For the last few months, our team has been working with fruit experts at the University of California, Riverside to create a Citrus Family Tree. It turns out the oranges, grapefruits, and tangelos we love come from a complicated web of fruit relationships. But they’re all descended from just five types of citrus: the original citrus fruits. I, a lover of
As much as we love winter fruits like navel oranges and pomegranates, it’s always a pleasure to watch the seasons change and the farm-fresh produce available change with them. There’s nothing quite like the syrupy-sweet aroma of a sun-warmed spring strawberry—or the delicate, melt-in-your-mouth texture of the season’s first peach. In this 2025 Spring Fruit Guide, we’ll walk you through
In the fall of 2024, back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton made landfall in Florida and tore through its orchards of fresh citrus fruits. High winds stripped trees of their leaves, knocked oranges to the ground, and snapped branches. At Vero Beach, Florida, a tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton battered Al’s Family Farms. It ripped the second floor off of the
My wife, Julie, and I have an informal competition going on at home: Who can make the kids’ lunches the fastest? In all fairness, it’s not really a competition because Julie always wins. But I like to do things well, so I at least try to beat her. The competition started a year or so ago when I came back
In the modern workplace, more companies are prioritizing sustainability alongside productivity, and employee preferences are spurring them on. A 2023 Deloitte survey found that more than two–thirds of employees prefer to work for environmentally responsible companies. If your office is moving in a greener direction, engaging in Earth Day office activities is a great way to reinforce that commitment. Why
Until 2019, Bryan Flynn thought that most plastic snack packaging was recyclable. Then, he and his wife Kate cofounded the snack company Sun & Swell, and he discovered the truth: Almost every trail mix bag and snack bar wrapper they made would end up in the landfill. “It was kind of a chilling moment for us,” he told The FruitGuys.
Our team at The FruitGuys is chock–full of fruit experts. We can talk your ear off about Ojai Pixie tangerines, wax eloquent about the difference between a mandarin and an orange, and discourse for days on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) versus hybrids. But when we set out to answer the question “Where do citrus fruits come from?” we found ourselves
Wondering how to wow your colleagues at the next office extravaganza? Try using fresh fruit from your FruitGuys box (or the grocery store) to create memorable, enticing fruit platters. They’ll encourage healthy eating in the workplace, and you might even get your “fifteen minutes of fame.” Jeanette Mendez, the production supervisor of The FruitGuys’ Chicago facility, loves cutting and arranging
We’re still a few weeks away from the vernal equinox (the official beginning of spring), but in California, it’s starting to feel like a new season. The hills in San Francisco are finally green again after a rainy winter. My family and I are getting outside more often to enjoy the color and the sunshine. Meanwhile, the fresh fruits of
When The FruitGuys called farmer Emily Ayala of Friend’s Ranches on February 20, her team was gearing up to harvest an enormous crop of Ojai Pixie tangerines. “It’s more than twice as big as last year, which was quite a small crop,” she told us, surveying her orchard while we spoke. She estimated that she and her fellow Pixie growers
When Gael Orr was a little girl in the 1970s, her mother came home from the grocery store in the tiny town of Nunda, New York, with something special: a jar of organic almond butter made by the local company Once Again Nut Butter. Her mother was thrilled with her find, and Gael ate Once Again’s organic almond and peanut
When people find out that I work for a fruit company, their next question is often, “So what are the health benefits of fruit, really?” It’s easy to talk about the physical benefits: Fruit boosts our digestion with fiber, strengthens our immune system with vitamins, and protects our cells from oxidation with antioxidants. But I’ve started to go in a
Marcus Marderosian looks forward to Cara Cara orange season every year. This sweet, low-acid citrus is a type of navel orange, and it typically pops up around Christmas and lingers through spring. You have to hunt for Cara Caras in the grocery store, but Marcus was born into a family of citrus growers in California—so he has easy access to
This week marks twenty-seven years since The FruitGuys—and the concept of corporate fruit delivery—was born. The story goes that my brother, Chris, and his wife, Pia, had recently moved back to San Francisco. It was the height of the dot-com boom. Chris was 28 years old, Pia was pregnant, and he was running faxes (delivering papers from those old-fangled machines
Back in the early ‘90s, there was no such thing as office fruit delivery. Most workers powered up with a steady stream of vending machine candy bars and strong black coffee. But that all changed in 1998. That year, The FruitGuys made its first delivery of farm-fresh fruit to an office in San Francisco. From there, the concept spread across the
A vibrant, varied diet is a cornerstone of cardiovascular health, and fruits play a starring role. Packed with essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber, these natural wonders can significantly impact your heart’s wellbeing. Fortunately, it’s easy to add an assortment of fruits to any diet. When it comes to choosing a fruit that’s great for your heart, you can’t really
Many small-scale farmers want to rebuild their soil, support their local pollinators, or share more environmental education with their communities—but a lack of funding holds them back. That’s where The FruitGuys Community Fund (TFGCF) comes in. Every year, it awards small farm grants to farms and agricultural nonprofits specifically for sustainability projects. 2024: The Biggest Grant Year Yet! In the
I started to understand employee recognition vs. appreciation when I landed my first “real” office job in my early 20s. It came with a cubicle (which I was extremely excited to decorate) and weekly all-hands meetings. One highlight of those meetings was “the horseshoe moment.” The Horseshoe Moment: Recognition or Appreciation? The horseshoe was a plastic trophy shaped like the
My parents are originally from Louisiana, and when they came to visit this past weekend they shared a photograph they’d found among my grandparents’ belongings. The monochrome image captures a moment in time. In it, a pile of harvested sugarcane waits for processing at a mill; behind it stand a lean-to and a dozen Black and white men, women, and
Update (April 7, 2025): The tariff situation has continued to evolve since this blog was published. On April 2, the Trump administration announced a new wave of tariffs on multiple countries. Several of those countries export bananas, which are a key part of our service at The FruitGuys. As of this writing, we don’t plan to raise prices on our
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