Examples of citrus fruits are oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruits.
Each person in the US eats about 12 ½ pounds of citrus fruit each year.
Citrus fruits are one of the few fruits that ripen after they are picked.
An orange tree can live for over 100 years and a single tree might have over 60,000 flowers, but only 1% of those flowers will turn into a fruit.
Grapefruits got their name because they grow in clusters, like grapes.
If you have just ½ of a grapefruit, you can get 100% of your daily vitamin C requirement. That's one powerful fruit!
Remember to eat your citrus in its whole form, rather than as juice, so you can get good fiber into your body!
Root vegetables include:
Root vegetables have strange names like corms, rhizomes and tubers. To be a root vegetable, it has to pass a test:
Carrots are native to Europe and South Asia. Did you know that the normal color of a carrot is purple? The orange carrot that we know and love comes from the vegetable changing over time, and as it becomes bright orange, it develops a lot of healthy beta carotene!
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