tropical fruit

All About the Lychee

By The FruitGuys on January 28, 2025

The lychee is a lucky fruit. In China, parents tuck them into their children’s beds on Lunar New Year to keep them safe from monsters, along with mandarin oranges, dates, and persimmons. The next …

Filed Under: Produce Glossary Tagged With: California, fresh fruit, tropical fruit

Good Fortune Fruit: Lucky Picks for Lunar New Year

By Jonanna Widner on January 23, 2025

For centuries, fruit has played a central role in Lunar New Year celebrations in China and other Asian countries. According to a recent Time article: Since at least the Qing dynasty, Chinese …

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Take a Bite on the Wild Side With These Unique & Rare Fruits

By Lex Flamm on February 15, 2024

Looking for something new for your team or students to taste as we head toward early spring? There's a whole world of unique and rare fruits out there, just waiting for you to take a bite! They’re …

Filed Under: Fruit Tips Tagged With: farm-to-school program, fresh fruit, seasonal fruit, tropical fruit

Mangosteen

By FruitGuys Staff on January 22, 2013

Mangosteens are truly exotic—and they're nothing like mangoes, despite their name! The only thing they have in common is that both are tropical fruits native to Southeast Asia. They’re popular in …

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Of Bananas

By Chris Mittelstaedt on January 6, 2012

The 1878 edition of A Domestic Cyclopídia of Practical Information, published by Henry Holt & Company, explained to eager readers the uses for the banana: “It is eaten raw, either alone or cut in …

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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 …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Recipes Tagged With: apple, Banana, dessert, fresh fruit, stone fruit, tropical fruit

Passion, I See, is Catching

By Chris Mittelstaedt on October 4, 2010

Mr. Brown is in the kitchen, head down, looking for a spork. Ms. Bright walks into the room and heads to The FruitGuys crate. They smile at one another, nervous to acknowledge the habit they have both …

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The Pronouncements of Passion

By Chris Mittelstaedt on September 24, 2010

A cool fall breeze rustled the leaves outside of Peter's toy-store window. "Pauline," he piped." Pat pitched Paul a prototype policy that primes Pat for promotion." Pauline pulled the penguin puppet …

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Passion Fruit

By FruitGuys Staff on November 23, 2009

Our passion fruit comes from John Koman at White Dove Farms in Santa Paula, CA. John is passionate about his fruit and personally hand-snips it for us from vines he cultivated in his old lemon …

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