Raspberries

Like little hats, each berry consists of one hundred drupelets -- the tiny subdivisions of raspberries and blackberries. So delicate and delicious, who cares that they are also rich with polyphenol antioxidants.

Gala Apple

Sweet and mild. Somewhat thin skinned. Striped. Originated in New Zealand from momma Golden Delicious and poppa Orange Delicious.

Ataulfo Mango

Shaped like a golden bean, it is sometimes referred to as a Champagne or Manilla mango. This special-season mango evokes a tropical celebration that will send your taste buds so far East your hat will float.

Pixie Tangerine

“The World is very old, but every Spring, it groweth young again, and fairies sing.”(Flower Fairies of the Spring, 1923) These sweet spring time treats pop up to the clarion call that Father Winter has gone back to sleep.

Red D'Anjou Pear

These beautiful and tasty maroon D'Anjou Pears are an old European style pear. They were discovered in Oregon on a sport of the green D'Anjou variety.

Alexander Lucas Pear

"Alexander Lucas Pyrus the Third - you get down from that tree this minutes before I"-- Can you just hear a pear mother chastising her kid? Alexander Lucas pears are usually the biggest ones on the block. Green and juicy - their origins in Belgium, so they are the buttery kind.

Valencia Orange

Citrus waves are rolling in like an endless summer, brah. The primo Valencia is old-school orange. A tangy treat to take down the hall to the dawn patrol. Slice into sections for orange smiles all around – and let the sunshine in!

Fuji Apple

Bred in Japan in the 1930s, the Fuji was grafted from Virginian apple royalty Rawls Jennet and Iowa’s Red Delicious. Extremely popular in Japan and the USA. About the size of a baseball (yakyuu no booru), this apple is sweet and delicious.

Packham Pear

Rumbly, bumpy, bulbous, gibbosic. Packhams' are sweet pears, with character. Each a little askew like that friendly odd fellow at the bus stop. This pear's parentage is Bartlett and Yvedale Saint-Germain. It softens as it ripens.

Red Bartlett Pear

The dear Bartlett pear was originated in Berkshire England by a schoolmaster named Stair. He sold his cuttings to a horticulturist called Williams, who gave this new pear his name. When the pear immigrated to the New World, a nurseryman called Bartlett laid claim to the fruit. So English folk may know this pear as Williams, and Americans as Bartlett. And they say “paaahr”, and we say‚ “pear”.

CCH Citrus, Riverside CA

Ruby Red Grapefruit

Bright with wake-up colors and taste, red grapefruits are an excellent source of vitamin C, lycopene, potassium, and fiber.  Read your medication labels, though - grapefruit can interfere with the enzymes that break down various drugs in the digestive system - including certain calcium channel blockers and cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Black Plum

Black and Blue. There’s a skirmish in the fruit department, the fruits are fighting over who has more antioxicant carotenoids. But it is the USDA that says Black Plums are exceptionally high in an assay called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) edging out blueberries by 15%.

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Cavendish Banana

If you prefer you bananas with pedigree, than the Cavendish is for you. It has peerage - so you may address your banana as Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount - or Baron Banana. But if our banana doesn't come when you call -- then "hey you!" should work. Most bananas we include in our cases are Cavendish bananas.

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