Um, fruit. Ha.

Fruit

by Erin Orred

   

Fruit is a very delicious food that is loved by almost all people. Children love it, adults love it, even infants love it. It is delicious at any age.

Fruit is the part of a flowering plant that comes from specific tissues, mainly one or more ovaries. Fruit is one of the ways that plants disperse their seeds. Fruit is accountable for a large fraction of the world’s agriculture, and some even have symbolic meanings. Commonly, the term fruit is generally used to mean fleshy seed structures that come from the plant. Also what many people may not know is that tons of food that we call vegetables, are actually fruit!

Not only does fruit taste good, it has fantastic health benefits. People who eat more fruit have more energy, and they get it without the crash like processed sugar has. It tastes just as good as candy and yet it is still good for you!

There are many different kinds of fruit to choose from. There are citrus, berries, melons, and the main stem fruits like apples, peaches, plums, and pears. Who knew there are so many delicious types of fruit! Best of all, you get to have two to four servings of fruit per day! That’s enough energy to get people through a long time!

Not only is fruit fun to eat, you can also pick it. A lot of fruit grows on trees and doesn’t it feel good to eat something that you hand-picked yourself?

Fruit is grown all over the world and specific places grow specific fruit. Right in my front yard of my house we have an apple tree! In the fall, we went out to the trees and picked some apples from the tree. It was so much fun! After we picked them we decided to dry them so they would last longer and then we could eat them through the winter. It was so fun eating something that we had grown from our own trees!

Not only is fruit so good and delicious by itself, there are many by-products that are made with fruit. In the culinary sense, a fruit is usually any sweet-tasting plant product, especially those associated with seeds. People turn fruit into juices, desserts, breads, smoothies and many other things. Fruits also feed many animals and insects to sustain them for life. So not only does fruit benefit us, it helps living things survive all over the world.

Fruits are probably one of my favorite foods to eat. I can take them on the go, or eat them before a sports event. It is a perfect snack for anytime of the day, any person, any place. Fruit is delicious.