Category Archives: Fruit
Planting Through the Low Desert Seasons
By Cricket Aldridge, Urban Farm Lifestyle Editor One of the coolest things about gardening in the Sonoran Desert is that we can grow every month of the year, with the hardest time to grow being July through September, although … Continue reading
Salad for Every Season
By Lori Meszaros, ASU Nutrition Communication Student Arizona’s climate gives you an abundance of produce that can be grown year-round, making it salad time any time of the year! Adding more salads into your weekly meal plan is an … Continue reading
Ripe vs Unripe
By Laura Slatalla, ASU Nutrition Student As fruit ripens, the nutritional composition of it changes too. Enzymes in the fruit start to break down the starch into simpler sugars, so the glycemic index starts to rise. Riper fruits will give … Continue reading
Kittens, Peppers, and Daughters: A Simple Salad
By Nathan Chambers, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student For Christmas last year we got two kittens. If you’ve ever adopted a new pet, you know that your child is going to make you buy things that you simply do … Continue reading
The Japanese Pumpkin
By Kat Brown, Recent Arizona State University Nutrition Student With fall creeping up around the corner, and hopefully double digit temperatures, it’s about to be the season of the pumpkin! Watch out because a new squash is in town. It … Continue reading