FRUITS – NECTARS OF THE GODS
Fruits may be even more plentiful than vegetables, are generally sweeter and loaded with antioxidants. Although I am not a vegetabalarian, as our 12 year old son called it when we tried for 15 months a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, and definitely not a vegan, about which I will write in greater detail, a fruit/nut diet would at least be remarkably luscious! With the legumes, peanuts and cashews and a bit of yeast (yeast is an animal!), one could live a healthy life. Certainly one should include at least a couple of servings of fruit daily. I will list here only those reasonably available, many temperate and some subtropical varieties. There are many crosses of some of these varieties, scores more tropical fruits, etc.
- Acai (See MISTICA)
- Apple
- Apricot
- Bilberry
- Blackberry
- Blueberry
- Boysenberry
- Buffaloberry
- Cantaloupe
- Carob
- Cherry
- Chokeberry
- Crabapple
- Cocoa – probably the highest in antioxidants
- Coconut
- Cranberry
- Currant
- Dates
- Figs
- Gooseberry
- Grape
- Grapefruit
- Guava
- Honeydew
- Huckleberry
- June berry
- Key lime
- Kiwi
- Lemon
- Lime
- Lingonberry
- Loganberry
- Lychee
- Mango
- Mayapple
- Mulberry
- Muskmelon
- Nectarine
- Olallieberry – the best wine ever
- Olives
- Orange
- Papaya
- Passion fruit
- Paw paw
- Peach
- Pear
- Persimmon
- Pineapple
- Pomegranate
- Prickly pear
- Quince
- Raspberry
- Rose hip
- Saguaro
- Saskatoon berry – service berry
- Saw palmetto
- Strawberry
- Strawberry guava
- Tamarillo
- Tangerine
- Tangelo
- Watermelon