You drive out the driveway and as if on auto-pilot, navigate to your local grocery store to get your supplies for the week or perhaps the next few days. You bag your vegetables and then your fruit. You then wander the aisles looking for treats and then finally reach the refrigerator section and reach in to get a carton of your favorite grapefruit drink. You stare at it and think about the wonderful weather where these delicious fruits are produced and dream about going there to help at a local orchard if only for a day to help smell the…

If you are looking to experience some of the most unique and juicy Florida oranges available, you have to try the Valencia oranges grown at Indian River, Florida. Indeed, these sweetest of the sweet oranges are available much of the year, from February through October, with the majority crop ripening from May to July. These particularly coveted types of Florida oranges are known the world over for their tantalizingly sweet and unique flavor, and they are a prized addition to any fruit-laden gift basket or even when used to simply fill up a fruit bowl on your dining room table.…

As the holiday season approaches, most of us scramble to find the right presents for our loved ones. Finding the right presents can be a bit of a challenge especially if we want to give something really special to those who are important to us. Yet, with the current economic downturn, not all of us can afford to buy expensive gifts. Fortunately, there are ways to let the special people around us know that we care without spending a lot of money. Instead of buying expensive gifts off the department store racks, you can always make and ship grapefruit baskets…

Grapefruits make a great gift for family and friends. Or you can even order grapefruits for yourself. Perfect times for sending grapefruits are birthdays, anniversaries or holidays. The following places are some great choices when looking for fresh Texas grapefruit. Red Cooper Mission, TexasRed Cooper has been providing fresh, quality citrus for well over 30 years. Red Cooper started out as a small grapefruit farm in South Texas and has since grown to one of the major grapefruit shippers that send grapefruit all over the country. Besides grapefruit, the company also sells grapefruit juice and grapefruit candies. The grapefruits are…

The waistlines of ordinary Americans are growing faster than ever, according to a recent report. Funded by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Foundation, medical researchers compiled some truly shocking statistics. Many have heard that two-thirds of US citizens are now either overweight or obese, but few are aware of just how rapidly we are packing on the pounds. At present, Colorado is the thinnest with an obesity rate of 19.8 percent, well below the national average of 28 percent. But Colorado would have been the nation's fattest state in 1995, only sixteen years ago! How did…

Before the grapefruit came to Texas in the late 19th century it was little more than an exotic novelty fruit. First documented on the island of Barbados in 1750 by a Welsh naturalist, it was named grapefruit because of the way it grew in clusters, like grapes. Years later, it was discovered that the grapefruit is actually a hybrid, a cross between an Indonesian pomelo and a Jamaican orange. And since oranges didn't grow in Barbados at the time, the first grapefruit crops were almost certainly planted in Jamaica. The fruit was brought to Florida by Spanish explorers in the…

What you eat affects you health and if you are not very careful with what you put inside you mouth, you can end in a lot of trouble. Before you ship grapefruit from Texas, you need to know its physical attributes, nutritional value and possible adverse reactions to certain conditions. Note that fruits cost money so you need to what to expect when you ship grapefruit from Texas. Grapefruit vary in terms of appearance, taste and texture. If you want to ship grapefruit from Texas, you should go for the ruby red variety instead of white and pink ones. The…