How Fruity!
By Riptide
@Riptide (2756)
United States
July 24, 2009 8:34pm CST
I love fresh fruits! I'm especially fond of berries, except for blueberries, I could do without those.
I have recently discovered, that they have come out with fruits I never heard of! They now have a strawberry peach and pluots, a cross between peaches and plums. How on earth did they manage to cross those and could they be considered geneticaly altered fruits?I am very tempted to try them, but am kind of worried about eating something that seems man made when it should be be mother nature made.
Do you like fruits and have you ever encountered these cross bred fruits and what do you think about them?
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@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
25 Jul 09
I found some info, I knew they were hybrid as most stone fruits are these days. Have you seen the UFO or Donut peaches? Nectarines are a hybrid.
All stone fruits are hybrids of the bitter almond tree, and all have been developed by horticulturalists for hundreds of years to withstand certain weather conditions, soils and various interfering pests. And in the last one hundred years or so, farmers have been juggling/gambling with different trees in an attempt to provide Americans with what appears to be one fruit during the course of a season. The peach you eat in May is not the peach you eat in June or July. But the hope is that on each of these hot summer days, you can find, buy and eat a peach.
Here is a link with information.
Brightest blessings,
Mari
All stone fruits are hybrids of the bitter almond tree, and all have been developed by horticulturalists for hundreds of years to withstand certain weather conditions, soils and various interfering pests. And in the last one hundred years or so, farmers have been juggling/gambling with different trees in an attempt to provide Americans with what appears to be one fruit during the course of a season. The peach you eat in May is not the peach you eat in June or July. But the hope is that on each of these hot summer days, you can find, buy and eat a peach.
Here is a link with information.
Brightest blessings,
Mari
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
26 Jul 09
I just bought some huge nectarines last night. I've never seen them look so perfect. Unfortunately that aren't ripe yet so I have to wait to eat them. I sure hope they taste as good as they look. I bought an apple last week and it was absolutely tasteless. I thought it was me but I had a friend try it and she said the same. I should have known better than to buy apples in July, I know they are from last fall....yuck.
I like the fresh fruits more than if they are changed to preserve them such as the fruit can or dry stawberries.I think the tasting of them changed and some vitamins are not equal the fresh fruits.
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
25 Jul 09
I LOVE FRUIT! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!!
I have an apple tree growing in my back yard that was said to produce apples from the Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, and Macintosh varieties. I have had this tree in my yard for 5 summers this year and I have only ever gotten 6-10 pieces of fruit off of it a year and the apples look like macintosh apples but taste tart like granny smiths. So I make fried apple pies out of them and consider it a waste of the $75 I paid for the tree. I should have just purchased the Golden Delicious tree for $20 and called it a day.
But I have never seen or heard of a pluots or a strawberry peach combination. Neither sound appealing to me regardless of how they are made.
I did go black berry picking with my oldest daughter last week and got enough berries to make 2 pies.
I toss sliced strawberries in my waffle batter and blueberries in my pancake batter. I don't like blueberries either but if you add some vanilla extract to the batter its delicious.
Like I said...I love FRUIT! lol
@Riptide (2756)
• United States
25 Jul 09
Yup, I guess you do love fruit LOL.
When I grew up, my parents had all kinds of fruit growing. We had two apple trees, an elderberry tree, quince tree, plum tree, red and black current berry bushes and gooseberry bushes as well as raspberry bushes. We had strawberries and rhubabrb growing in the garden. My dad even tried his hands on a peach tree once, but that didn't go too well LOL.
@rosyevening (270)
• India
26 Jul 09
i too love fresh fruits as it contains the natural freshness which is helpful to us for a healthy system and mind..i love to eat fruits like - bananas, apples,berries,papaiya,guava,peach,pear,oranges,water melon, ground melon, dry fruits like cashewnuts, almonds and many more,,
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
25 Jul 09
I love fruits and would probably try a cross bread. To be honest I do not see the point in altering something that is already perfect in it's own right just as God made them.
@Trinquette (156)
• United States
25 Jul 09
That sounds strange, I would say they were genetically altered. While some fruits can be naturally altered... if they are close enough like blueberries mixing with blackberries... or melons with other types of mellons... but a strawberry peach doesn't sound like it could even be possible... and I'm not sure about a pluto. Yeesh... I prefer natural fruits although Tangelos are great... Tangerine-Orange... but I'm pretty sure they were within the same family geneus.
