Just Realized That a Healthy Diet Needs Healthy Fruit?

Some people just happen to be like Jay Leno. When someone mentions the part that healthy fruit and vegetables play in a wholesome diet, they'll say, "Oh, fruit? I had one once; I seem to remember it was rather good". In case you don't remember how Jay Leno figures in all this, he landed himself in a bit of trouble in 2006 claiming that there was no real need for fruits and vegetables in one's diet - as he hadn't had one of these things since 1969. If you feel out-of-touch with fresh produce, if standing at the produce aisle makes you feel like a vegetarian at a deli counter, here are the tips you will need, making your foray into getting healthy fruits and vegetables into your shopping basket.

Let's start with how you pick out peaches, plums and apricots. Now the three of these are fruits that need to be firm, unbruised and immaculately without blemishes. You also don't want to see any wrinkles. The fruit just need to be taut, plump and quite perfect-looking. Once you bring them home, you can't just eat them right away. Since these fruit happen to get very tender and delicate once they are ripe, supermarkets order them when their kind of unripe. That way, they are tough enough to stand a long haul trip on a truck. Once you get your purchase home, you can place them somewhere nice and safe where they can take their time, usually couple of days, to ripen. When they seem aromatic and tender after a couple of days, you can pop them right into the fridge so that they will keep well.

Raspberries (the fruit that look like miniature bunches of grapes) and blackberries have an inimitable tangy, juicy taste. When you pick these fruit out at the supermarket, look closely to see if there is discoloration or mold growing. You basically want healthy, plump and lustrous-looking fruit. These berries are transported in fully-ripened condition. That means you can begin enjoying them the moment you set foot in your front door coming back from the market. But if you wish to keep them for a couple of days, make sure that you put them in an airy plastic bag. Make sure that you don't wash them before you put them in the fridge.

Picking blueberries, you'll find that the best ones have a rich hue with a white powdery cast on top. What you don't want are fruit that have wrinkles or that are shrunken-looking. Blueberries can keep for a week in the fridge. But you need to protect them with plastic wrap if you don't want them to begin to look shriveled and shrunken like the kind you've learned to avoid at the market.