The grapefruit almost didn't make it in America. What is now one of our largest citrus crops was a bona fide flop when it arrived in Florida in 1823. The exotic island fruit is a hybrid fruit, a cross between an Indonesia pomelo and a Jamaican orange. Unfortunately it didn't…

Image by little blue hen via Flickr If you're thinking about buying a lot of tangerines, you need to know how to store them properly. Whether you want to eat them over the course of the next few days or put them up for later consumption, it's necessary to store…

If you've never tried a Texas navel orange, you have not tried the best of Texas produce. Of course, you may live in another state and still have the good fortune to buy a navel orange from the western part of the United States–not all navel oranges are native to…

Image via Wikipedia From the moment we were old enough to understand things, we've been told to eat our fruits and veggies. Over the years the government got into the act and put forth the idea that we need to have at least five servings a day. If we followed…

Cutting calories is important to losing weight, but it is not just the small number of calories in grapefruit that will help you lose those extra pounds. Grapefruit is an powerhouse of vitamins, minerals, water and fiber, all essential to healthy weight loss. Consumption of grapefruit has been linked to…

The growth of ecommerce has made buying almost anything outside of traditional brick-and-mortar stores possible. In addition to non-perishable items like books and consumer electronics, you can now buy fresh fruit and other groceries online. But why would you want to? If you can find the very same items at…

Who would have ever thought that something from nature would be so confusing? We're not talking about gizmos and gadgets with computer chips, but fruit that grow on trees and has done so since time immemorial. Why then does everyone seem to have a different way of enjoying an apple,…

Image via Wikipedia Grapefruit is part of the citrus family but it hasn't been in circulation for as long as oranges have been. Whereas there are references to oranges dating back 4,000 years, the first time we ever heard about grapefruit was in 1750 when it was referred to as…

At the start of the new millennium, government health officials set what they believed to be modest dietary goals for the American people. The guidelines were designed to combat the growing obesity problem, which some healthcare professionals feared could reach epidemic proportions. A decade later, most Americans are still struggling…