Fruits Info

Be ready to pay out more at the grocery store for your fruits and vegetables this fall.

A perfect gale has gathered in the Northwest to create higher costs for produce and higher prices for all of us.

Our booming economy is partially to blame for the higher prices you'll pay out for apples, corn and other fresh produce this year.

Perhaps the largest element of that "perfect storm" is short of workers to pick our crops -- a condition that might change the face of Washington produce forever.

South Korea on Monday imposed an import ban on citrus and other fruit from California due to the fact of a noxious insect there, government officials said.

The National Plant Quarantine Service, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, said an area in California’s Rialto, San Bernardino County has been strike by the insect known as Bactrocera dorsalis.

The ban affects citrus fruit, kiwis, grapes and other fruit grown in an 84-square-mile radius of the area where the pest was detected.

NEW YORK - The U.S. government has recently bumped up its recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption, and a recent study suggests it's extremely likely Americans aren't keeping up.

The United States Department of Agriculture had long suggested that everybody to get at least five servings of fruits and veggies daily, but adjusted that requirement to 2 to 6-1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables daily in its new MyPyramid food guide, Dr. Patricia Guenther of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion and colleagues note.

The guidelines state recommended eating by age and sex, and spell out the variety of vegetables people should eat.

To investigate how many people were meeting the new standards -- and the old ones -- Guenther and her team looked at single-day food eating data for 8,070 people participating in the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.