Friday Food Facts

Guess why you always see an egg entree with fruit or juice for breakfast? Eggs are one of the unique food options that contain every essential vitamin, except for C. Adding orange juice to your breakfast solves that issue. Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. Our Arizona-grown apples are considered crisp and sweet because of our sunny days. Don’t forget to add Hickman eggs to that morning meal.

Arizona’s wine grape harvest recently wrapped up. Our state is host to three major wine-grape growing regions. During the holidays, it’s time to enjoy Arizona’s award-winning wines!

and I may celebrate our Arizona climate, especially after the weather begins to cool down. But our Arizona crops in summer love our high temperatures as they make their final growth push before harvest time this fall. Arizona cotton is one example.

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants! But I’d stick to eating Arizona’s quality beef and pork. Both are quality protein meats we raise here in our state.