If you find yourself in a cooking rut after the holidays adding Honeybells to your cooking will help spice up your dishes and breathe new life into dishes that you’ve made so many times you’re tired of cooking them. Often home chefs pull out all the stops during the holiday season cooking elaborate meals and desserts full of foods that are traditional to the holiday season. When the holidays are over those home chefs and homemakers fall back on their usual dishes to feed themselves and their families and those dishes can seem a little boring and bland after weeks…
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When you give fruit as a gift or buy fruit to give your family of course you want to give the best fruit. Indian River citrus fruit is the best fruit that you can buy so when you want to give a delicious gift for a birthday, anniversary, graduation or other occasion and you want to give the best you should always give Indian River citrus fruit. Indian River citrus fruit is the best you can get because of where it’s grown. The Indian River district in Florida is the best area in the entire country for growing citrus fruit.…
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After the holidays most people are forced to deal with the holiday pounds that they put on gorging on holiday treats like cookies, rich cakes, and fat and calorie laden drinks like eggnog. Everyone indulges a little during the holidays since it’s only once a year but once the holiday season passes it’s time to get serious about losing those pounds so that next year you aren’t adding a few more pounds to the same pounds you gained this year. But getting back to eating healthy and exercising after weeks of indulging and skipping the gym can be tough. Your…
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Like most industries, the fruit trade in America grew due to new technologies. It began in the late 15th century when Spanish explorers planted citrus fruit seeds just outside of St. Augustine, Florida. Lemons, limes, and oranges soon became popular agricultural products in the Sunshine State. But it wasn’t until the railroad came to Florida in the middle of the 19th century that a commercial industry was born. The state is now responsible for over seventy percent of the nation’s citrus fruit. They are the world’s leading supplier of grapefruit. Of course, their largest crop is the orange. Florida produces…
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There are a variety of different ways you can use navel oranges. Anything you can make with ordinary oranges will work better with navel oranges since they are seedless, juicy and naturally sweet. One of the more common uses for navel oranges is Ambrosia Salad. The ingredients are as follows: * 6 navel oranges * 1/4 cup powdered sugar * 2 cups grated coconut * 1/3 cup orange juice * 6 maraschino cherries While some cooks might prefer to simply mix all the ingredients together, you should actually peel the navel oranges into slices, place one-third of them into a…
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Can you invent fruit? Believe it or not, farmers and researchers at the USDA Horticultural Research Station in Orlando did just that in 1931, when they released the hybrid fruit the world would come to know as the Honeybell orange. What’s In An Orange Name? The Honeybell’s official name is the Minneola orange, named for the small town near the research station. The Honeybell name comes from the fruit’s unusual shape, which includes a small curve at the bottom that researchers believed was vaguely bell-shaped. The name “Honeybell” was soon used to market the new fruit to tourists and locals…
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So you’ve decided to try grapefruit again? Maybe you’ve held past, not-so-happy memories of it: Your mother placing in front of you a halved white grapefruit and a spoon, and as you took one bite (while squirting yourself in the eye), you decided the pale, sour fruit was just not for you? Well, welcome to the better days of citrus! Now red grapefruit is on the menu; happy days are here again! Most of us know grapefruit is good for you – all grapefruit, the white (also known as “blond”), the pink and the red grapefruit. It’s so loaded with…
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Eating Honeybells by themselves is always a treat, but since Honeybell tangelos are only in season for a short while and need to be enjoyed during a very short period of time, some people can tire of eating Honeybells by themselves. Luckily there are many ways to enjoy Honeybells besides eating them plain. Used in smoothies, desserts, sauces, and other dishes, Honeybells add a unique and sweet flavor to your favorite dishes. Honeybells also make great jams and preserves, which can be enjoyed throughout the year. Here are some fun and unusual ways to use Honeybell tangelos during the month…
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If you want to be healthier and get more fit you need to eat the best quality food, and Indian River fruit is the best quality fruit you can buy. Investing in delicious and nutritious Indian River fruit is the best way to be sure that the food you’re eating hasn’t been contaminated with chemicals and still has the nutrition you need to be healthy. When you buy fruit from the supermarket often it’s been sitting in a truck for a week or more on the way to the store. It’s sprayed with chemicals and preservatives to make it look…
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If you want to get great customer service you should be buying fruit from an independent fruit company. Small, family owned citrus groves not only produce the best tasting fruit they also put the most emphasis on customer service of any fruit company. When you don’t know which gift is the perfect gift to send, when you have questions about when Honeybells will be in season this year, or when you need help placing an order an independent fruit company will always be happy to help. Bigger corporate fruit companies just can’t provide the kind of one – on- one…