Fruit

Fruit is a food that usually grows on trees, vines and bushes. Most fruit is made up of 80 percent water and it is filled with Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Potassium and fiber. Some of the health benefits of eating fruit are:

• All fruit is 100 percent bad-cholesterol free;
• Fruit helps to stimulates the memory
• The benefits of fruit makes you feel better
• Filled with fiber
• Guava is considered the most healthy of all fruitshttp://www.thefruitpages.com/health.shtml

Some of the popular fruits eaten on a regular basis are oranges, banana, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, pineapple, watermelon and pears. An easy way to enjoy fruit as part of a meal is by making a fruit salad. You can do this by using your favorite fruits, the most popular fruits or you can use exotic fruit such as: kiwi, guava, papaya, acai and mango as the main ingredients. You can choose to use a mixture of any fruit of your choice or the less familiar varieties to create your favorite flavors.http://www.crfg.org/pubs/frtfacts.htmlhttp://wellnessways.aces.illinois.edu/lifestyles/fruitbig.pdf

Fruit can be served raw as a snack, mixed into homemade ice cream, stewed, sliced and fried or baked into pies. Sliced and served peanut butter or eaten whole, fruit is enjoyed by children and adults. Other ways to enjoy fruit are as:

• Fruit salad
• Waldorf salad
• Apple Pie
• Cherry pie
• Fruit tarthttp://www.goodcheapeats.com/search/label/Serving%20Suggestions

The first known written reference to fruit is in the Bible when Eve convinced Adam to eat the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Since then, people have been eating fruit that has been grown in the wild, purchased from grocery stores, or planted in gardens and in groves. Oranges and apricots were grown in China more than 400 years ago. Each country, all over the world has fruit that is grown specifically to that region.http://www.allaboutcreation.org/adam-and-eve.htmhttp://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/fruit&veg.htm

Fruits and vegetables have been growing in the wild for many centuries. When people first began to eat fruit as food, they simply gathered their choices from the wild. For thousands of years, fruit was picked, gathered and eaten in this manner. About 11,000 years ago, people began to plant their own fruit to grow their own plants and use them as a part of their daily diet. The farmers experimented by mixing seeds and this produced new varieties of wild fruits to be enjoyed.http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/fruit&veg.htm

Many years ago, fruit that was found growing in one region of the world was taken by the early explorers and traders to other regions. It is believed that Christopher Columbus took pineapples from South America to Spain in the 1400s aboard his ship. These new fruits were planted and grown by the locals. Today, fruit is shipped and flown all over the world and this allows people to eat and enjoy the new varieties.http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/fruit&veg.htm