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Article: Pickers can be choosers.(Fresh-Fruit Rating.)
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- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Sometimes they look so tempting. The beautifully shaded, perfectly round peach. The smooth, unblemished pear. The shiny, deep-purple plum.
Until you take a bite.
One mouthful of mushy, mealy, flavorless, dry, or rotten fruit and you swear you'll never buy another one.
A sizeable body of research suggests that fruit may help reduce the risk of stroke, heart disease, and cancer. With fruit prices not always so cheap, it's annoying to have it end up in the wastebasket. That's why we've put together a clear, concise guide to picking and storing fruit (see "Pick Your Own," p. 14).
The well-informed fruit-eater also needs to know which fruits ...