fruit
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Don't experienced farmers know when their fruit will be ripe, I ask?
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Black mulberry fruit, meanwhile, contains high levels of anthocyanins and other phenolic compounds, as well as polysaccharides.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
New tools that count and analyse fruit on the tree or vine, and predict when crops will ripen, are emerging.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The review found that preparations made from both mulberry leaves and fruit may affect the composition and activity of the gut microbiota.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Fresh fruit was a wonderful and rare treat in wartime.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Higher diesel prices were already pressuring prices for groceries — especially perishables that are trucked to stores, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It provided its proprietary plant varieties to farmers, who would plant and harvest strawberries, blueberries and other fruits sold in Driscoll’s clamshell containers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The first fruits of the £15bn programme were seen last week, with the official unveiling of the first electric Range Rover.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sorbitol is commonly added to "low-calorie" candy and chewing gum, but it also occurs naturally in stone fruits.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
I’m honestly impressed with how many fruits Jared S. can name, since he eats all of his in gummy form.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025
Before long, most cuisines had some sort of fruited breads or cakes that were early versions of the modern fruitcake.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Home to Lincoln Beer Company, patrons can sip on the brewery’s “perfectly pineapple” fruited wheat pints within sight of the building’s towers, reaching nobly into the Southern California skies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Jake looked down on purple waves for fruited sea.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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The orange blobs are mushroom-like "fruiting bodies" while the rest of the fungus is underground.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Taczanowskia waska closely resembles the fruiting body of fungi in the genus Gibellula, which grow on spiders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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