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.

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 local 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!

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

National Lemonade Day is August the 20^th. Get some fresh Arizona lemons and celebrate this entire month with some fresh squeezed lemonade. Arizona citrus is one of the state’s five C’s, a good source of vitamin C.