Types of Fruit

Types of Fruit Berries Blueberries Huckleberries Raspberry Strawberry Citrus Grapefruit Lemons Limes Oranges Noncitrus Apples Drying Cherries Grapes Pears Plums Pumpkins What's Hot in Fruit?

Fruits, a dietary staple, and one of the five basic food groups, grow around the world.

Conversations about different types of fruits take many forms. Botanists, for example, discuss fruit based on plant reproductive features. In their words, mustard, grains, nuts, some vegetables and fruits all fall under the fruit category.

More often, types of fruit get divided into citrus (a genus of plants in the family Rutaceae) and noncitrus categories, with berries receiving a separate noncitrus category.

Fruits are a great source of vitamins and natural sugars, and nutritionists discuss fruits in terms of their benefits to human health. The USDA dietary guidelines, for example, recommend eating two cups of fruit each day.

More general conversations about fruit revolve around questions of taste.

Oranges, grapes and apples rank first, second and third respectively as America's favorite fruits. Still, as the video shows, everyone loves cherries.

The links on the right point to articles with pictures and further descriptions of different fruits.

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