevention of disease including various types of cancer.


Fruit flavors are an oft-mimicked ingredient contained in beverages, ice cream, candies, and many other confectionary items and food products. Bloggers speaking loops around fruit can be found at sites like thefruitblog and harvestmoonbyhand.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Fruit”

• Cranberry Compote

  
  Right Cuisine Food and Travel — Authority: 128
  Cranberry compote is a perfect addition to any Holiday meal, especially Thanksgiving. Compote is made of whole or pieces of fruit in a sugary syrup. It’s cooked over simmering heat with any number of spices added. It can be served in a large dessert bowl, or individual dessert cups. Regardless of which way, it’s ...
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• Food for Thought

  
  blakehagen.com — Authority: 121
  I’m a proud daddy.  My little girl is 8 months old and is now crawling.  Pretty exciting stuff.  Here she is having a mouthful of something.  Probably bananas.  My wife and I obviously try to take care of the little one as best we can.  That includes feeding her healthy food, making sure she gets her naps, ...
  7 hours ago

• 12 Reasons to eat Apples….

  
  The Raw Divas Blog — Authority: 116
  by Christina Menefee An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away… With all the talk of Superfoods and exotic fruits, we sometimes forget the healing powers of simple, easily accessible foods . Take for instance, the apple. We’ve all heard the saying, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. You know that ...
  9 hours ago

• Afternoon snack: Say no to donuts

  
  LOULOU Editors' Blog — Authority: 136
  For me, eating an energy bar is usually as delicious and delightful as gnawing on a dog biscuit. Still, the “theory” of an energy bar makes sense: lots of nutrients in a two-bite-sized package for convenient munching after yoga, spinning or just for when the afternoon hunger strikes. Only problem: most bars taste ...
  10 hours ago

• Banana Jam

  
  Almond Corner — Authority: 466
  Overripe bananas. It happens again and again and again! Usually, I buy bananas every week. These were in my fruit basket for almost 3 weeks now! I completly forgot about them, and if they wouldnt have been green when I brought them home, probably they must have ended up in the compost. So it was pretty urgent to ...
  11 hours ago

• Our Awesome Planet Ultimate Taste Test 3.0

  
  Ajay's Writings on the Wall — Authority: 463
  It was a weekend of food events and after our cook-off, it was time to taste the specialties of Manila’s best bakers and cooks. Am glad to have been invited to Our Awesome Planet ’s Ultimate Taste Test 3.0, although kinda sad that I missed the first two. The event was simply teeming with culinary discoveries and ...
  12 hours ago

• A Perfect Blend for the Body

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 163
  The acai fruit is a tasteful, fresh, organic fruit that comes with a wealth of antioxidants. In order to prevent damage to the body as well as slow the aging process, antioxidants are needed as part of a regular diet.
  14 hours ago

• An Ode to the Cranberry

  
  adammclane.com — Authority: 128
  We are entering the Thanksgiving season. And with Thanksgiving arrives one of my favorite foods. The Cranberry . Invented in 1924 by Joseph Cran, the cranberry is useful for many things. It is delicious. It is tasty. It is tart. It is good mixed with various other fruits. It floats. It is from heaven. It’s ...
  14 hours ago

• Gooseberry and Ginger Chutney Recipe

  
  Allotment Growing Recipes — Authority: 106
  Recipe for Gooseberry and Ginger Chutney - A dark, spicy chutney that is perfect with cheese - can be used in about a month but keeps for months. This recipe can be scaled up to any quantity to fit your preserving pan. You will want to make lots, its so good.
  14 hours ago

• Fellatio among Fruit Bats

  
  Written on the Wind — Authority: 440
  Viagra for fruit bats?  No, they use fellatio to have better and longer lasting sex.  You learn so many good things from studying the animal kingdom Fellatio among Fruit Bats Bats do it The licking index Holy fellatio Batman! Funky Fruitbats Oral Sex in bats Benefits of blowjobs Boing Boing ...
  15 hours ago

• Upside Down Pear Ginger Cake

  
  butter sugar flour — Authority:
  “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!” That’s me screaming with excitement as I left university this afternoon (an internal scream of course). It was my final exam of the year and I have never looked more forward to the end of semester than I have this year. When I decided to go back to uni part time ...
  16 hours ago

• Stewed Pear with White Fungus

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Stewed Pear soup: A traditional Cantonese fall warm dessert uses to calm throat from coughing and moisturize skin.
  17 hours ago

• Strawberry Shortcake

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Strawberry shortcake is the cake for your birthday!
  17 hours ago

• Pomegranate Apple Bread

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Pomegranate Apple Bread [IMG: http://foodgawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/200686.jpeg]
  17 hours ago

• Relatives perform last rights of Charsadda bomb suicide attack victims

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Islamabad, Nov.11 (ANI): A day after a suicide bomb killed 34 persons, including three women and six children, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province’s (NWFP) Charsadda town, hundreds of people attended the funeral of the victims.People performed the last rights of their near and dear ones.Relatives of the ...
  17 hours ago

• Manual Fruit Tree Pollination -Part 2

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 460
  Ashley Terry (right) and Rachel (wife) This is the second installment of my three-part series on manual pollination in Japan from the upcoming feature, “WWOOF! The Movie”. It reveals the way in which pollen is extracted from the anthers of the apple (or any other fruit) flower through a special grinding ...
  18 hours ago

• The Ultimate NYC Hot Dog Crawl

  
  Endless Simmer - A Food Blog — Authority: 544
  View The Ultimate NYC Hot Dog Crawl in a larger map Wherever you live, you’re surely familiar with the lure of The New York Hot Dog. And if you consume any kind of food media, you’re also probably aware that there’s no longer any reason to limit your NYC hot dog intake to those slimy wieners sold from carts ...
  18 hours ago

• 7-Eleven Wrapping Nature’s Naturally Wrapped Fruit

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 631
  There are so many great things about bananas. In addition to being an important source of fiber, vitamin C, and potassium, they’re naturally wrapped, so companies that sell them don’t have to worry about packaging. That is, unless that company is 7-Eleven.Last month, 7-Eleven tested a new plastic wrap to keep ...
  18 hours ago

• Pumpkin Brioche Apple Tart

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Pumpkin Brioche Apple Tart
  18 hours ago

• Some Sights and Sounds of Regency Britain

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 478
  by Jane Odiwe , guest blogger and author of Willoughby’s Return Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk to you all about my new book. One of the things I enjoy about writing my Austen sequels is the research I have to do for each novel. I love to set each major scene giving clues to how places ...
  19 hours ago

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