🍅  My favorite fruit this time of year is the persimmon!  And my favorite way to eat the Fuyu type is sliced up in a salad, although lately, I've been slicing them up to snack on.  They're delicious and full of health benefits!

🍒  Cranberries decreases inflammation, improve immune function, prevent and treat urinary tract infections, reduces the risk of heart disease, benefits the digestive system, and may help prevent cancer.

🍒  Cranberries have one of the highest concentrations of antioxidants of any fruit.

🍏 Apples are members of the rose family.  They're most likely native to the Caucasus Mountains of Western Asia and maybe to Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey.  Carbonized apples have been dated back to 6500 BC in Anatolia.

🍎Apples came to Britain with the Roman Empire and made it to America in 1623, brought by William Blackstone to Massachusetts.

🍏  They are now commonly eaten with the Dutch eating the most, the French next, consuming most of theirs in the form of cider.  Belgians and Italians are next, with the US coming in last only averaging one apple per week.  We bring up the average in my family!!!

🌿 Licorice is a member of the pea family. It grows wild in southern Europe and Asia. It’s mostly grown for it’s rhizomes and roots.

🌿 Licorice is fifty times sweeter than sugar, but generally not used as a sweetener because of it’s strong flavor.

🌿 Licorice can be purchased as the whole dried root, sliced, or powdered.

🌿 When my children were small, they were given four or five inch pieces of licorice root at their school’s Halloween festival, as a healthy, sweet treat. They enjoyed chewing on it for weeks. Licorice root cleanses the mouth and teeth and arrests tooth decay because of it’s germicidal action.

🥗 I really thought that I was going to be writing about the fiber in lettuce, but there is so much more!

🥗 Lettuce is one of the most valuable healing foods because of it's high organic water content.

🥗 Lettuce also has nearly all the necessary vitamins.
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