Tutti Fruity

Do you ever get hungry in the middle of the morning before lunch? Do you ever go to the snack machine or find some sort of junk food to snack on during that time? Where we work, junk food is always VERY available. How do you make healthy decisions with temptations like that?

We have started taking a bowl of fruit with us to work for those very instances. I wasn’t a super fan of this at first because fruit does not contain any salt, creamy fillings, cheese, meat (the junk that we always seem to crave).  However, we have learned to appreciate fruit more. It really is a great snack in the middle of the day and we have zero guilt afterwards. We would recommend cutting up some of your favorite fruits and snacking on them as the day goes by.

Our daily fruit snacks we take to work with us.

Some interesting fruit facts...

-Blueberries won’t ripen until they are picked and have more antioxidants than most any other fruit and vegetable.

-There is more fiber in an orange than in most other fruits and vegetables

-British sailors used to be call ‘Limeys’ because they ate citrus to prevent scurvy on long sea voyages

-A single orange seed will likely yield more than one plant

-Peaches were once known as Persian apples

-“You’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving a peach to a friend you liked.

-Some Chinese peaches are flat like a puck.

-Strawberries are not really a fruit nor a berry but an enlarged receptacle of the flower.

-Strawberries and apples are a members of the rose family.

-Strawberries are very high in vitamin C, potassium, and antioxidants.

-Fruit juice takes about 15 minutes for your body to digest whereas it takes 30 minutes for raw fruit.

-The ‘healthiest’ fruit that is readily available to most of us is guava.

-Dangerous ‘oxidants’ are in our bodies. Fruits that contain antioxidants help reduce the harmfulness of these oxidants (i.e. fruits have been known to reduce the risk of cancers).

-Before the invention of canteens, explorers would use watermelons to carry their water

-Banana plants can grow an inch or more during the night.

-There are more than 7,000 different types of apples in the world.

-Kiwi fruit is named for the national bird of New Zealand, the Kiwi bird, because of its brown fuzzy skin.

-Strawberries are the only fruit that has it’s seeds on the outside.

-Pineapples are berries

-Bananas are loaded with potassium. Potassium is important in keeping blood pressure at a healthy level.

-There are more than 100 varieties of bananas. Some have red skin.

-Avocados are commonly used as vegetables. Botanically, they are fruits.

-Avocados contain about 22% fat and a medium sized avocado contains about 300 calories and 30 grams of fat.



Sources: factmonster.com, thefruitpages.com, fruitnutritionfacts.com, gourmetgiftbaskets.com, easyfunschool.com, foodreference