Your Red Kiwi Guide: How It Compares to Its Colorful Cousins

Your Red Kiwi Guide: How It Compares to Its Colorful Cousins

If you love green and gold kiwis, then you’ll adore their red cousins! These fruits blush reddish-pink in the middle and have a sweet, tropical, candy-like flavor. They’re a new addition to The FruitGuys’ fruit boxes for offices, fresh from our friends at The Flavor Tree Fruit Company. Red kiwis have a unique color inside, but that’s not the only

Continue Reading Ā»
Office workers chatting with drinks and snacks in the background

How to Make Your Workplace More Allergy-Friendly (The Ultimate Guide)

Imagine Clark Kent (Superman’s alter ego) works at your office. Feeling peckish, he heads to the break room to grab a snack. He’s just taking a bite when it hits him—this cookie was baked with kryptonite!Ā  That’s how it feels to have a food allergy in the workplace. And there are a lot of Supermans running around.Ā  Food allergies have

Continue Reading Ā»
Passion fruit halved on a wooden table

The 5 Best Fruits for Protein (and How to Enjoy Them at Work)

Want to sneak a bit more protein into your diet? Consider the humble fruit! While fruits are relatively low in protein compared to options like jerky and nuts, they can still give your intake a boost if you’re strategic about your workday snacking and choose the best fruits for protein. To help you put that plan into action, The FruitGuys

Continue Reading Ā»
Ripe bananas

Going Bananas: Your Complete Ripe Banana Guide

Long before our team at The FruitGuys started wearing banana suits to encourage people to eat more of them in the office, the ā€œ1878 Domestic Cyclopaedia of Practical Informationā€ instructed American consumers on how to peel and eat a ripe banana. Specifically, it gave tips on the famous Cavendish, also known as the sweet banana.Ā Ā  ā€œIt is eaten raw, either

Continue Reading Ā»

Take a Breather to Cool Off

It’s hot out there campers. While here in Northern California, we have been blessed with an unusually-cool summer thus far, I know the rest of the country is beating heat records left and right. This intense heat affects farmers and their crops, and it affects our moods. When it’s so hot you don’t know what to do, when the heat

Continue Reading Ā»
fruitveg_heart

Why You Should Eat Like an Italian

Do you enjoy homemade tomato sauces, olive oil, berries, and salads fresh from the garden? If so, you might already be eating the Mediterranean way. Unlike many other diets, the Mediterranean eating pattern focuses on what you can eat and not what you should limit. Followers of the Mediterranean Diet eat mostly whole, unprocessed foods, including lots of fresh fruits

Continue Reading Ā»
salad-black-beans-feat

Lunch is the Gateway: 9 Lunch Ideas to Improve Your Diet

Breakfast is touted as being the most important meal of the day, but lunch—be it a homemade sandwich or a restaurant meal—gives us the energy for the afternoon’s work as well as an often-needed break from the computer, sales floor, or meetings. Lunch is also a great opportunity to improve your diet, increase nutrition, and maintain a healthy weight. The

Continue Reading Ā»
winter-squash-feat

Orange you Healthy?

The orange of autumn is not only on trees: November is the peak season for winter squash. Although remarkably varied in appearance, winter squashes share an orange-colored flesh rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. They are outstanding sources of vitamin A, plus provide plenty of dietary fiber, potassium, copper, and many B vitamins. Along with other orange vegetables such as

Continue Reading Ā»
apple_picker

Mother Knows Best 2010

My mother-in-law, in her infinite wisdom, always makes sure to let her grandchildren know that peeling fruit is not a good idea. ā€œDon’t be Mr. Peeler, the vitamin stealer,ā€ she tells them. I’ve always liked this sage advice, and now I can give her (and Mother Nature) credit for being well in front of the scientific community on this fact.

Continue Reading Ā»
ponce_cubicle

Ponce Upon A Time. . .

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 Bundt cake that grows wildly here and drinking soda like it was stagnant stump water. Her sugar crash-induced lethargy is so bad that we

Continue Reading Ā»

A Note on Swine Flu

A few customers have asked about Swine Flu, fruit, and our packing procedures here at FruitGuys. According to the CDC, Swine flu is transmitted primarily through human contact, not food; we have always recommended that all fruit and produce (organic or conventional) be thoroughly washed before consumption; none of the fruit in any of our current mixes comes from Mexico;

Continue Reading Ā»

Pumpkins: Not Just for Halloween

By Heidi Lewis While the glowering Mr. Jack O’ Lantern will certainly do some face-melting in the next week or two, inspiring investigation by the budding entomologists in your family, there is plenty more to be done with pumpkins than just turn them into doorstops. Most Halloween-variety carving pumpkins are also edible, but the smaller Sugar Pie varieties provide a

Continue Reading Ā»

Highlight from the November Wellness Letter Wellness Tips: Just a Little Bit of Sugar

As part of your FruitGuys subscription, we provide you and your employees online access to UC Berkeley’s Wellness Letter, the newsletter of nutrition, fitness and self-care. It translates leading-edge research into practical advice for daily living – at home, at work, while exercising, shopping, or cooking. Highlight from the November Wellness Letter Wellness Tips: Just a Little Bit of Sugar

Continue Reading Ā»
Get thoughtful holiday gifts delivered to your employees!

Stay Fruitful!

Get your weekly dose of the latest fruit info and exclusive updates.

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
The FruitGuys logo
FruitGuys-33-scaled