Berrylicious! I know that isn’t a real word, but it sure describes how I feel about berries. Whether it’s blueberries, raspberries, blackberries or strawberries, I just love how delightfully sweet and juicy they taste. I never tire of berries, and I especially love summer-fresh berries.
I went to the shop today to get some strawberries and blackberries, but they didn’t have any, so it was indeed a fruitless trip.
Skip the candy and feed your family yummy high-fiber, low-calorie berries (just 60-85 calories per cup). Berries can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, while reducing oxidative stress. Substituting sugary snacks with berries may also help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Kids don’t care that berries are chock full of phytonutrients and are good for our bodies with vitamins K1 and C and minerals potassium and manganese. They just know they taste berrylicous!
What do you call raspberries playing the guitar?
A jam session!
Berry Fun Facts to Share at the Dinner Table
Berry True: Did you know a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not? Interestingly, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are not considered a true “berry.” A berry is classified as a fruit that has come from one flower with one ovary. Because they don’t come from one ovary, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are not true berries, but are classified as aggregate fruit. This means they are dozens of little fruits all together!
Are Drupelets more than Quadruplets? The little individual fruits found on aggregate fruits, such as the raspberry, are called drupelets. Each drupelet is considered its own little fruit. A raspberry could contain up to 100 little individual fruits!
So Berry Many: There are over 400 different types of berries and even more varieties of the each. Not all are sweet and juicy and some may not be edible! I wonder what berries you have in your own backyard?
Bees Love Berries and Berries Love Bees: The number of drupelets that make up the berry correlates to the number of times a bee has landed on the berry flower to pollinate it. So sweet!
Berry Many For Everyone: Many animals and birds love a berrylicous meal! Blue birds, grouse, turkey, mourning doves, thrushes and more all eat berries. Black bears, deer, foxes, rabbits, skunks, fox squirrels, and chipmunks enjoy the twigs and leaves of the berry plants as well as the fruit.
How did Smoothie’s parents get engaged?
Strawberry confessed to Banana, “We blend well together.”
Berry Hairy: The little hairs in raspberries and strawberries are called styles. Styles protect the fruit but are safe for consumption.
Red Blackberries, Black Raspberries: Unripe blackberries start out red, before they mature to their beautiful deep purple color. It’s worth waiting for them to ripen.
The Berriest: Raspberries come in red, gold, purple and black. Try the gold for the sweetest treat.
Eat ‘Em While You Can: Unlike other fruits, raspberries stop maturing once picked. Make sure you choose plump and juicy berries. Eat them quickly for the best flavor.
Beat A Headache: Strawberries contain natural salicylates, an ingredient found in aspirin. Next time you have a headache, eat a handful of fresh strawberries for relief.
A: Why do elephants wear blue shoes?
B: Why?
A: So they can hide in blueberry bushes.
B: Oh.
A: Have you ever seen an elephant in a blueberry bush?
B: Well, no.
A: Then it works!
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The perfect summer-fresh salad.
Raspberries are the perfect accompaniment for this tasty dish.
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