Summer is officially here, and strawberries are a delightful addition to your favourite salad, pie, dessert, or simply enjoyed on their own.
About the Strawberry Fruit
Strawberries are not true berries botanically. In botany, a berry is defined as a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
You might be surprised to learn that grapes, currants, cucumbers, persimmons, bananas, eggplants, tomatoes, and avocados are all classified as berries. Our beloved strawberry, on the other hand, is considered a false fruit or pseudocarp by botanists. Each strawberry is actually a multiple fruit, consisting of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.
Nutritious low calorie, hydrating fruit is perfect for Okanagan Summers!
| Strawberries are an excellent source of vitamin C. Eight medium-sized strawberries provide more vitamin C than an orange. Strawberries are perennial, meaning they can live for more than two years, and can produce fruit year after year. The average strawberry has about 200 seeds on its outer surface. Each of these seeds is technically an achene, a type of dry, one-seeded fruit. Strawberries have been cultivated for thousands of years and were first grown in France in the late 14th century. The modern garden strawberry is a hybrid of two wild species. Strawberries are about 91% water, making them a hydrating and low-calorie snack. |
Avoid Pesticides
Since strawberries are at the top of the “Dirty Dozen” list for pesticides, be sure to buy yours at our co-op – they are organically grown without any pesticides and as local as we can make them! Add them to your summer days as a healthy, hydrating snack .