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Apricots: a perfect summer food

Posted: May 27th 2007 3:05PM by Brian White
Filed under: Food and Nutrition

If you are a grape or apple fan, you may know that those fruits (and their skins) are some of the healthiest things you can eat these days. Fruits like tangerines and apricots are a little more exotic, but have immense health benefits as well.

Not only do many fruits -- including apricots -- combat cancer, they are good for helping prevent heart disease as well as helping to prevent cataracts.

In other words, if you're not eating a daily dose of fresh fruit, what are you waiting for? The benefits are simply tremendous. The taste is not bad either! Start a healthy habit this summer and get hooked on apricots.

Tags: apricots, fresh fruits, FreshFruits, summer fruits, SummerFruits

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

5-28-2007 @ 3:59AM

cg said...

Apricots are my favorite summer fruit. They're really easy to freeze as well, just cut them in half and put them on a tray in the freezer. When they're frozen, transfer them to a sealable plastic bag.
For a great smoothie: 1 cup of soymilk, 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt, 2 apricots. Whizz them together. Enjoy!

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