Friday Food Facts

Guess why you always see an egg entree with a 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. Arizona apples are considered some of the crispest and sweetest 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!

Today’s agriculture tools, seeds and methods, and the men and women who use them, make our food system healthier, safer, more affordable and more abundant than it has ever been. For example, we can grow more than six and a half times more Arizona cotton per acre than we did 100 years ago.

Arizona farmers grow more food and fiber with less – less land, less labor, less water, less soil erosion, less energy use, less greenhouse gas emissions – but with more efficiency and safety. Our Kerr Family Dairy is just one example of this.