* How to buy the highest-quality fruit available
* How to store fruit properly to ensure lasting freshness
* Peak seasons and nutritional value (including vitamins, minerals, fat, calories)
* Popular varieties of each fruit
* Little-known historical facts
* Places of origin
* Fascinating trivia on all 50 fruits
"Eating fresh fruit contributes to greater health and longevity," says author T.M. Gorman. Born, raised and living on the tropical island of Oahu, Hawaii, she knows fruit first-hand. A diet rich in fresh produce can help lower cholesterol and reduce the chances of developing heart disease. Fruit delivers vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, water-soluble fiber, caretenoids, and other nutrients we need on a daily basis. Dried apricots are one of the best natural sources of Vitamin A…100 grams of figs contain more calcium that a full glass of skim milk…Eating 12 prunes a day has been proven to lower cholesterol levels…Bromelain, an enzyme in fresh pineapples, is a natural anti-inflammatory…Eight strawberries provides more Vitamin C than an orange…And the list continues as science discovers new benefits to eating fruit.
Priced to sell at $9.95, Fruit-The Ripe Pick, published by Vine Publishing of Honolulu, Hawaii, is available at all major on-line bookstores, www.vinepublishing.com, and select bookstores in the U.S. and Canada.