Friday Food Facts

Guess why you always see an egg entree with a fruit or juice? Eggs are one of the unique food options that contain every essential vitamin, except for C. Adding lemon juice to eggs solves that issue, and is a natural sodium replacement. Plus, add juice or fruit to your breakfast meal and you’ll be sure to get your vitamin C.

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

Labels got you confused? Regarding our basic, unprocessed foods, aside from papaya and summer squash, no fruits or vegetables are biotech or GMOs.

Cantaloupe is one of America’s most popular melons. In Arizona, we rank second in the production of these melons. Grown in the spring and fall, they’re a good source of a variety of vitamins and minerals.

In Spain, it’s common to pour chocolate milk over cereal rather than regular milk. Arizona’s dairy industry encourages you to drink chocolate milk as a recovery drink after a workout. And no, chocolate milk does not come from brown cows!

Today in Arizona, we have nearly 200,000 dairy cows producing milk for Arizona families. And, 97% of the milk you get from the dairy case in Arizona grocery stores come from Arizona dairy cows!