The fruits are cooked in a sugar syrup of dry white wine and sugar augmented with a cinnamon stick and star anise.

It’s understandable to give yourself a mental pat on the back whenever you add fruit to your plate. After all, eating a plant ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

The small greenish flowers grow on trees in their native Mexico and other warm climates. However, despite fitting all the requirements for a fruit, avocados are more often treated as vegetables in ...

Dried fruit has a reputation for being high in calories and sugar, but experts say it can be just as good for you as fresh. True, dried fruit will have more sugar by weight than the fresh version ...

Dragon fruit—also called pitaya, pitahaya, or strawberry pear—is an oval-shaped tropical fruit. It grows on vining cactus plants of the Hylocereus or Selenicereus genus. Dragon fruit grows to the size ...

Droughts drive Spanish boom in pistachio farming Two decades ago, Miguel Angel Garcia harvested grapes and grains on his farm in central Spain, like his father and grandfather before him. Spanish ...

However, the tree, which is now more than 14 years old and almost 10 feet (3 meters) tall, has neither flowered nor borne fruit. Without these more easily identifiable features, it’s not ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...