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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”

• 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 ...
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• 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.
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• 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 ...
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• 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.
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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.
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• Strawberry Shortcake

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Strawberry shortcake is the cake for your birthday!
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• Pomegranate Apple Bread

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Pomegranate Apple Bread [IMG: http://foodgawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/200686.jpeg]
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Pumpkin Brioche Apple Tart

  
  foodgawker — Authority: 172
  Pumpkin Brioche Apple Tart
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• 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 ...
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• Brown Rice Rice Pudding

  
  Joy the Baker — Authority: 533
    or should I just call it Brown Rice Pudding?   When I was a little one, I remember lulling myself to sleep by listing off in my brain all of the things that I might like to find in heaven should I find myself there.  I started off with important things like: I’d like to find my little sister Lauren in ...
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• Fruit Fail, Flap Fail

  
  JanasJournal.com — Authority: 414
  Fruit Fail Flap Fail, graphite and watercolor 9x6" When my toilet decided to start saving water by only doing half flushes, a knowledgeable friend took a look and said I needed a new flapper. He showed me how to remove the old one and told me to take it to my wonderful neighborhood hardware store, Pastime Hardware ...
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• Aberystwyth - The Treehouse

  
  Good Food Shops — Authority: 416
  The Treehouse used to be the Victoria Inn (1872-1920), and still has a ships figurehead (carved about 1838) on its corner. Inside its a rather superior organic food shop and restaurant. Theres plenty of good quality fresh produce: The Treehouse 14 Baker Street Aberystwyth SY23 2BJ Tel: 01970 ...
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• Naumes Fruit Gifts is doing something wonderful!

  
  Eighty MPH Mom — Authority: 518
  When I heard of this wonderful program, I just had to share it with you.  Everyone is searching for that perfect holiday gift, and these days many people are ordering gifts online.  If you have been looking for a way to help food banks, this is a wonderful way to give two gifts for the price of one AND make a huge ...
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• apples and crisp fall days

  
  collecting tokens — Authority: 122
  Big bins of apples. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I love the fall . I especially love fall in New England, with the stunning foliage and trips to pumpkin patches and apple orchards. (And you know we’re big fans of Apples in this household .) On Sunday we paid a visit to a local apple orchard that has ...
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