Eating grapefruit throughout the winter will help you stay healthy throughout the year. During the winter it's easy for people to pick up viruses, colds, and other illnesses that can continue to impair the immune system throughout the year. But eating a grapefruit everyday will give your body the Vitamin…

Once the holidays are over the hardest part of the New Year starts – getting back in shape. After tossing your healthy diet to the wind for six to eight weeks during the winter holidays it can be a real struggle to get back on track. A great way to…

Image via Wikipedia How did a subtropical fruit from the West Indies become the first fruit to receive a U.S. patent? How did it change colors? And why does it call Texas home? In this article we are going to answer all of those questions as we review the interesting…

All grocery stores and supermarkets stock fresh fruit, which means that most Americans have easy access to popular citrus varieties. Why then are online fruits sellers popping up all over the place? Located mostly in the citrus-producing states–Florida, California, Texas, and Arizona–online sellers are filling a gap in the fruit…

Image via Wikipedia A flavonoid is an organic compound found in citrus fruits, like oranges and grapefruits, and vegetables. There are particularly high concentrations of a flavonoid called Naringenin in Texas grapefruit. Why is this important? Well, studies have shown that this particular flavonoid works as an antioxidant and helps…

Image by ladybugbkt via Flickr The first grapefruit crop in Texas was planted in 1893. The state had joined the union only a few decades earlier in 1845 and farmers were desperate for reliable agricultural products. Though cotton and cattle had been sold for years, there was a definite dearth…

Anthropologists inform us that the human species has been about four million years. Scientists have identified more than a dozen distinct species that belonged to the hominoid family. Of course, they all had one thing in common. Give up? They all had to eat to survive. Why did they eat…

If you want to really impress your guests at your holiday parties this year make sure that your bar is stocked with plenty of grapefruits, oranges, lemons and other citrus fruit. Fresh squeezed grapefruit juice is the perfect addition to cocktails because the slightly tart taste of the grapefruit balances…

While some people often give full credit of sweet citrus fruit to oranges, tangerines deserve just as much credit. They delicious and smaller versions of the orange are full of the same flavors that make citrus wonderful. In fact, tangerines also carry the high levels of vitamin C and folic…

Image by kthread via Flickr Honeybells are the perfect fruit to eat to help you get fit and healthy in the new year. Normally after the holiday season when people have been gorging on sweets and rich foods for a month or more they start to make plans to get…