Misconception 1: Fruits Are Nutritious, So Eating More Is Not a Problem Because modern agriculture is capable of producing super sweet fruits, some people eat too much without realizing they are doing so. Some dieters even go so far as to replacing a meal with just fruits, hoping to lost weight. However, consuming too much…

Some recipes claim to be seriously simple, but require more work than you had intended to do. Here is the ultimate seriously simple recipe that will get you through these cold winter months. Since this recipe requires only three ingredients and simply baking the fruit mixture, you can whip this up whenever you have the…

Fruit crisps might have been one of the first American desserts recorded. Still, they never seem to go out of style. Early Americans created fruit desserts with some very funny names like pandowdy or buckle. The simpler named fruit crisp is just a mixture of fruit on the bottom and a streusel layer on top….

In Japan, to be alive in autumn is to live on persimmons. The sweet ones, crisp or soft, are everywhere. You’d know an astringent variety at first taste—you would spit it out immediately and run to rinse your mouth. Or, if you were among those fruit magicians privy to the art of making hoshigaki, or…

While their homes and farm fields remain inundated by water, Curtis Sandhu says his family is looking towards rebuilding after a dike failed and devastating flooding hit the prime agricultural area east of Vancouver nearly two weeks ago. The flooding in the Sumas Prairie came little more than four months after a heat wave in…

If you’ve ever been to a church potluck in the Deep South or Midwest, you’re undoubtedly familiar with ambrosia. If you’re unacquainted, it’s a syrupy sweet, quivering mass of canned fruit, non-dairy whipped topping, coconut, and miniature marshmallows, a sort of dessert that teeters toward fruit salad (or vice versa). It often appears at Thanksgiving…

Money may not grow on trees, but golden treasure does. Though they are called green Anjou pears, the bell-shaped fruits glistening in the October morning sun on a 20-foot tree at Kiyokawa Family Orchards, in Oregon’s Hood River Valley, exhibit a topaz sheen that makes them look like foot-sized jewels. “They’re on the sunny side…

Whether served for breakfast or even dessert, this simple dish balances the warm sweetness of roasted pears and honey with creamy yogurt. It can be eaten any time of year, but it feels especially appropriate during autumn and winter when the flavors complement toasty days spent curled up on the couch or celebrating the holidays…

“The sweet, elusive pawpaw has been hiding in plain sight in the eastern and midwestern United States for centuries,” George Washington’s diary entry on March 7, 1785, mentions the pawpaw trees he planted at his Mount Vernon, Virginia home. The pawpaw is said to have been the first president’s favorite fruit. Lewis and Clark wrote of…

Just when local tomatoes start to dwindle at the market, figs arrive in all their green and purple glory, a harbinger of autumn. Figs also have a shorter, smaller harvest in early summer, but the main event comes at the end. The season is still short, so grab these precious fruits while you can. The…