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Fun and Healthy Valentine’s Day Activities for Students

By Lex Flamm on January 23, 2024

Valentine’s Day in the classroom typically features an avalanche of chocolates, conversation hearts, and sugar highs — but you don’t have to join the chaos! With a bit of foresight, you can plan fun …

Filed Under: Health and Fitness Tagged With: California, farm-to-school program, fresh fruit, healthy kids

FruitGuy Noir in: Avoiding the Rabbit Hole

By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 25, 2023

The text came in old school: via Cowbell Morse code. “You’re a little rusty,” my catfish Bicycle mimed to me while I wrote down the incoming message. “Got it,” I quickly flagged back to Bicycle in …

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Those Back-to-Work Butterflies 🏢 🦋

By Chris Mittelstaedt on September 2, 2021

September always makes me feel butterflies of excitement. The change from summer to fall still paints faint memories of me looking for the perfect Trapper Keeper with a velcro flap or of dropping my …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, WorkLife Tagged With: fresh fruit, healthy office

How to Can Perfect Pears

By Pia Hinckle on August 11, 2015

SANTA ROSA, CA—Marie Seppa knows her way around a canner. A spry 92-year-old with bright blue eyes, Marie has been canning since she was a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Oregon in the 1920s. …

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Think Outside the Fruit Bowl

By Rebecca Taggart on June 20, 2014

There is more to fruit than meets the taste buds. The vitamins, phytochemicals, and fruit acids that make fruit so healthy can also be effective ingredients in homemade beauty products, natural …

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Cavendish Banana

By FruitGuys Staff on May 15, 2013

If you prefer your bananas with pedigree, then 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 …

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Champagne Grapes

By FruitGuys Staff on May 15, 2013

Dah-ling, what better way to kick off the morning meeting than with itsy bitsy champagne grapes. Black Corinth grapes, sweetie. Corinth as in Greece, as in Onassis. These grapes are just the cutest …

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Autumn Glory Apple

By FruitGuys Staff on March 12, 2013

Symonym, cinn-man-ym. Cin-a-mon. Whew! Autumn Glory is a new apple from Washington which is a cross between Fuji and Golden Delicious with a hint of cinnamon. They are not GMO. Now can you say …

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Aurora Apple

By The FruitGuys on March 11, 2013

Aurora is a golden apple. Not the one the Greek huntress Atlanta raced Hippomenes for, this golden apple is much easier to find. Just look in your FruitGuys box! …

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Jujube

By The FruitGuys on March 7, 2013

Pronounced “joo-joo-bee,” the jujube is a small, red, round fruit that, when dried, has a consistency and sweetness similar to dried dates. Dried jujubes are high in vitamins and minerals (especially …

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Where Does My Fruit Come From?

By The FruitGuys on October 15, 2012

The FruitGuys buys the best produce we can find from small and local farms whenever possible. Our regional hubs across the country allow us to create local networks of farms and produce wholesalers so …

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How Sweet You Are

By Rebecca Taggart on June 12, 2012

Recently I overheard someone at the gym recommending green apples over red ones because they supposedly contain less sugar. This seemed a strange idea, since the sugar in fruit isn’t like added sugar …

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How to Eat a Fuyu Persimmon

By The FruitGuys on December 15, 2011

Fuyu persimmons are a delightful seasonal fruit. Here's your ultimate guide to enjoying them all autumn long! A Rare Kind of Ripeness Unlike other persimmons, Fuyus are never astringent, so you can …

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Grilled Peaches with Amaretti Cookies

By Tanya Milosevich on August 2, 2011

Recipe courtesy of Tanya Milosevich INGREDIENTS 2–4 peaches, cut in half, stone removed 3 to 4 Amaretti or almond cookies, crumbled ½ cup heavy cream, whipped PREPARATION Grill the …

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Sugar Cane Kebabs

By The FruitGuys on March 14, 2011

Adapted from foodnetwork.com INGREDIENTS 1 sugar cane, washed well and cut into 1/4-inch sticks, tapered to a point on each end to form skewers (leave the skin on—it helps strengthen the …

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Got Fiber? Dietary Fiber Helps Weight Loss, Lowers Cholesterol

By Rebecca Taggart on September 24, 2010

Looking for a miracle food that helps you lose weight, feel full, lowers blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and keeps you regular? Fiber is the answer. Most of us know very little about fiber, beyond …

Filed Under: Health and Fitness Tagged With: apple, berries, fiber, fresh fruit, health benefits, pear, stone fruit

The Season of Cherries

By Chris Mittelstaedt on June 14, 2010

I have many favorite fruits but cherries hold a special place in my heart. Maybe it’s because their harvest period is relatively short; or maybe it’s because they just taste so good—whatever the …

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Best Ever Pear

By The FruitGuys on March 4, 2010

A pear that lives up to its name. The best ever pear ripens and eats similarly to a Bartlett but can have increased sugar content. Outwardly, it may exhibit signs of “russetting,” or spots on the skin …

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Ponce Upon A Time. . .

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 21, 2010

Day 26: The marsh of cubicles has cursed our party. We lost Lenny two days ago to the gurgling fried dough found in the quicksand pits of a budget-planning meeting. Sue has been eating the native …

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Layers of Health and Goggles

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 15, 2010

Lily, my four-year-old niece, who says things like, “Daddy, are you satisfied?” or “Mommy, what does the word "comely" mean?” decided last weekend that when going to swimming lessons one has a duty to …

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