{"id":2282,"date":"2012-07-15T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T05:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2012-07-15T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T05:43:59","slug":"seasonal-fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/seasonal-fruits-and-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2285 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Fruits and Vegetables\" src=\"http:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fruitveg11-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fruitveg11-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fruitveg11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fruitveg11.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>All fruits and vegetables have a particular time of year when they are at their peak (and usually cheapest). Eating according to the seasons is an important part of a healthy and sustainable diet.<\/p>\n<p>Generally fresh food in season is unbeatable in terms of taste, nutritional value and variety. Most out-of-season food has been grown in artificial conditions, picked prematurely and shipped halfway around the world, giving it ample time to deteriorate and lose nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>From now until the end of winter (end of August), the following are some of the fruits and vegetables that are in season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">FRUITS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apples (Granny Smith, Fuji, Delicious, Jonathan&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<li>Avocados<\/li>\n<li>Bananas<\/li>\n<li>Cumquats<\/li>\n<li>Dates<\/li>\n<li>Dragon fruit<\/li>\n<li>Grapefruit<\/li>\n<li>Kiwifruit<\/li>\n<li>Mandarins<\/li>\n<li>Pears (Josephine, Nashis)<\/li>\n<li>Oranges<\/li>\n<li>Tangelos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">VEGETABLES<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beetroot<\/li>\n<li>Broad beans<\/li>\n<li>Broccolini<\/li>\n<li>Brussels Sprouts<\/li>\n<li>Cabbages<\/li>\n<li>Carrots<\/li>\n<li>Cauliflower<\/li>\n<li>Celery<\/li>\n<li>Jerusalem Artichokes<\/li>\n<li>Kohlrabi<\/li>\n<li>Leeks<\/li>\n<li>Okra<\/li>\n<li>Potatoes<\/li>\n<li>Pumpkins<\/li>\n<li>Red capsicum<\/li>\n<li>Rhubarb<\/li>\n<li>Silverbeet<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>Wild rocket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, there is a large variety of fresh produce to choose from. To maintain a healthy diet, you should aim to eat as many different colours of fruits and vegetables as possible each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All fruits and vegetables have a particular time of year when they are at their peak (and usually cheapest). Eating according to the seasons is an important part of a healthy and sustainable diet.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[60,61],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthjigsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}